ACE
Africa UK
ACE Africa is a non-profit organisation established
in Kenya in 2003, in the UK in 2005 and in Tanzania and the USA
in 2007, and is dedicated to reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS on
the lives of the millions of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
living in rural communities of East Africa. ACE Africa works to
empower communities across the following key areas, to provide support
to children and people affected/infected with AIDS and their carers:
Building sustainable nutritional capacity and livelihoods; Building
community ability to protect the health and rights of children and
women affected/infected by HIV/AIDS; Providing psychosocial support
and direct aid. ACE Africa’s ten-year model is holistic and
recognised as ‘best practice’. ACE is recognised as
the leading NGO in Western Kenya for OVC programming and is the
Kenya identified partner for the Duke University (USA), 5 year international
research project, Positive Outcomes for Orphans (POFO).
Website: http://www.ace-africa.org
ACORD
ACORD is currently restructuring its 45 separate interventions in
Africa into 10-12 larger area programmes and five cross cutting
thematic programmes. It is also in the process of moving its strategic
leadership, identity and management from the UK to Africa. In terms
of its programme of work ACORD and its partners have identified
five critical areas for change: strengthening civil society, creating
the conditions for resolving conflicts, overcoming gender and other
forms of discrimination, improving livelihoods, and addressing the
causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS.
Website: http://www.acord.org.uk
Act4Africa
Act4Africa is a charity that funds local teams of Africans to deliver
HIV/AIDS prevention education to 100,000 young people each year.
Act4Africa are a small Manchester based charity that aims to reduce
the threat of HIV/AIDS in Africa by delivering interactive health
education programmes to young people in Africa using drama and sports.
Act4Africa also provide mobile testing and counselling services
and spend time with, and aim to enrich the lives of those for whom
education has come too late. Act4Africa been running for over 10
years and have so far delivered programmes to 1million young Africans.
Website: http://www.act4africa.org
Action
for Southern Africa (ACTSA)
ACTSA campaigns with the people of Southern Africa as they strive
to build a better future. Working for peace, democracy and development
across the region, ACTSA is the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid
Movement. ACTSA influences decision-makers in Britain and Europe
on policies that affect Southern Africa. It keeps the region in
the public and political spotlight through lobbying, publication
of reports and briefings and media work.
Web: http://www.actsa.org
Email: actsa@actsa.org
Advantage Africa
Advantage Africa supports the ideas and work of inspirational people
in Africa to overcome poverty and disadvantage. We work in close
partnership with determined individuals and community groups, supporting
their ideas and plans so that disadvantaged people can improve their
lives. This particularly includes people who, alongside poverty,
face prejudice, stigma and marginalisation as a result of disability
or HIV/AIDS. Advantage Africa provides encouragement, resources,
advice and training as well as links to other sources of knowledge,
skills or funds.
Website: www.advantageafrica.org
Africa Now
Africa Now is an international development agency that supports
enterprising solutions to poverty in Africa, making markets work
for small-scale African producers. We support farmers and small
business in efforts to increase productivity, and introduce higher
value products and processes. Most importantly, we work to identify
and develop markets for those products. Africa Now links producers
and small businesses to leasing and credit schemes, and training
services, on issues from financial management to the requirements
of international trade standards and codes. Africa Now also works
to advocate ethical, fairer trade practices with international companies
and their suppliers, undertaking ethical audits and producer training
programmes.
Website: www.africanow.org
Email: info@africanow.org
African Health Policy
Network
The African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) is
the only national African organisation of its kind. Its major focus
is on HIV and the Sexual Health of Africans in the UK. The AHPN
is an alliance of African community - based organisations and their
supporters working for fair policies for people living with HIV/AIDS
in the UK. Our Projects Include:
* Policy, Advocacy & Representation
* Capacity Building & Mentoring
* Managing the National African HIV Prevention Programme (NAHIP)
Website: http://www.ahpn.org/
Email: info@AHPN.org
African Medical
and Research Foundation (AMREF) UK
AMREF is Africa’s largest indigenous health charity, and for
45 years in partnership with local communities, governments and
donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa’s health
problems. AMREF UK was established in 1965 to support the work of
AMREF in Africa. AMREF’s HIV/AIDS work includes building and
strengthening the capacity of the public and private sector by scaling-up
successful HIV/AIDS interventions, providing training, distance
education and other interventions.
Website: http://www.amref.org/uk
Email: info@amrefuk.org
African
Pulse
The African Pulse is a a UK charity working in South Africa. It
provides an educational package using life skills to give support
to teachers working alongside 9-13 year old learners in South Africa.
Its non-judgemental, multi-media approach utilises a CD-ROM, an
activity/comic book, video and live drama in the Life Orientation
curriculum. Through animated stories, games and interactive classroom
work, the programme addresses issues around growing up, relationships,
healthy living, sex and HIV & AIDS, with a focus on promoting
positive values and attitudes. Our Vision: The African Pulse equiups
young people to make informed life choices in a world affected by
HIV & AIDS. Our Mission: To provide schools and communities
in Africa with innovative, relevant teaching tools and skills to
promote healthy living. We will achieve this in partnership with
stakeholders to ensure an inclusive, far-reaching and sustainable
approach.
Website: www.theafricanpulse.com
Aids
Orphan
On the 23rd of December 2009
Aids Orphan was born in response to the world’s biggest forgotten
crisis. By the end of the decade the United Nations estimates that
there will be some 25 million children who will have lost one or
both parents to Aids. Children orphaned by the virus have not only
lost the love and protection of their parents, the vast majority
of them are left to struggle alone, many with younger siblings to
care for in desperate poverty and with the discrimination and stigma
an HIV status brings. Many children are abandoned and often extended
family cannot and will not look after them. At Aids Orphan we believe
in helping where we can. Our mission is to reach out and change
lives; our ambition is as big as the pandemic itself. As a first
step, we are establishing a global community of people who share
our drive and determination to do everything we can to help children
who have been orphaned by the virus. Currently we have a project
in Mombasa where we have nurses who we have trained to deliver counselling
to the older children who need to be informed of their status.
Website: http://www.aidsorphan.net
All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS is a backbench Group of
MPs and Peers in the UK Parliament at Westminster who are concerned
about both the devastation that HIV/AIDS is causing in developing
countries and as an issue in the UK that affects their constituents.
‘We believe that HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious threats
facing the world at the beginning of the 21st century and it is
vital that parliamentarians, in industrialised as well as developing
countries, play our part in addressing the epidemic. In particular
we have an important role in ensuring that laws and policies are
respectful of human rights and promote public health.’
