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Strengthening the Diagnostics Transport Network in Liberia through strengthening a coordinated national diagnostic network across 15 counties of Liberia.

Award Number: NU19GH001627
ORGANIZATION: COORDINATING OFFICE OF GLOBAL HEALTH
OPDIV: CDC
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Riders Liberia sample transport system has played a critical role in supporting the laboratory diagnostics systems in Liberia for timely disease detection and response activities, in breaking the chain of transmission of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) during the 2014-2016 outbreak. According to Riders monthly reports (September 2015-March 2016) the number of samples reached peak point of 5,053 samples transported in the month of September 2015 alone during the peak of the heightened EVD surveillance. Post Ebola outbreak, the sample transport system by Riders Liberia was leveraged to carry specimens for other diseases of outbreak potential, which enabled MoH and health partners to control other disease outbreaks at source and neutralize other public health threats including but not limited to outbreaks of meningococcal disease, Lassa fever, yellow fever, shigellosis, measles and many more. The system has been highly acclaimed nationally by the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), The County Health Teams, MoH and Local partners in Liberia including WHO as a robust, flexible specimen transport system, strengthening laboratory diagnostics for effective and efficient detection of priority diseases by successfully sustaining a network of health facilities-laboratory linkages. It has also been recognised as a success story by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Global Health Securities Agenda (GHSA in 2018). The system has already proven to be timely in transporting specimens across all the 15 counties of Liberia. Before Riders, only 25% of samples reached laboratories within 24 hours using a collection of expensive models including helicopters and a chain of uncoordinated vehicles. Now, an average of 80% of transported samples reach laboratories within 24hrs and the remaining reaching their designated laboratories within 48hrs and within 72 hours of collection. The purpose of this project is to improve, implement, strengthen and continuously improve the currently running flexible national diagnostic sample transport network system across all 15 counties of Liberia for continued timely detection and control of public health threats and disease outbreaks and progressive capacity building, paving the way for the transition of the transport diagnostic network for full Government of Liberia ownership for sustained linkages between health facilities and laboratories, to improve health systems capacity to detect, respond and control public health threats quickly, thereby decreasing transmission of diseases in the communities. The short-term outcomes that we would expect to see would be: 1) Increased laboratory diagnostic testing for specimens collected across Liberia; 2) Improved rapid detection of Liberia-designated priority diseases; 3) Reduced time to rule out priority diseases for patients to receive proper medical care. Over the entire project period of five years, we would expect the medium to longer-term outcomes to be: 1) Sustained specimens transport networks/linkages between health facilities and laboratories; 2) Decreased transmission of diseases in communities As the landscape for Liberia’s health system is rapidly changing, we will need to focus not only on our current performance, but in building sustainability in coordination with MoH and NPHIL for long-term diagnostic transport network success.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2024	2023	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	5	11/15/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2024	2022	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	5	11/15/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2024	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	5	11/15/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2024	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	5	11/15/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $800,000 )
2023	2023	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	5	7/30/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$800,000
2023	2022	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	5	7/30/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2023	2022	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	4	11/28/2022	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2023	2022	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	02	4	1/19/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2023	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	5	7/30/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2023	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	4	11/28/2022	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2023	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	02	4	1/19/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2023	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	5	7/30/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2023	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	4	11/28/2022	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2023	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	02	4	1/19/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $800,000

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $850,000 )
2022	2022	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	4	7/21/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$850,000
2022	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia				LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	3	12/17/2021	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2022	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	4	7/21/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2022	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province			LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	4	7/21/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2022	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia				LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	3	12/17/2021	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $850,000

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $849,999 )
2021	2021	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia				LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	3	8/19/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$849,999
2021	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia				LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	3	8/19/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $849,999

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $1,313,940 )
2020	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province	postal_code		LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	2	8/5/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$1,163,940
2020	2020	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia		1000		LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	02	1	8/4/2020	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$150,000
2020	2019	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia		1000		LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	01	1	12/5/2019	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $1,313,940

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $1,560,000 )
2019	2019	RIDERS FOR HEALTH LIBERIA	D89 Congo Town Back road	Monrovia	province	postal_code		LBR	Protecting and Improving Health Globally: Building and Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems, Capacity and Security	00	1	8/30/2019	NEW	$1,560,000
														Subtotal = $1,560,000

Grand Total All Awards = $5,373,939

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Strengthening the Diagnostics Transport Network in Liberia through strengthening a coordinated national diagnostic network across 15 counties of Liberia.

Award Number: NU19GH001627

ORGANIZATION: COORDINATING OFFICE OF GLOBAL HEALTH

OPDIV: CDC

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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