Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO3240

The Crusted Scabies Elimination Program (CSEP) provides a coordinated approach to the detection, management and treatment of Crusted Scabies (CS) in primary health care services.

This involves working primarily in the Northern Territory, with local health providers and hospitals to improve services, provide continuity of care, and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services to develop and embed CS elimination strategies.

The two objectives of the program are to: 

1. Promote and advocate for improved processes around Crusted Scabies detection and diagnosis; and

2. Prevent the recurrence of CS in clients who have been successfully treated.

The CSEP aims to eliminate this disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote northern Australia by the end of 2022.

Advocacy around improved processes for the detection and diagnosis of CS is a key focus of CSEP, to ensure treatment for any newly identified people with Crusted Scabies, and those who may have a recurrence. Stakeholders involved in improving the health and wellbeing of people living in remote Indigenous communities will be provided with detection and diagnosis information about Crusted Scabies.

The other key focus will be on prevention, by providing education and resourcing on the creation of Scabies Free Zones, with the aim of curbing scabies and therefore keeping Crusted Scabies under control. This will involve recruiting and training a small Indigenous workforce to spread the Scabies Free Zone messages within the remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory. Resources on this message will also be prepared and distributed in Western Australia and Queensland.

This is a closed non-competitive grant opportunity. One Disease Limited (ABN 57 162 909 284) is eligible to receive funding.

$1,500,000.00

There is no need to submit an application for this grant opportunity.