Funder Collaborations Addressing HIV/AIDS: Examples from Around the World
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Funder Collaborations Addressing HIV/AIDS: examples from around the world FUNDERS CONCERNED ABOUT AIDS funders concerned about aids Funder Collaborations Addressing HIV/AIDS: Examples from Around the World Founded in 1987, FCAA’s mission is to mobilize philanthropic leadership, ideas, and resources, domestically and internationally, to eradicate the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to address its social and economic consequences. FCAA has become a leading voice and broker within U.S. philanthropy on both domestic and global HIV/AIDS issues and one of the most effective grantmaker affinity groups in U.S. philanthropy. FCAA’s vision is to create a philanthropic sector that collaborates in an informed and urgent manner to ensure that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is halted and that communities already affected by it receive the resources they need. During 2008 and 2009, FCAA will work to broaden its support of collaboration among grantmakers on funding related to HIV and AIDS. FCAA invites grantmakers and others to visit www.fcaaids.org to learn more about FCAA’s work to encourage collaborations among HIV/AIDS grantmakers. funders concerned about aids 2 The following is a selection table of contents of grantmaking partnerships African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (ACHAP) 3 demonstrating how funders African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) 5 Border AIDS Partnership 6 are collaborating to address Chicago Housing for Health Partnership HIV/AIDS around the world. (CHHP) 7 Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative— Global Pediatric Program 8 Coalition on Children Affected by AIDS 9 These 19 case studies are Funders’ Collaborative for Children in Malawi (FCFC) 10 offered as a sampling of a Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI) diverse and exciting array of African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (ABMP) grantmaker collaborations. Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS (CBMP) 11 FCAA encourages grantmakers HIV Collaborative Fund, Project of and others to visit our Tides Center 12 International Family AIDS Initiatives – website at www.fcaaids.org Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation 13 Joint Learning Initiative on Children to learn more about potential and AIDS 14 MSM Initiative 15 grantmaking partnerships National AIDS Fund 16 related to HIV/AIDS. National Black AIDS Mobilization 17 Palliative Care 18 Strategic Alliances 19 Syringe Access Fund 20 Ukrainian Project for HIV+ Children and Their Families 21 World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) 22 funders concerned about aids 3 African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (ACHAP) philanthropic partners include: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Merck & Co. Inc (MSD) and Merck Company Foundation Ms. Lame Ramokate, Communications and Public Relations Officer African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership E-mail: [email protected] Tel: + 267 393 3842 8:?8G_Xe[jfm\ib\pj]fiXe\ncpZfejkilZk\[8IMZc`e`Zkfk_\cfZXc ^fm\ied\ek In 2000, the Government of Botswana, The Merck Company Foundation/Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), and the Bill & Melinda Gates across the country. More than 3,200 physicians, Foundation established the African Comprehensive nurses, and other health care professionals have Partnerships (ACHAP) to support and enhance received hands-on, clinic-based training from Botswana’s response to the HIV and AIDS international HIV and AIDS experts through the epidemic through a comprehensive approach to partnership’s preceptorship program. As of March HIV and AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and 2008: support. The Merck Company Foundation and ■ More than 97,000 patients are receiving ARV the Gates Foundation each have committed $56.5 treatment, representing the highest ARV coverage million to the partnership. In addition, MSD is rate in Africa. When Masa began in 2002, less donating ARV medicines to Botswana’s national than 5 percent of those in need of ARV treatment ARV treatment program — known as Masa (or received it. “dawn”) — for the partnership’s duration. ■ Adherence to treatment is among the highest While reducing the impact of HIV and AIDS in the world. will not happen overnight, results to date from ■ AIDS mortality rates have been cut in half. Botswana are promising. ■ Mother-to-child transmission has dropped Today, Masa is one of the largest national HIV from 40% to 4% between 2003 and 2006. treatment programs on the African continent, with ■ There has been a reduction in HIV prevalence 32 clinics and 54 satellite facilities in operation from 25 percent to 18 percent (a 28 percent www.achap.org funders concerned about aids 4 African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (ACHAP) continued reduction) between the years 2003 and 2006 The strength of ACHAP lies