Website: http://www.appg-aids.org.uk
Email: info@appg-aids.org.uk
AVERT
AVERT is a leading UK based AIDS Education and Medical Research
charity. They are responsible for a wide range of education and
medical research work with the overall aim of: preventing people
from becoming infected with HIV; improving the quality of life of
those already infected; through medical research working to develop
a cure for AIDS. There are currently three main areas to AVERT's
education work. These are the AVERT web site, the AVERT AIDS Information
Service, and the "AVERTING AIDS and HIV " international
grant scheme.
Website: http://www.avert.org
Email: info@avert.org
Baby Milk Action
Baby Milk Action is a non-profit organisation which aims to save
lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate
infant feeding. Baby Milk Action works within the global network
the International Baby Food Action Network (a network of over 150
citizens groups in over 90 countries) to strengthen independent,
transparent and effective controls on the marketing of the baby
feeding industry.
Website: http://www.babymilkaction.org
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross helps people in crisis,
whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global network of
volunteers, responding to natural disasters, conflicts and individual
emergencies. We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to
prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities.
And when the crisis is over, we help people to recover and move
on with their lives.
Website: http://www.redcross.org.uk
British Volunteer
Agencies Liaison Group (BVALG)
BVALG links the work of UK-based volunteer sending agencies. BVALG
aims to share the experience of its members and promote discussion
about topics related to their work in development. BVALG members
are: BESO, CIIR/ICD, International Service, Skillshare International,
Volunteer Services Overseas. (See also the individual listings for
these organisations.)
Email: shobbs@unais.org.uk
CARE
International
CARE International UK is a member of
the global CARE International confederation of twelve member organisations
linked to 70 country offices across the developing world. CARE International
has adopted a refined livelihood security model that embraces a
rights based approach (RBA) in its programming worldwide, and is
committed to addressing the root causes of poverty, vulnerability
and marginalisation. CARE International has a portfolio of over
120 HIV and AIDS projects benefiting over 7 million people in 39
countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. In 2000,
CARE identified HIV and AIDS as a key programme focus area and in
2004, HIV and AIDS was selected as a global CARE advocacy theme.
Web: www.careinternational.org.uk
Catholic Agency
for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
CAFOD is the official agency of the Catholic
Church in England and Wales for overseas development and relief
and a member of Caritas Internationalis, a worldwide confederation
of Catholic relief and development organisations. CAFOD works in
partnership with local and national organisations on over 1000 programmes
in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, and has been
responding to HIV and AIDS since 1986. HIV is one of four priority
issues for CAFOD in its current 2005-2010 framework.
General Website: http://www.cafod.org.uk
HIV/AIDS Website: http://www.cafod.org.uk/about_cafod/what_we_do/hivaids
Email: hiv@cafod.org.uk
Christian Aid
Christian Aid is a leading development agency based in the UK and
Republic of Ireland, working through 32 overseas offices across
47 countries in the South to support 670 local implementing partners
(of which 290 on HIV) on programmes, advocacy and campaigning. Christian
Aid’s HIV strategy focuses on promoting the inclusive rights
of people with HIV; challenging stigma and discrimination; providing
comprehensive evidence-based HIV prevention; and developing and
delivering comprehensive support and care programmes that fully
meet the social, emotional and medical needs of people with, and
affected by, HIV. Christian Aid advocates strongly for the meaningful
participation of PLHIV to lead on an effective and appropriate response.
Emphasis is also placed on working in post-conflict and fragile
states.
Website : http://www.christian-aid.org.uk
Email: info@christian-aid.org
Christian HIV/AIDS
Alliance
The Christian HIV/AIDS Alliance is a network of Christian agencies,
churches and individuals praying and working together to serve and
empower those affected by HIV and AIDS. The Christian HIV/AIDS Alliance
(CHAA) exists to facilitate a compassionate, strategic Christian
response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ‘’CHAA recognises
the invaluable part that the Christian community has to play in
bringing life in the face of death and hope in the face of despair,
through servant-hearted advocacy and action.’’
Website: www.chaa.info
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland HIV
Programme began in 2002 (as the HIV/AIDS Project), with a remit
to break the silence surrounding HIV and AIDS, and to support partner
projects in Scotland and overseas. It is now supporting 29 projects
in 15 countries with small grants, and encourages congregations
within the Church of Scotland to raise funds, challenge stigma and
discrimination and advocate on behalf of people living with HIV.
It has raised over £1million since it began, and is working
towards the Church of Scotland becoming an HIV-competent church.
Website: www.churchofscotland.org.uk/speak_out
Community Health Action Trust (CHAT)
Community Health Action Trust's
primary aim is to educate individuals from Black &
Minority Ethnic communities on how to protect themselves, their
partners and family from getting infections and how to cope and
live with the debilitating effects of the infections. Where there
is infection, we counsel, advise and support the individuals and
family to address the issues. Where there is need for referrals,
we facilitate referrals to places such as the local genito-urinary
medicine (GUM clinics), Social Services and other partners.
Website: http://www.chatrust.com/index.php
Consortium
for Street Children
The Consortium for Street Children was established in 1993, and
is a network of over 40 UK-based NGOs, working to promote and protect
the rights of street children all over the world. We are dedicated
to the welfare and rights of street living and working children
and children at risk of taking to street life and focus on 5 key
themes: Violence, Participation, Education, Prevention and Early
Intervention and HIV/AIDS.
Website: www.streetchildren.org.uk
Constela Futures Group (Europe)
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The
Crescent
The Crescent supports and cares both by and for people living with
HIV/AIDS in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, their partners, families
and friends. One of the Crescent’s aims is to continue to
promote unprejudiced care, attitudes and knowledge towards HIV/AIDS
in all communities we work in through social support, health promotion,
HIV trainings, complementary therapies and advocacy for the rights
of PLWHA.
Email: info@thecrescent.org.uk
Website: http://www.thecrescent.org.uk/
Department for International
Development (DFID)
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DHIVERSE
DHIVERSE is an HIV and sexual health charity delivering prevention
and support services within Cambridgeshire and some surrounding
areas. DHIVERSE was established as Cambridge AIDS Helpline in 1986
and as such is one of the longest established HIV charities in the
UK. Specific projects include Dimensions 4 Men working with gay
and bisexual men, and the Spectrum project, which works with the
Black and Ethnic Minority communities. Through the Positive Options
programme a wide range of services are available to people living
with and directly affected by HIV/AIDS. Core to our mission is tackling
stigma, discrimination and the inequalities that impact communities
affected by HIV both in the UK and overseas. Our work includes campaigning,
education lobbying, and awareness raising.
