AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Emergency Relief Funds (ERF)

base ADAP ERF awards upon your ability to successfully demonstrate need for additional funding. An external objective review committee (ORC) will evaluate this need based on criteria published in this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), with priority given to addressing existing waiting lists. HRSA first funded the ADAP ERF initiative in August 2010, when numerous states/territories were experiencing ADAP waiting lists. At the time of this NOFO publication, there are no ADAP waiting lists. States/territories that establish a waiting list after the publication of this NOFO must report the waiting list to HRSA immediately and use funding awarded under this NOFO to remove clients from the waiting list. Previously, eligibility for this funding was limited to states/territories that had historically imposed waiting lists. HRSA continues to anticipate an increase in potential clients in need of ADAP services due to loss of income and/or loss of health care coverage among people with HIV. States/territories may use ERF funds to address current or projected increases in treatment needs aligned with ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. or other unanticipated increases in the number of clients in their ADAP.