For the idea of the application, you have to choose at least one of these 5 topics recommended by the PACF fund:
- Community interventions to overcome the causes of loss to follow-up of people of the HIV prevention services;
- Community advocacy for gender equity in education and health: Projects may promote women’s and girls’ accesses to education or health services;
- Preventing unintended pregnancies: Projects may improve women’s knowledge of living with HIV and accessing of sexual and reproductive health services;
- Community intervention to keep HIV negative: Project may ensure that women stay HIV negative with special emphasis on women planning to have families, pregnant women and new mothers;
- Early infant diagnosis: Projects may reduce the numbers of infants who go undiagnosed or who diagnose too late for successful care and treatment of HIV positive.
You may take a look at those projects (grantees) funded in the past years here, and simply apply one of them to your community if it did not happen there. You will have 250 words to describe the reasons that you pick the topic, and once the topic is chosen, the title and other sections can be written.
The problem statement (250 words) is critical in the proposal because it is the place in which you try to convince the reviewers that the project is worth doing. You can give a precise description of the problematic situation by using quotes, live examples, references, research data and published articles which would be very helpful. You also need to explain how your ideas and solutions to the problem are culturally informed, and are designed to address the needs of children in the HIV active area. Giving evidences and facts from local will greatly support your application.
This is an example of problem statement: the AIDS educational rates in kids and youths in Bandundu are very low compared to other cities and countries (give the low number or percentage), which has impacts on the higher HIV infections locally. Our solutions are collaborating with the local communities (give the names) to establish a network of educational centers and health help centers with ultra-low cost handsets to women and girls. The solutions will increase the AIDS knowledge and the HIV preventions and treatment educational levels among kids, youth, and women in Bandundu.