Email info@dhiverse.org.uk
Website: http://www.dhiverse.org.uk/
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial
Fund
The Fund is a grant-giving organisation with UK and International
programmes. We typically fund for three years, giving grants of
between £15,000 to £80,000 per annum. In addition, we
will consider one-off grants for conferences, publications, evaluation
and dissemination within our criteria. The Directors are committed
to a wider policy of strategic support for charitable causes, and
are prepared to be pro-active. In addition, the Fund provide free
meeting facilities and resources in the offices at County Hall to
any organisation in the voluntary sector.
Website: www.theworkcontinues.org.uk
Egmont Trust
The Egmont Trust was established in February 2005 with a central
focus on improving the lives of children affected by HIV and AIDS.
It works through partner organisations in southern and eastern Africa
to address a wide range of HIV-related issues faced by children
including tackling abuse and sexual violence; improving nutrition
and food security; promoting education and life skills; and ensuring
access to good quality care and treatment.
Email: info@egmonttrust.org
Website: www.egmonttrust.org
EveryChild
Across 18 countries we work with vulnerable children to enable them
to grow up free from disease, poverty and exploitation as valued
individuals. We work with communities and governments across Africa,
Asia, the former Soviet Union, South East Europe, Latin America
and the Caribbean, to ensure that every child has the right to an
education, healthcare and to grow up in a loving family environment
with a secure future.
Web: www.everychild.org.uk
Friends of
Treatment Action Campaign (FOTAC)
FOTAC is a UK-based charity fighting on issues of HIV and AIDS.
Its primary function is to act in support of the Treatment Action
Campaign (South Africa), a grassroots organisation with thousands
of members which campaigns for greater affordability and access
to HIV treatment for all, and for the empowerment of people affected
by HIV and AIDS. FOTAC also seeks to sensitize and educate people
in the UK about the AIDS crisis in southern Africa, working particularly
with schools, colleges, businesses and unions. We also seek to bring
pressure to bear, where appropriate, in UK and European parliamentary
and governmental forums in relation to barriers to treatment, the
international movement of African healthcare professionals, and
other matters open to their influence.
Website: www.fotac.org
Email: info@fotac.org
Global Dialogues
Global Dialogues is a charity dedicated to promoting excellence
in education and communication about HIV/AIDS. It coordinates "Scenarios
from Africa" (formerly "Scenarios from the Sahel"),
a community mobilization, education and media project being carried
out with and for young people, primarily in West Africa. The project
gives young people an exciting opportunity to educate themselves
and others about HIV/AIDS by inviting them to participate in the
production of a series of short fiction films. The films are distributed
on a non-commercial basis across the Africa for broadcast and for
use as discussion tools by organisations and schools.
Website: http://www.globaldialogues.org
Email: info@globaldialogues.org
HelpAge International
HelpAge International is a global network of not-for-profit organisations
working with and for disadvantaged older people worldwide to achieve
a lasting improvement in the quality of their lives. Their members
and partner organisations work in over 70 countries, on practical
projects and policy work. HelpAge operates regional development
centres in Africa, East and Central Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin
America, the Caribbean. HelpAge’s HIV work addresses the many
issues of older people as both affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.
Website: http://www.helpage.org
Email: hai@helpage.org
Help the Hospices'
UK forum for hospice and palliative care worldwide
Forum members aim to improve the extent and quality of hospice and
palliative care. The forum aims to have a facilitative and enabling
role that covers:
· the development of a UK network of interested people and
organisations
· facilitating “twinning” arrangements between
hospice services in the UK and overseas
· Funding training and education activities and volunteer
placements
· information-giving e.g. about funding opportunities
It also advocates with Government and other international organisations
bodies about the work of UK forum members and the role of hospice
and palliative care. The UK forum secretariat is funded by Help
the Hospices. Membership is free and benefits include a bi-monthly
e-mail service containing news and information, access to training
events; and free copies of UK forum publications (e.g. a policy
paper on HIV/AIDS and palliative care).
Website http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk
Website: http://www.hospiceinformation.info
HIV/AIDS Association
of Zambia (HAAZ)
HIV/AIDS Association of Zambia is a charitable organisation formed
to address the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Zambia and among the
Zambian community living in the UK. Providing culturally and linguistically
appropriate HIV/AIDS and sexual health prevention services; advancing
public understanding of HIV/AIDS; providing a safe place for HIV+
men and women to come and share their experiences. HAAZ now extends
its services to all Africans living in the UK. HAAZ also undertakes
international projects and is currently working with Poverty Relief
Organisation (PRO) in Zambia.
Website: http://www.haaz.org.uk
Email: admin@haaz.org.uk
HIV
i-Base
HIV i-Base is a treatment activist group, HIV-positive led and committed
to providing timely HIV treatment information to HIV-positive people
and to health care professionals. i-Base was formed in April 2000
by the former publications, editorial and meetings team from the
AIDS Treatment Project, London. All resources are produced with
the involvement of HIV-positive people and are reviewed by a medical
advisory group. Medical consultants are listed separately for each
publication. All resources, including treatment guides and the website,
have been reviewed by both medical advisors and people living with
HIV.
Website: http://i-base.info
Hope
for Children
HOPE's aims and objectives are to assist children, who suffer through
being handicapped, orphaned, poor and exploited, in particular those
living in developing countries. This is achieved through providing,
promoting and advancing children's rights to basic necessities,
including education and health care, aimed at sustaining their long
term development.
Website: http://www.hope-for-children.org/
Email: hope@hope-for-children.co.uk
Hope HIV
Hope HIV helps African children who have lost their parents to AIDS
by providing them with the support, affection and the encouragement
they need to re-build their lives. Hope HIV works with partners
in Africa that provide care for children orphaned by AIDS. Education,
skills training, recreational camps, residential facilities, counselling
and advice to community workers are among the services that these
projects provide in their communities.
Website: http://www.hopehiv.org
Email: info@hopehiv.org
ImpAcTAIDS
ImpAcTAIDS (Campaign for Improved Access to Treatment for AIDS in
resource poor countries) was formed to raise awareness of the treatment
issue and to campaign for urgent research and funding where the
most benefit can be achieved in the global fight against AIDS. To
promote serious consideration of the economic, public health and
moral arguments in favour of improving access to treatment for AIDS
in resource poor countries. To press for well-funded, large-scale,
multi-centre treatment trials to work out the practicalities of
implementing AIDS treatment programmes. To complement the work of
other organisations striving to address the combined effects of
poverty and AIDS in the developing world.
