ViiV Healthcare announced today that it has awarded £1 million to 82 projects in 21 countries across the globe aimed at improving the health and welfare of women, children, and families affected by HIV in small grants from the Positive Action for Children’s Fund. With this large number of smaller community grants, the Positive Action for Children Fund hopes to stimulate grassroots community action in support of global PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) community efforts to eliminate vertical transmission of HIV. Such work is closely aligned with the World Health Organisation’s vision for addressing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and works toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals set to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and combat spread of HIV.
This announcement is directly supportive of the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV infections among Children by 2013 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive as set out by the UNAIDS convened Global Task Team, announced on June 08 2011. The plan sets out the following key principles for success: women living with HIV are at the center of the response, country ownership – i.e. responses designed, developed and delivered by local communities, leveraging synergies linkages and integration for improved sustainability & shared responsibility and specific accountability – between families, communities and countries.
This new call for proposals aims to support a broader mix of organisations with a focus on the priority issues in the priority countries to address mother to child transmission of HIV. In particular they have prioritized 14 countries for PMTCT interventions: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Burundi, Chad, Tanzania and India. Projects range from £3000 to £20,000.
ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action for Children Fund is committed to fund $48 million on community based PMTCT interventions through 2015 and will have a targeted spending pattern -- at least 80 percent will support projects focused on sub-Saharan Africa, while up to 20 percent may be dispersed to projects focused elsewhere. To qualify, at least 85 percent of the project’s budget must be spent in the targeted country.
ViiV Healthcare is a global specialist HIV company established by GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK.L) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) to deliver advances in treatment and care for people living with HIV.
To find out more about the grantees, please go here.
ViiV Healthcare Awards Small Grants from Positive Action for Children Fund
June 20th, 2011
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