Global AIDS Alliance (GAA)
Founded in 2001, GAA is a recognized leader in the US on global AIDS policy, advocacy, media communications, and community mobilization. GAA played a critical role in passage of legislation authorizing the President’s Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and in development of the PEPFAR program by the Bush administration.  GAA advocates aggressively for immediate implementation of prevention and treatment interventions that focus specifically on HIV, but GAA contends – and most development experts agree – that long-term success against the epidemic will also need to address the root causes of economic and social vulnerability. For this grant, GAA proposes to undertake a comprehensive campaign to promote action in Washington to advance universal basic education.  GAA will undertake public policy analysis and advocacy on issues of universal education and will support these with extensive media outreach and public education.  Using its existing grassroots network, GAA will mobilize activists on education issues and will deploy professional advocates and field organizers in up to 10 key states and Congressional districts.

AIDS-Free World
The MAC AIDS Fund grant to AIDS-Free World supports advocacy programs in Africa and the Caribbean, focusing on national AIDS policies and strategies, programs and processes that determine HIV treatment, prevention and care.  AIDS-Free World co-directors are Stephen Lewis, a humanitarian, diplomat, human rights activist and former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, and Paula Donovan, Senior Advisor in the office of the U.N. Special Envoy and 20-year veteran of international development, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS.  This new project takes advocacy conducted in Africa under Mr. Lewis’ tenure to new regions beyond Africa, starting with the Caribbean, to address the “unfinished business” of the past several years, such as the need for increased AIDS funding, universal access to AIDS drugs by 2010, the horrendous vulnerability of women, the neglected millions of orphans and other relevant issues.