Website: http://www.impactaids.org.uk/
Email: impactaidsuk@hotmail.com
Institute for International Health
and Development
Queen Margaret University
College, Edinburgh
Institute for International Health and Development (formerly Centre
for International Health) was founded in 1993 as a multi-disciplinary
centre for education, research and consultancy supporting international
health development in low and middle income countries. The approach
of IIHD is characterised by an emphasis on social and organisational
development issues within the process of health systems reform and
development. Working with a wide range of partner institutions and
agencies - international and local - IIHD seeks to promote study
of key issues impacting international health policy and practice.
E-mail: OObrien@QMUC.ac.uk
Website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/iihd/
Interact
Worldwide
Interact Worldwide works to ensure all individuals, in particular
the poor and marginalised, are empowered to enact their human rights
with regard to sexual and reproductive health and comprehensive
HIV/AIDS services, within the framework of poverty reduction. Through
partnership projects and contracted technical assistance we support
capacity building, service delivery and advocacy amongst vulnerable
people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In our focus countries,
which include Ethiopia, India, Malawi, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Uganda,
our partners work to advance access, rights, gender equality, quality
or services, the role of civil society, public-private partnership
and sustainability. We work to reduce HIV/AIDS related stigma and
discrimination amoung key populations and support sustained investment
in new HIV prevention technologies, including hosting the UK Campaign
for Microbicides. We undertake policy analysis and advocacy in Europe
as a member of the European Network for Global Health as well as
work through EURONGOS and other Reproductive Health Consortia. Our
policy and advocacy work in the UK is advanced through the Consortium
and Stop AIDS Campaign by co-chairing the Heath Systems Working
Group and chairing the Gender Working Group.
Web: www.interactworldwide.org
International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
IAVI is a global not-for-profit, public-private partnership.
Founded in 1996, IAVI researches and develops AIDS vaccine candidates,
conducts policy analyses and serves as an advocate for the AIDS
vaccine field with offices in the United States, Africa, India and
Europe. IAVI supports a comprehensive approach to HIV and AIDS that
balances the expansion and strengthening of existing HIV prevention
and treatment programmes with targeted investments in new HIV/AIDS
prevention tools. Our mission is to ensure the development of preventive
AIDS vaccines that are not only safe and effective, but also accessible
to all people. To that end, IAVI invests the bulk of its resources
in the research and clinical assessment of candidate vaccines against
strains of HIV that are prevalent in the developing world, where
some 95% of new HIV infections occur.IAVI is a global not-for-profit,
public-private partnership. Founded in 1996, IAVI researches and
develops AIDS vaccine candidates, conducts policy analyses and serves
as an advocate for the AIDS vaccine field with offices in the United
States, Africa, India and Europe. IAVI supports a comprehensive
approach to HIV and AIDS that balances the expansion and strengthening
of existing HIV prevention and treatment programmes with targeted
investments in new HIV/AIDS prevention tools. Our mission is to
ensure the development of preventive AIDS vaccines that are not
only safe and effective, but also accessible to all people. To that
end, IAVI invests the bulk of its resources in the research and
clinical assessment of candidate vaccines against strains of HIV
that are prevalent in the developing world, where some 95% of new
HIV infections occur.
Website: http://www.iavi.org
International
HIV Fund
The IHIVF’s strategic aim is to serve as a ‘fund’
that will support a network of global grassroots organisations addressing
HIV and AIDS among Muslim and mixed communities in countries of
the Middle East, Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Muslim
enclaves in the UK and Europe. We adopt a broad definition of ‘fund’
which is not limited to financial resources, but one that will be
a knowledge centre offering a wider range of resources. The IHIVF
is a fund in the sense that it will be a centre for knowledge, best
practice, training, dialogue and exchange. It will also serve as
a coordinating hub that will broker the provision of needed support,
capacity-building, evidence-based research, and technical assistance
in securing financial support.
Website: http://www.internationalhivfund.org/
International Partnership for Microbicides
The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) was established
to accelerate the development and accessibility of microbicides
to prevent transmission of HIV. The organization's goal is to deliver
a safe and effective microbicide for women in developing countries
as soon as possible. IPM is focused on overcoming the four major
challenges that stand in the way of microbicide development and
distribution. IPM is working to: (1) accelerate product development
by building production and formulation expertise; (2) build clinical
trial capacity in developing countries; (3) establish appropriate
regulatory pathways for microbicide products; and (4) plan for widespread
and affordable distribution of these products. IPM identifies the
most promising technologies and invests its resources to help develop
them into usable products. Through partnership and collaboration,
IPM can accelerate and increase the efficiency of product development
at every stage, including formulation and drug delivery research,
clinical trials and manufacturing. IPM also works to create awareness
and support for microbicides and to pave the way for clinical trials
in developing countries. IPM is actively mobilizing resources and
seeking support from policy makers and advocates at national and
multilateral levels for policies supportive of microbicides.
Web: www.ipm-microbicides.org/
International HIV/AIDS
Alliance
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance was set up to respond to the
need for a specialist, professional intermediary organisation to
work in partnership with non-governmental and community-based organisations
in developing countries, as well as with national governments, private
and public donors and the UN system. The Alliance provides technical
support, often alongside financial support, to in-country intermediary
‘linking organisations’ which, in their turn, provide
financial and/or technical support to NGOs and CBOs in their respective
countries. The Alliance currently has ongoing programmes in 19 countries.
Website: http://www.aidsalliance.org
International Planned
Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
IPPF links Family Planning Associations (FPAs) in over 180 countries
worldwide and is the largest voluntary organization in the world
concerned with family planning and sexual and reproductive health.
IPPF has a commitment to promoting the right of women and men to
decide freely the number and spacing of their children and the right
to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health.
Education is a key focus of IPPF's HIV/AIDS work worldwide. While
many FPAs concentrate on education and counselling as well as the
provision of condoms, some also provide a range of clinical services,
including early detection test and home-based care.
Website: http://www.ippf.org
International Service
International Service recruits skilled and motivated people to work
in locally initiated and managed development projects in West Africa,
Latin America and the Middle East. They act in response to requests
from local organisations for technical skills not available locally.
They aim to promote self-reliance, justice and development in developing
countries through partnership with local organisations.
Website: http://www.internationalservice.org.uk
Email: unais-uk@geo2.poptel.org.uk
Learning for Life
Learning for Life works with local
partners to provide education for children in South Asia. We also
work in UK schools to raise awareness of development issues and
South Asia. LfL works with community-based partners, toward
achieving innovative and sustainable solutions. LfL supports its
partners by providing them with funding, capacity-building skills
and advocacy. LfL educates children and trains teachers in a manner
that is realistic and relevant to their lives.
