Application Guidelines for Medical and Support Services & Publicity and Public Education
Para. 55: (e) In conducting procurement by using the grant from ATF, the grantee should take into account its continuing duty to safeguard national security and not to engage in any acts or activities which endanger national security. The management of the grantee should exercise professional judgment, sensitivity and prudence in assessing any potential national security risks or issues that may be involved in every stage of the procurement. The duty for the grantee to safeguard national security is a continuing one that subsists throughout every stage of the entire procurement process, including the pre-contract award stage and the contract management stage after contract award. The grantee shall ensure that each of its procurement documents incorporates specific clauses to disqualify tenderers and to terminate the contract made pursuant to the procurement in the interest of national security.
Para. 90: The grantee shall ensure that in performing their service and carrying out their functions in expending the grant, it complies with all Hong Kong laws (including the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the laws of the Hong Kong in relation to the safeguarding of national security), regulations and by-laws, including without limitation, all those relating to employment terms and conditions.
Para. 91: The grantee shall at all times follow the usual code of practice on confidentiality of personal data and comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance relating to the protection of personal data of individuals. Where necessary, prescribed consent from the data subjects shall first be obtained before disclosure of personal data to other parties, say publication and dissemination of reports containing personal data of the project beneficiaries, either in hardcopy or softcopy to members of the public.
Para. 97: (a) the grantee or any of its employees, agents and sub-contractors who are involved in any manner and capacity in the project has engaged or is engaging in any act or activity that constitutes or causes, or is likely to constitute or cause, the occurrence of offences endangering national security or that would otherwise be contrary to the interest of national security;
We are now inviting next round of applications for the AIDS Trust Fund. The deadline is on 31 July 2024 (Wednesday). Please refer to the Application Guidelines for Medical and Support Services & Publicity and Public Education for details.
Annex Pricing Standards for Applications to ATF (Updated in July 2023)
Based on the Recommended HIV/AIDS Strategies for Hong Kong 2022-2027, higher funding priorities will be accorded to applications targeted at the six high risk groups.The six high risk groups namely: -