Association of Nutrition Services Agencies (ANSA), South Africa
The Association of Nutrition Services Agencies (ANSA) was formed to enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses by strengthening the capability of community-based nutrition support programs.  For over 20 years, ANSA and its member agencies have been at the forefront of providing life-sustaining nutrition services to nearly one out of every four persons living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. In 2007-2008, ANSA expanded into South Africa, bringing expert HIV/AIDS nutrition information to meet the complex and comprehensive nutrition needs of specific communities over multi-year periods.

Canadian Feed the Children, Uganda
Canadian Feed the Children operates with the Uganda Community Based Association for Child Welfare (UCOBAC), which provides home-based care programs in four districts of high HIV prevalence in Uganda. This grant would enable support for the on-going costs of home-based care for 20 families impacted by HIV/AIDS.  UCOBAC also provides training for community based volunteers, supplies vital to their work (bicycles, first aid kits, etc.), and offers basic survival needs such as food, mattresses, bed nets, home repairs, and livestock to the affected families.

Dignitas International, Malawi
Dignitas International is a humanitarian NGO founded by a group of international health and research experts to respond to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Dignitas proposes to provide a full continuum of HIV/AIDS services in a hard-hit region of Malawi through community-based care. This community-based care includes voluntary counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, HIV prevention behavior change programs, distribution of condoms, the treatment and prevention of opportunistic infections and sexually transmitted infections, palliative and psychosocial care, and treatment with life-extending antiretroviral therapies. Dignitas works at the hospital, health centre and community levels to ensure adequate support, follow-up and monitoring of patients. Additionally, Dignitas will conduct intervention research to generate new and relevant knowledge to inform services and will disseminate this information and educate decision-makers, international funders and policy makers.

Film AID, Kenya & Tanzania
Film AID provides screenings of HIV awareness videos at refugee camps in Kenya and Tanzania, targeting a particularly vulnerable audience of women at these camps. To date, the program has reached over 850,000 women. Film AID trainings focus on issues such as: how the virus is transmitted, the effects of the virus on the community, stigma, condom use and testing.

Foundation Against HIV/AIDS, Ethiopia
The Foundation Against HIV/AIDS works toward HIV prevention and control in Ethiopia. This project provides community-based care working in partnership with the local hospital to identify patients better suited for a community care setting. These patients will receive daily home visits from trained community health liaisons, who will work with the hospital to ensure continuity of care. This allows the hospital to then focus on critically ill patients.

Friends of Picardy Drive & HIV/AIDS Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
The Friends of Picardy Drive partners with the ILANGA program which was founded by a local Zimbabwean in 1996 and serves HIV-positive mothers from low-income backgrounds in the Bulawayo district. Historically, women who are abandoned or widowed due to HIV/AIDS have been left with little ability to support themselves or their children. Many of these children end up in orphanages or as street children. This seed grant will provide school fees and educational materials for the children of the HIV positive women in the care of ILANGA.

Friends of Ruwenzori, Uganda
The Friends of Ruwenzori Foundation serves as the fiduciary partner for the Kitojo Integrated Development Association (KIDA), a Ugandan nonprofit serving rural HIV infected persons in four communities in Western Uganda’s Kabarole District. This grant provides funding for a Nutrition and Income Generating Project for PLWHA’s in this district. The program will teach and support: organic farming and nutrition classes (including the provision of tools and seeds), vocational training programs for youth (cooking, sewing, carpentry) and offer micro-credit loans for select persons to begin their own business.

Heartland Alliance for Human Rights and Needs, Rwanda
Heartland Alliance for Human Rights and Needs works to advance human rights and respond to the needs of endangered populations.  The Heartland Alliance Center for the Treatment of the Survivors of Torture is the largest community-based center of its kind in the US, providing psychological, medical and social services to more than 380,000 survivors of state sponsored torture in more than 53 countries. In response to the mass rape of 250,000 Rwandan women, many of whom contracted HIV from this event, the Heartland Alliance studied the relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and depression and treatment adherence to HIV/AIDS medication. This project uses that data to integrate culturally-appropriate mental health services with HIV/AIDS treatment programs for HIV+ victims of mass rape in Rwanda.

International Women’s Health Coalition, Cameroon
IWHC works with a national grassroots organization, Society for Women and AIDS in Africa, Cameroon (SWAAC), which provides sexuality education, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, and HIV/AIDS treatment and care.  Sexuality education emphasizes gender equality, sexual rights, and preventing sexual violence.  The sexuality education program began in one branch with 40 girls and will expand to at least four branches reaching over 1,000 boys and girls.  The HIV/AIDS education and prevention efforts will focus on peer-to-peer outreach in schools, religious institutions, rotating credit groups, and youth associations.  The hospital-based HIV/AIDS treatment and care that SWAAC carries out consist of counseling services, nutrition information/demonstrations, reduced-price pharmacy, free testing, basic medical care, and day beds for AIDS patients and their families.  One of the main programs that the MAC AIDS Fund supports educates women and men with instructions on using the female condom.

Population Council, Eastern Africa
The Population Council in an international NGO which seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of high risk populations worldwide. This grant will enable the Population Council to bring regional HIV experts and national policymakers together to set policy and determine programming for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Eastern Africa. This meeting has the potential to result in large scale policy changes in both prevention and treatment programming at the national level in this region of the continent.

Save Africa’s Children, South Africa
Save Africa’s Children provides small grants to grassroots organizations in 21 African nations. This M·A·C AIDS Fund grant enables support for five community-based organizations in South Africa serving AIDS affected and vulnerable children. Services include: early childhood education, home-based care, school fees and nutritional support.

Tides Center/Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH), Kenya
The Tides Center serves as fiscal sponsor for TICAH, which seeks to strengthen the understanding of the broader cultural context of health in Africa and Asia. This project, “Our Bodies: Our Choice,” will operate peer groups in Kenya focused on fostering discussion around positive sexuality. Groups will include: youth groups, faith-based groups, lesbian and gay groups, and women’s and men’s groups. These groups will be open to both HIV positive and negative persons and will focus on building open environments in which sexuality can be discussed in a positive way. TICAH will also publicize some of the conversations as public service announcements to encourage broader discussion and communication.

William J. Clinton Foundation, Liberia
The William J. Clinton Foundation (CHAI) will provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Liberia. The country’s devastating civil war has left its health care system damaged causing 90% of Liberian doctors, nurses and other health professionals to leave the country. The primary focus of CHAI’s work in Liberia has been to support the MOH in the development of a national health strategy, and facilitate the integration of HIV services into this program. CHAI seeks to provide a foundation for a stable healthcare system by providing technical assistance to the MOH in the following areas:  setting clinical guidelines and expanding access to quality care and treatment; strengthening strategic planning and health management systems; assisting in the GFATM and World Bank application process.