Website:
www.learningforlifeuk.org/
Leicestershire AIDS
Support Services
An independent voluntary organisation providing services for people
affected by HIV/AIDS in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland
Website: www.lass.org.uk
London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Health Policy Unit
The Unit aims to inform and strengthen the development and implementation
of appropriate health policy and to increase understanding of the
process of policy development, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income
countries. Areas of expertise include comparative health policy
and health systems analysis, health economics and international
public health. The Unit hosts four main Programmes, health economics
and financing, infectious disease policy, conflict and health and
globalisation.
Website: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk
Marie Stopes International
(MSI)
Marie Stopes International and its Partners provide sexual and reproductive
health information and services to communities in 38 countries worldwide,
upholding their right to choose the timing, spacing and size of
their families. MSI's Partners undertake a range of activities including;
family planning, ante-and post-natal care, contraceptive social
marketing, obstetric care, STI prevention and treatment, HIV/AIDS
awareness raising, condom distribution, voluntary counselling and
testing and primary healthcare. Centre-based and outreach activities
ensure that sexual and reproductive health information and services
are accessible when and where they are needed, for example in schools,
refugee camps and slum areas. The network of global Partners ensures
the services are sustainable, appropriate and of the highest possible
quality.
Website: http://www.mariestopes.org.uk
Medical Foundation
for AIDS and Sexual Health (MedFASH)
Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health (formerly known as
the BMA Foundation for AIDS) is a charity which works with policy-makers
and health professionals, to promote excellence in the prevention
and management of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
It does this by influencing policy and by providing information
and advice to professionals. Its primary focus is on policy and
practice in the UK. It also engages with UK-based initiatives relating
to the international HIV epidemic. The work of MedFASH is supported
by the British Medical Association.
Website: http://www.medfash.org.uk
Email: enquiries.medfash@medfash.bma.org.uk
Mildmay International
Mildmay specialises in HIV/AIDS care, education and training to
help reduce the level of suffering associated with HIV/AIDS and
to improve the quality of life of adults and children. Mildmay provides
a wide range of palliative care services in the UK. Internationally,
their centre near Kampala in Uganda combines a clinical outpatients
service with a study centre to train people in HIV/AIDS care and
management to Diploma level. They also engage in capacity building
by training local people in income generation and project proposal
skills, and run in-country education/training programmes.
Website: http://www.mildmay.org.uk
NAM
NAM
supports the fight against AIDS with independent, accurate, accessible
and comprehensive information, delivering HIV information across
the world to HIV-positive people and to the professionals who treat,
support and care for them. NAM supports people to: take control
of their lives and healthcare; understand and adhere to their HIV
treatment; live longer, healthier lives. NAM's website is ‘aidsmap’,
with news on developments in the world of HIV which includes completely
searchable databases of HIV treatment and care, worldwide HIV organisation
listings, and a comprehensive range of patient information.
Website: http://www.aidsmap.com
Email: info@nam.org.uk
National
AIDS Trust (NAT)
National AIDS Trust is a leading HIV/AIDS policy and advocacy organisation
working to ensure that people in power take action on HIV both within
the UK and internationally. They work with politicians, business,
statutory agencies in the UK, NGOs, international groups and government
agencies to develop informed responses to the epidemic. NAT ‘s
international policy and advocacy work involves it in partnership
in the Global Business Council on AIDS and the International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative, and membership of the Stop AIDS Campaign and
Global Campaign on Microbicides.
Website: http://www.nat.org.uk
Email: info@nat.org.uk
NAZ Foundation International
Naz Foundation International promotes sexual
health and welfare among males who have sex with males (MSM) and
their partners by providing technical, financial and institutional
support to MSM networks, groups and organisations in South Asia
and other developing regions. Naz works to ensure that issues of
sexuality and all types of sexual practices, and the HIV/AIDS and
human rights issues that arise from them, are appropriately and
adequately addressed in the provision of HIV/AIDS and sexual health
services.
Website: www.nfi.net
Email: london@nfi.net
Open Society Foundation,
London
The Open
Society Institute/Soros Foundation Network as a whole is heavily
involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, at the global, regional,
national, and local levels. The various parts of the Soros Foundations
Network - national foundations, relevant network programs and representative
offices - support and work with NGOs, and bilateral and multilateral
agencies to change policy. The network has supported crucial global
campaigns such as the Panos Institute's global AIDS initiative,
Aidspan's Global Fund Observer, and the Social Science Research
Council's Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Global Transformation, and
is a supporter of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.
These initiatives aim to increase civil society investment in the
fight against HIV/AIDS by promoting public participation, ownership,
resource mobilization and accountability within the response to
the epidemic. We also give support to local organisations in numerous
countries to assist them with their work related to public health
policy - including harm reduction, the fight against TB and HIV/AIDS,
and mental disabilities. As part of this global network,
the London office works closely with the British government and
London-based NGOs, helps build partnerships, serves as a channel
for information and contacts, develops coalitions with long-term
partners, and raises awareness in U.K. policy circles about these
issues. The London office also focuses on the EU as a whole, in
this respect.
Web: www.soros.org/about/foundations/osf_london
Oxfam GB
Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation
dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering
around the world. Oxfam works in over 80 countries with poor women,
children and men, many of whom are affected by or vulnerable to
HIV/AIDS. Oxfam is campaigning cheaper medicines for people in poorer
countries in the belief that ‘an important way to begin helping
the millions of AIDS-sufferers in sub-Sahara Africa is to change
the World Trade Organisation rules to allow countries to produce
or purchase affordable generic drugs.’ They are also campaigning
for the cancellation of poorer countries debt so they can invest
in health, education and development’.
Website: http://www.oxfam.org.uk
Panos Institute
Panos is an international non-profit institute providing information
on global issues with a developing country perspective. Panos-London’s
mission is to work with media and other information actors to enable
developing countries to shape and communicate their own development
agendas through informed public debate. Panos is a leading international
authority on the social and economic causes and consequences of
HIV/AIDS in the developing world. Through a range of publications
and activities with the media, policymakers and non-governmental
organisations, Panos stimulates debate and further research into
the causes and impact of the disease, which in turn leads to the
creation of appropriate strategies to confront these issues at a
national and international level.
Website: http://www.panos.org.uk
Partnership
for Child Development
The Partnership for Child Development
(PCD), formed in 1992, is an organisation committed to improving
the education, health and nutrition of school-age children and youth
in low income countries. PCD works with governments, communities
and agencies to enable effective and sustainable School health and
nutrition (SHN) programmes to be delivered to millions of children
around the world. The Partnership for Child Development, Department
of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of
Medicine, London.
