Dear Colleagues:

 

Attached please find summaries of all projects funded by the HIV Collaborative Fund in 2006 - 2007.  Over the course of the year, a total of 184 projects in 73 countries were funded around the world to support community mobilization for access to HIV care, services and education.  All these projects were selected through regionally-based peer-review processed led by community leaders in each of 10 regions, the majority of whom are people living with HIV.

 

The grant summaries provide information on projects funded in the following regions:

 

- East Africa                         - Southeast Asia            - Latin America                                - Women and Families in Sub-Saharan Africa

- West/Central Africa        - South Asia                     - Caribbean

- Southern Africa                - China                               - Eastern Europe/Central Asia

 

 

In addition to funding projects through small grants, the Collaborative Fund also supports community mobilization for HIV care and services through provision of funding for technical assistance, regional network development and coordination, and program monitoring and evaluation.  Separate reports on each of these activities are forthcoming.

 

In most regions, this list represents a second round of funded projects (in Eastern Europe/Central Asia, a fourth round of funding is complete). Another round of grant making in now in the planning stages in each region and many regions will complete this round by December 2007. 

 

The HIV Collaborative Fund is a partnership of the Tides Network and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). Since December 2006, ITPC has reached several important milestones, including:

 

- the installation of its first International Coordinator, Greg Gray.

- the release of a third Missing the Target  report, analyzing HIV treatment access is six countries

- held a global meeting on strengthening ITPC governance and communications systems (full meeting report available at the Collaborative Fund website)

- met with representatives from WHO, UNAIDS and the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria to discuss the furtherance of the Universal Access Initiative

 

Over the course of this year, the HIV Collaborative Fund will increase its commitment to program monitoring and evaluation, technical assistance and regional network development.  Other developments include the division of the West and Central African regions to better meet the needs of people living with HIV in those areas and the development of Collaborative Fund activities in North Africa.  We will also seek to increase the total amount of grant money available for distribution in each region.

 

 

AIDS Fonds Netherlands

American Jewish World Services

Elton John AIDS Foundation

Ford Foundation

Gagarin Family Trust

Guttag Family Foundation

John M. Lloyd Foundation

Johnson & Johnson

Levi Strauss Foundation

MAC AIDS Fund

Open Society Institute

Overbrook Foundation

Pfizer Foundation

Puget Sound Fund

Starry Night Fund

Steven Lewis Foundation

Tides Foundation

UK Department of International Development

UNAIDS

United National Development Program (UNDP)

World Health Organization