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The Stop AIDS Campaign is an unprecedented initiative of the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, bringing together more than 80 of the UK's leading development and HIV/AIDS groups.


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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

ActionAid
ActionAid UK is one of the largest development agencies, working in partnership with communities in over 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to fight poverty and its causes. Since 1987, ActionAid has been at the forefront of community-based responses to HIV/AIDS, including supporting community-based organisations, developing the innovative Stepping Stones programme, supporting home-based care and VCT and advocating for the rights of people with HIV/AIDS and those vulnerable to it. Under the auspices of ActionAid International, ActionAid country programmes around the world work together to change the social and economoc factors that drive the epidemic at community, national and international levels. ActionAid International also works in Italy, France, Ireland and Greece, with offices in Brussels and Washington and a sister organisation in Spain, Ayuda en Accion.
Website: http://www.actionaid.org
Email: hiv@actionaid.org.uk

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 HIV 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

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

Centre for International Health Studies, Queen Margaret University College
The Centre for International Health (CIHS) 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 CIHS 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 - CIHS seeks to promote study of key issues impacting international health policy and practice.
E-mail: OObrien@QMUC.ac.uk
Website: www.qmuc.ac.uk/cihs/default.htm

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

Commonwealth Medical Association
The main objective of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) is to strengthen the capacity of medical and other health professional associations in developing countries to promote the health and well-being of their communities. Its activities are concerned mainly with women's and youth health, sexual and reproductive health and ethical and human rights implications of providing health information and services in such countries. The Commonwealth Medical Association Trust (ComMAT) carries out the CMA's charitable projects.
Website: http://www.commedas.org
Website: http://www.commat.org

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

Concern
Concern is a voluntary non-governmental organisation devoted to the relief, assistance and advancement of peoples in need in less developed areas of the world. Concern believes in a world where no-one lives in poverty, fear or oppression; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy and creative life; a world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our education, health
and livelihoods work endeavours to enable individuals, families and groups infected and affected by HIV/AIDS to reduce the impact of the disease on their social and economic
status.
Website:
http://www.concern.net/

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/

Crusaid
Crusaid exists to make a difference to people living with HIV and AIDS. We relieve poverty and illness caused by the virus, educate, and support vaccine research through independent fundraising and grant making. With more people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS - both in the UK and overseas - than ever before, the calls for our help have never been greater.
Email: office@crusaid.org.uk
Website: http://www.crusaid.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

Female Health Foundation/Company
The Female Health Company produces female condoms, providing low-cost female condoms in Africa through an agreement with UNAIDS. Through this partnership, the female condom has been made available in over 60 countries and is proving to be a vital product in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Working with Ministries of Health, donors, NGOs and social marketing organizations, FHC can assess and develop practical introductory strategies, a framework for distribution, communication, marketing, training and monitoring activities, facilitate the exchange of information between country programmes, donors and NGOs, and share lessons learned. It sponsors the Female Health Foundation, which provides technical assistance to organisations and programmes; maintains a resource centre of IEC, training and research materials; and publishes an electronic newsletter regarding female-initiated prevention programmes.
Website: http://www.femalecondom.org
Email: info@femalecondom.org

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Economic Policy Department
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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

 

George House Trust
George House Trust is the HIV voluntary organisation for the North West of England. We were established (as "Manchester AIDSLine") in 1985 and are the second oldest surviving HIV charity in the UK. George House Trust provides voluntary support services for people with HIV in the North West, together with support to carers, partners and children directly affected by HIV; runs education campaigns for people with HIV and to raise awareness about HIV; challenges discrimination against people with HIV and campaigns for the best quality of life for all people with HIV.
Website: http://www.ght.org.uk/
Email: ght@ght.org.uk

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

Healthlink Worldwide
Healthlink Worldwide aims to improve the health and wellbeing of poor and vulnerable communities. It does this by working in partnership with organisations in developing countries to strengthen communication on health and disability issues, including HIV/AIDS. Our work on HIV/AIDS promotes a broad understanding of HIV/AIDS and sexual health issues in the context of human rights and gender inequalities. It offers expertise and training in various aspects of health and disability-related communications, including needs assessment and impact evaluation, project management, networking, development of print and electronic materials, and resource centre and database development.
Websites www.healthlink.org.uk
www.asksource.info
E-mail: hammond.s@healthlink.org.uk

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 Aged
'Our vision is a world where older people can lead lives that are valued, involved and fulfilled. We believe this is their fundamental right.' Help the Aged is committed to addressing the issues that matter to older people. They have four main priorities: Combating Poverty, Reducing Isolation, Defeating Ageism, Challenging, Poor Care Standards. Working together with older people they campaign, research and develop practical solutions.
Wesite: http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/default.htm
Email (England): info@helptheaged.org.uk
Email (Wales): infocymru@helptheaged.org.uk
Email (Scotland): infoscot@helptheaged.org.uk
Email (Northern Ireland): infoni@helptheaged.org.uk

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

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

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.
Email:dalyf@interactworldwide.org
Web: www.interactworldwide.org

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is a global organization working to speed the development and distribution of preventive AIDS vaccines. IAVI’s work focuses on four areas: mobilizing support through advocacy and education; accelerating scientific progress; encouraging industrial participation in AIDS vaccine development; and assuring global access.
Website: http://www.iavi.org
Email: hilary@regordane.net

International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
ICW is an international network run for and by HIV positive women that promotes all our voices and advocates for changes that improve our lives. ICW has a membership of more than 2000 women living with HIV from over 90 countries. Through its advocacy work, trainings and publications, ICW aims to realize its Vision of a world where all HIV positive women have a respected and meaningful involvement at all political levels, local, national, regional, and international, where decisions that affect our lives are being made; have full access to care and treatment; and enjoy full rights, particularly sexual, reproductive, legal, financial and general health rights; irrespective of our sexuality, culture, age, religion, social or economic status/class and race.
Website: http://www.icw.org
Email: info@icw.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

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://www.salvationarmy.org.uk
Website: http://www.salvationarmy.org

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)
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

Student Partnership Worldwide (SPW)
SPW is a youth development charity harnessing the energy and enthusiasm of trained young volunteers to work at the heart of rural communities in Africa and Asia. European, American and Australasian volunteers live and work alongside local volunteer partners, tackling the health and environmental issues facing young people in rural areas.
Website: http://www.spw.org
Email: spwuk@gn.apc.org

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/

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

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 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

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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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