Website: www.child-development.org
Email: pcd@imperial.ac.uk
Plan International (UK)
Plan International works in 45 developing countries worldwide. Their
work influences issues at every level: from a local community's
policy on education to the creation of international coalitions
on children's rights, on the rights of children affected by HIV/AIDS,
and on universal birth registration. Plan is also involved in the
‘Hope for African Children Initiative’, set up to address
the challenges faced by children affected by AIDS. The work includes:
building awareness and reducing stigma; providing better home-care
to families, with increased nutrition and food security; preparing
families for the loss of a parent by providing psychosocial and
economic support to families; securing children’s access to
education and health care following a parents death.
Website: http://www.plan-uk.org
Population Services
International (Europe)
Population Services International/Europe (PSI/Europe) is a non-governmental
organisation that works in social marketing, ‘using private
sector methods to solve public sector problems’. PSI/Europe
works in family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health including
malaria. Its principal activities are: Fundraising for and management
of social marketing projects addressing the health needs of lower-
and middle-income people in developing countries. Liaising with
the European donor community, the European Union and United Nations,
European NGOs and academic bodies. Providing technical support in
behaviour change communications, sustainability planning and project
design, monitoring and evaluation.
Website: http://www.psiwash.org
Email: info@psieurope.org.uk
Progressio
Progressio is an international charity working for justice and the
eradication of poverty. They work in partnership with civil groups
and governments around the world. Through their skillshare programme,
they place experienced professionals to share their expertise with
partners in 11 countries. Formerly: Catholic Institute for International
Relations (CIIR).
Website: http://www.progressio.org.uk
Religions for Peace
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Reproductive Health
Matters
Reproductive Health Matters (RHM) produces a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed
journal and other publications with in-depth coverage of sexual
and reproductive health and rights issues for a multi-disciplinary,
international audience. It is written by and for women's health
advocates, researchers, service-providers and policy-makers. It
offers in-depth analysis of reproductive health matters from a women-centred
perspective and aims to promote laws, policies, research and services
that meet women's reproductive health needs and support women's
right to decide whether, when and how to have children.The journal
is in English, with abstracts in English, French and Spanish. Editions
of the journal are also published in Beijing in Chinese, in Cairo
in Arabic and in Lima in Spanish. Editions in Portuguese and Hindi
are forthcoming mid-2006. RHM 's journal and books are available
in print and online. Books to date have been on users' perspectives
on contraception, safe motherhood initiatives, and abortion law,
policy and practice. We have a CD-Rom with a selection of 46 articles
published in the journal from 1998--2004 on HIV/AIDS, sexual and
reproductive health. Our second CD-Rom will have all the papers
RHM has published on abortion from 1993--2006, due mid-2006.
Website: www.rhmjournal.org.uk
Website: www.rhm-elsevier.com
Email: RHMjournal@compuserve.com
Restless Development
We are the youth-led development agency.
Our mission is to place young people at the forefront of change
and development. We train, educate and inspire young people to lead
development in their countries and communities. We are here to channel
the indisputably positive power of young people to bring about real
progress. All of our work is based on the core recognition that
young people can and must play a lead role in addressing the most
urgent issues affecting our world, and can do so effectively if
given the right opportunities and support.
Website: http://www.restlessdevelopment.org
Email: info@restlessdevelopment.org
RESULTS UK
RESULTS is an international citizens advocacy organisation working
to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. Founded in 1980,
RESULTS supports volunteer advocates across the UK and six other
countries worldwide (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany and
Mexico). As part of a nationwide network citizens are supported
in engaging with the democratic process and raising awareness of
development issues with community leaders, elected representatives
and the media. RESULTS UK is currently working on a tuberculosis
(TB) advocacy project. ‘ACTION’ – Advocacy to
Control TB Internationally – brings together RESULTS partners
in the UK, USA, Canada and Japan alongside national governments
and civil society in three high TB burden countries: India, Indonesia
and Kenya. The project aims to address and reverse the global TB
epidemic through policy analysis, education and high-level advocacy.
With a particular focus on Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, the
ACTION project also educates policy makers on the growing TB/HIV
epidemic and the effectiveness of collaborative TB and HIV services
in high burden countries.
Web: www.results-uk.org
Email: info@results-uk.org
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army acts internationally (in over 40 countries) to
stimulate sustained responses to HIV that can result in learning
within organisations. These are the foundations for going to scale
in the experience of The Salvation Army, and they promote process
analysis of the intricate community and organisational connections
that are vital to addressing the concept of response within countries.
Local initiatives in many countries are supported by the Salvation
Army 'facilitation teams' that work within regions (intercountry)
and internationally. This work seeks to demonstrate across cultures
experientially based learning and application to contribute toward
going to scale.
Website: http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/hivaids
Samaritan’s Purse
Samaritan’s Purse (SP) is a non-profit, Christian organisation
providing emergency relief and development assistance to suffering
people around the world. We are an international organization with
offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland
and the Netherlands. The HIV and AIDS work through Samaritan’s
Purse UK has two regional areas of funding: Eastern Europe/Former
Soviet Union/Central Asia and Africa. In Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union, Samaritan’s Purse has formed an alliance
with Geneva Global to fund HIV/AIDS programmes in these countries.
We partner with local organisations, focusing on prevention, care
and advocacy as well as integrate prevention and care programmes
into our field offices. Samaritan’s Purse’s approach
is to work alongside and build the capacity of the local Church
and community to respond to the impact of HIV and AIDS in their
communities. We believe that the HIV pandemic offers a key opportunity
to demonstrate the compassion of Christ to those that are impacted
by HIV and AIDS.
e-mail: debora.randall@samaritans-purse.org.uk
website: www.samaritanspurse.uk.com
Scottish Catholic International Aid
Fund (SCIAF)
SCIAF is the official aid and international development charity
of the Catholic Church in Scotland. We work in over 20 countries
across Asia, Africa and Latin America, to help some of the poorest
people in the world, regardless of religion, to work their way out
of poverty.
website: http://www.sciaf.org.uk
Skillshare International
Skillshare International works for sustainable development in partnership
with the people and communities of Africa and Asia. They do this
by sharing and developing skills, facilitating organisational effectiveness
and growth. They currently work with partner organisations in nine
countries in Africa and India. The bulk of their work is in education
and vocational training, agriculture, health, HIV and AIDS, engineering
and planning, the environment and income generation. These incorporate
rural development, empowering disadvantaged groups and improving
opportunities for young people.
