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In March 2010, ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action for Children Fund requested proposals from NGOs around the world for projects focused on the integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services leading to improved access to and continuity of services for men and women at risk of HIV or living with HIV and for projects support of infants, children and adolescents living with HIV and their families within their communities, promoting a family-centred approach. Now, in a recent press release, ViiV has announced that it has selected 12 projects from over 750 proposals received from organizations from 61 countries.
The organizations which have received the grant support for “strengthening and integration of primary HIV prevention, HIV services and sexual and reproductive health services leading to improved access to and continuity of services for men and women at risk of HIV or living with HIV” are:
- Ntankah Village Women Common Initiative Group, Republic of Cameroon
- Public Health Research Institute of India
- Partners in Health, Lesotho
- Women Friendly Initiative (WFI), Nigeria
- International Medical Foundation (IMF) and the National Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA), Uganda
- Wakiso Integrated Rural Development Association (WIRDA), Uganda
- Miroi Growers Cooperative Society, Uganda
- Hodi, Zambia
The organizations receiving grants for project that “support of infants, children and adolescents living with HIV and their families within their communities, promoting a family-centred approach
- Rajasthan Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (RNP+), India
- Save the Children, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kenya AIDS Intervention Prevention Project Group (KAIPPG)
- IPPF and Family Health Options Kenya
More details about what kind of projects have been funded are lacking. However, ViiV has granted over £3.6 million amongst these twelve organizations. This fund is part of the £50 million grant allocated for a period of 10 years, starting from 2009 to address HIV transmission from mother-to-child, to improve the health and wellbeing of women, children and their families around the globe.