in its full integration with government strategy and its ability to harness private-sector expertise in support of national efforts to address HIV and AIDS. Today, the lessons learned in Botswana are being applied to projects elsewhere to help governments, aid organizations, community groups and people living with HIV to address the challenges of this disease. Priorities for ACHAP in 2008 and beyond include scaling up prevention efforts, continued strengthening of the Masa program, incorporation of TB into the program, and further strengthening of post-test services. funders concerned about aids 5 African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) philanthropic partners include: American Jewish World Service Carnegie Corporation of New York Comic Relief CORDAID Ford Foundation Global Fund for Women HIVOS John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Mama Cash Foundation Match International Mertz Gilmore Foundation Nelson Mandela Foundation 8N;=^iXek\\j18YXekl$E`^\i`Xn`k_Y\e\ÔZ`Xi`\jf]k_\`igfc`k`ZXcc\X[\ij_`g New Field Foundation gif^iXd% Open Society Institute Oxfam Novib Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisers African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) Sigrid Rausing Foundation is a grantmaking foundation that supports local, Sister Fund national, and regional organizations in Africa Stephen Lewis Foundation working towards women’s empowerment. AWDF, Tides Foundation through institutional capacity-building and program Urgent Action Fund development, seeks to build a culture of learning and partnership within the African women’s movement. Established in June 2000, AWDF was Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Executive Director, the first Africa-wide fundraising and grantmaking African Women’s Development Fund fund. The objectives of AWDF are to fundraise e-mail: [email protected] within and outside Africa, make grants on an Tel: +233 21 780 476 Africa-wide basis, communicate the work and achievements of African women’s organizations, and provide technical assistance to grantees. Since 2000, AWDF has funded over 575 women’s organizations in 41 African countries. http://awdf.org funders concerned about aids 6 Border AIDS Partnership philanthropic partners include: El Paso Community Foundation National AIDS Fund Mary Lou Moreno, Coordinator Border AIDS Partnership E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1 915 533 4020 9`ccYfXi[]ifd^iXek\\fi^Xe`qXk`fef]9fi[\i8@;JGXike\ij_`g#cfZXk\[fe @ek\i\jkXk\('#j\\e]ifd[fnekfne<cGXjf#K\oXj% The El Paso Community Foundation and the U.S./ Mexico Border Health Association partnered in 1994 to create a local HIV/AIDS partnership that would provide assistance to nonprofit organizations in the surrounding region working on this critical health problem. The resulting collaboration, with support from the National AIDS Fund, created the Border AIDS Partnership (BAP), a bi-national and tri-state funding collaborative that has been providing funding for HIV/AIDS education and prevention activities in El Paso, Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Since 1996, the BAP has distributed more than $1 million to support innovative HIV prevention programs in our region. www.epcf.org/borderaids.html funders concerned about aids 7 Chicago Housing for Health Partnership (CHHP) philanthropic partners include: Begun in November 2002 with a six-month pilot AIDS Foundation of Chicago run generously supported by the Michael Reese Michael Reese Health Trust Health Trust and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago Community Trust the Chicago Housing for Health Partnership Polk Brothers Foundation (CHHP) was developed by a 15 member coalition HUD Homeless Programs of housing, healthcare, and respite care providers to establish 120 new supportive housing units in Chicago through federal and private funds. The first Arturo Valdivia Bendixen, Director of its kind in the nation, the project has since gained Chicago Housing for Health Partnership national recognition as a cost-effective model for E-mail: [email protected] providing housing and a comprehensive array of Tel: +1 312 922 2322 health and social services for chronically-ill homeless individuals. By actively offering coordinated housing and intensive case management, medical, and support services to a targeted set of high-need populations, CHHP is demonstrating improved health outcomes and lower long-term health utilization costs. www.aidschicago.org funders concerned about aids 8 Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative—Global Pediatric Program philanthropic partners include: Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative UNITAID Anil Soni, CEO Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 646 775 9176 Despite high mortality–half of HIV-positive children die without treatment by age two, and 80% by age five–only one in 40 children had access to treatment in 2005. That year, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) launched a pediatric program in response to this situation. In 2006, CHAI secured large-scale