Website: http://www.skillshare.org
Email: info@skillshare.org
SOS Children’s Villages
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental and
social development organisation, which has been active in the field
of children's needs, concerns and rights since 1949. Its activities
focus on neglected and abandoned children and orphans, as well as
disadvantaged families. SOS Children's Villages carries out its
activities in 132 countries and territories. SOS Children's Villages
makes it possible for children to be part of a family once again
by providing family-based care. Increasingly our focus in sub-Saharan
Africa is the HIV/AIDS crisis and we have comprehensive community
outreach programmes to treat/support/advise and provide health education
to largely child and grandparent–led families affected by
this disease.
Website: http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/
Starfish Greathearts Foundation
Starfish Greathearts Foundation
is a global response to the growing number of children made orphaned
and vulnerable by the impact of HIV/AIDS. As a growing worldwide
community, we are on a passionate quest to change perspectives,
beliefs, and ultimately outcomes. Our aim is to Turn the Tide on
AIDS by showing that there is a way to make a difference; a way
to bring hope where there is only despair, one child at a time.
Starfish currently delivers comprehensive care and development programmes
around health and education to vulnerable orphaned children in South
Africa as well as providing food aid for children and families in
crisis. These vital intervention and development programmes are
delivered through partnerships with non-governmental and community
based organisations in communities across eight out of nine provinces.
Starfish has been instrumental in developing and establishing a
coalition of local NGOs in order to facilitate a nation-wide co-ordinated
holistic response to the needs of children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS
pandemic.
Email: ukinfo@starfishcharity.org
Website: http://www.starfishcharity.org
Strategies for Hope Trust
Founded in 1989 by ActionAid, the Strategies for Hope (SFH) project
produces print and audiovisual materials aimed at promoting ‘good
practice’ in community-based approaches to HIV/AIDS, gender
and sexual health, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The SFH Trust
- an independent, not-for-profit organisation - has managed the
project since July 2003. SFH has produced 16 booklets, five videos,
one DVD, the ‘Stepping Stones’ training package and
a video Facilitator’s Guide. These materials are used - mainly
in sub-Saharan Africa - by NGOs, faith-based organisations, community
groups, health providers, HIV/AIDS support groups, schools and government
HIV/AIDS programmes.
Website: www.stratshope.org
Email: sfh@stratshope.org
Street Child Africa
Website: http://www.streetchildafrica.org.uk
Email: info@streetchildafrica.org.uk
Support for Africa
The objectives of Support For Africa are to inform the people of
the developed world of the terrible effect that AIDS is having on
the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and to raise funds to provide practical
medical help and create awareness throughout Africa of the devastation
caused by the disease in order to stop its inexorable increase.
Website: http://www.supportforafrica.org/
Email: info@supportforafrica.org
Tackle Africa
Tackle Africa is a sports-based HIV awareness initiative designed
to reach young people in Africa, through sport, to increase their
understanding of HIV/AIDS and enable them to live safe and healthy
lives.
Email: info@tackleafrica.org
Website: http://www.tackleafrica.org/
Target
Tuberculosis (Target TB)
Target TB is a Brighton based international development charity,
established in 2003 in recognition of the global TB emergency. Our
vision is a world free from TB, and our mission is to address the
health, social and economic impact of the global TB epidemic amongst
vulnerable and marginalised groups. Target TB develops mutually
beneficial partnerships with a range of organisations who share
our vision. Together we focus our efforts on TB prevention and improving
access to high quality diagnosis and treatment. We support TB control
activities which are in line with internationally approved standards
and ensure TB-HIV co-infection and drug-resistance interventions
are mainstreamed throughout our work.
Website: http://www.targettuberculosis.org.uk/
E-mail: info@targettb.org.uk
Tearfund
Tearfund works throughout the world. As part of its strategy, Tearfund
has identified three key areas of intervention: Children at Risk,
assisting children to participate in defining their needs and contribute
to programme planning; Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation, to
help vulnerable communities improve their food security, develop
safe housing, and address environmental issues; Public health, including
HIV/AIDS, supporting communities in managing their own healthcare,
including HIV/AIDS prevention and care, within the context of broader
development initiatives.
Website: http://www.tearfund.org
Email: enquiry@tearfund.org
Terrence Higgins
Trust (THT)
Terrence Higgins Trust is a leading HIV and AIDS charity in the
UK and the largest in Europe. THT provides direct services to the
groups most affected by HIV - gay men and UK African communities.
THT delivers health promotion campaigns and direct services to people
with or affected by HIV, and people at risk.
Website: http://www.tht.org.uk
Topsy Foundation
The Topsy Foundation partners with rural communities, empowering
people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS, through medical
care, social support and skills development. The Topsy Foundation
is a South African NGO and UK registered charity, providing a range
of services to support families and meet the needs and personal
development of orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS.
Additionally, through a skills training programme, they aim to alleviate
poverty and empower women in the communities.
Website: http://www.topsyfoundation.org.uk/
Trócaire
Trócaire takes a dual approach to HIV - addressing it in
all development programmes and supporting partners to ensure that
communities have access to a range of prevention, care and treatment
services and that, injustices that perpetuate the spread of the
virus are challenged. Currently we support seven dedicated HIV programmes
in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our overall objective for our
HIV work is “To reduce vulnerability to HIV and to mitigate
the impact of HIV on poor and marginalised communities”. The
focus on programmes incorporates prevention, treatment, care and
support; Rights of PLHIV; and Addressing gender related vulnerablities
to HIV. In our other programmes sectors such as livelihoods, Trócaire
is assisting partners to modify programmes for a world with AIDS,
as families affected by HIV are often more vulnerable to food shortages.
Programmes are also modified to be appropriate for child headed
households, carers and for people with limited or no assets due
to HIV and AIDS. Trócaire works with organisations that provide
prevention, care and treatment that supports national efforts, deals
with the holistic needs of individuals and the poverty dimension
of the epidemic. Income generating activities, life-skills, psychosocial
support and education are considered integral parts of a holistic
response to HIV. Underpinning all responses is a commitment to address
the gender dimension of the epidemic.
Website: http://www.trocaire.org/
TB Alert
TB Alert is the UK's National and International Tuberculosis charity
- the only British charity working solely on fighting TB in the
UK and overseas. "TB Alert exists to work towards the control
and ultimate eradication of TB by increasing access to effective
treatment for all.” It is understood that this mission will
be achieved through: Advocacy. Promoting awareness of TB. Information
and education. TB projects which demonstrate best practice. Strategic
initiatives. Facilitating learning.
Website: http://www.tbalert.org/
UK Committee for
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
The United Nations Children's Fund, is a global champion
for children's rights, working in over 150 countries and territories
to fulfil children's rights to health and nutrition, education,
emergency relief, protection, and water and sanitation. The UK Committee
for UNICEF is one of 37 National Committees of UNICEF which meet
regularly to share ideas, experiences, and materials among Committees.
UNICEF UK is part of the Stop AIDS Campaign. UNICEF is also running
a global campaign - Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS - over
the next 5 years from 2005 - 2010 to increase access to education,
healthcare and affordable drugs for children and their families
affected by HIV and AIDS.
Website: http://www.unicef.org.uk/aids
Uganda AIDS Action
Fund
Providing education, prevention and advocacy services to the African
community both infected and affected by HIV. Services provided cover
information exchanges, training seminars, peer group work or community/church
work.
Email: UAAF@aol.com
UNISON
UNISON is the UK’s largest public sector union with 1.3 million
members. HIV/AIDS has been identified as one of UNISON’s key
international themes which falls under the work of the International
Unit of the Policy and Public Affairs Department. As a public sector
union, UNISON considers HIV/AIDS an issue of critical importance
to public sector workers and the public sector around the world.
The impact of HIV/AIDS on women is of serious concern as UNISON
has a majority of women members. UNISON is a strong advocate of
work place and human rights and wishes to ensure workers with HIV/AIDS
around the world are treated justly by their employers and society
in general. UNISON has longstanding solidarity with many trade unions
in southern Africa and is continuing with this around tackling HIV/AIDS.
Current projects include a national seminar for trade unionists
throughout southern Africa on sharing best practice of HIV/AIDS
projects and campaigns and developing a public sector code on HIV/AIDS.
Email: P.Jones@unison.co.uk
Website: www.unison.org.uk/international/index.asp
United Reformed
Church, Church & Society Department
Church and Society Department seeks to ‘serve local churches,
district councils and synods, ecumenical and appropriate secular
bodies, in raising awareness, sharing information and encouraging
reflection and action on matters of justice and peace, healing and
reconciliation.’ Their work covers a very wide range of issues
such as social policy, peace and disarmament, world development,
race relations, unemployment and the future of work, and 'end of
life' issues. They work especially closely with Christian Aid, World
Development Movement, One World Week, Jubilee 2000, Church Action
on Poverty, the Churches National Housing Coalition and the Churches
Commission on Racial Justice.
Website: http://www.urc.org.uk
Email: church.society@urc.org.uk
VSO (Voluntary Service
Overseas)
VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers.
The volunteers aim to pass on their expertise to local people so
that when they return home their skills remain. Volunteers can be
aged between 18 and 75 years old and must have a formal qualification
and some work experience, today the average age of a volunteer is
38. These volunteers work in partnership with colleagues and communities
to share skills and learning and achieve positive change together.
HIV & AIDS is one of six goals within VSO's corporate strategic
plan. VSO has 22 programmes working in HIV & AIDS in Africa,
Asia, and the Pacific. Our objective is to combat stigma, support
prevention, and increase the availability of treatment, care and
support for those infected and affected by HIV & AIDS. The largest
of these programmes is the Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern
Africa (RAISA) now planning for its 3rd phase which aims to strengthen
the capacity of civil society and government in six southern African
countries, to develop and to work with partners around implementation
of the multi-sectoral response to HIV&AIDS.
Policy and Advocacy Advisers: Nina.O'farrell@vso.org.uk
Michael.Podmore@vso.org.uk
Programme Development Advisor: HIV & AIDS; Kate.iorpenda@vso.org.uk
Email: hiv@vso.org.uk
Website: http://www.vso.org.uk
Email: enquiry@vso.org.uk
WOMANKIND Worldwide
WOMANKIND Worldwide is a UK-based charity dedicated to women's development
and women's human rights globally. Their vision is of a future society
in which women can take their place as equal partners in determining
the values, direction and governance of their community and country
- for the benefit of all. WOMANKIND works in Europe, Latin America,
Southern India and Africa on issues such as violence against women
and civil rights, harmful traditional practices, trauma-therapy
training, refugee issues, advocacy and campaigning.
Website: http://www.womankind.org.uk
Email: info@womankind.org.uk
World
Association for Christian Communication
The World Association for Christian
Communication (WACC) builds on communication rights in order to
promote social justice. In direct partnership with others, we aim
to be a catalyst for change for the better, sharing information,
knowledge and experience in the field of communication. WACC has
members in 110 countries, working at local, national and international
levels. WACC’s HIV and AIDS, Communication and Stigma Programme
supports communication strategies that are gender sensitive to change
stigmatising and discriminatory behaviour that contributes to the
spread of HIV and the harm it causes. In addition to providing seed
money for one year local and national projects, WACC is also working
with local partners in Ghana and Nigeria, with the support of UKaid
from the Department for International Development, to train and
empower religious and community leaders in a rights-based approach
to overcome stigma and increase care and support for people living
with and affected by HIV.
Website: http://waccglobal.org
World Vision
World Vision is working to reduce the global impact of HIV/AIDS
through programmes focused on prevention, care and advocacy. As
well as providing care and support to those living with HIV/AIDS,
World Vision encourages preventative measures and lobbies governments
to adopt policies and programmes that prevent new infections and
provide care for those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. A
special emphasis is placed on the needs of orphans and vulnerable
children.
Website: http://www.worldvision.org.uk
Observers:
Department for International
Development (DFID)
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the UK Government
department responsible for promoting development and the reduction
of poverty. DFID seeks to work in partnership with governments committed
to the International Development Targets, with business, civil society
and the research community. DFID also works with multilateral institutions
such as the World Bank, United Nations agencies and the European
Community. DFID’s HIV/AIDS policies are outlined in ‘HIV/AIDS
Strategy’ available on the DFID Website.
Website: www.dfid.gov.uk
Email: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, Economic Policy Department
The British Government department responsible for overseas relations
and foreign affairs, through their headquarters in London and their
Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates throughout the world.
Website: http://www.fco.gov.uk
Constella Futures
Constella Futures specialises in the design and implementation of
public health and social programs for developing countries. We work
with government agencies, foundations, corporations, and nongovernmental
organisations to address conditions that compromise the well-being
of people around the world. Futures Group helps countries and communities
build local capacity and forge public-private partnerships. We also
work with the corporate sector to help companies take critical decisions
relating to its workforce and HIV/AIDS policies. Futures Group’s
European office was founded in 1991 and currently maintains overseas
project offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Lahore, Pakistan; Beijing, China;
and Pretoria, South Africa.
Website: www.constellafutures.com
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