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YRG CARE / John Hopkins University

India

PWID

With funding from the Foundation, John Hopkins University is expanding direct service delivery to high-burden states in North India to improve the HIV care among vulnerable populations with preventative treatment, HIV treatment, and HIV self-testing.

Historic Grants in Africa

Here are a few select grants that the Foundation has previously funded across Africa. We’ve worked with an incredible range of local partners and supported them in implementing local solutions for the people who need it most.

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Alamo Area Resource Center

USA

LGBTQ Community

The Alamo Area Resource Center have established the first telemedicine model in Texas for HIV and LGBTQ health care. The project allows clinicians to continue seeing patients in a virtual environment, allowing the majority to remain at home without risking exposure via public transportation or sitting in a clinic waiting room.

Historic Grants in Asia

Here are a few select grants that the Foundation has previously funded across Asia. We’ve worked with an incredible range of local partners and supported them in implementing local solutions for the people who need it most.

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Atlanta

Atlanta has become a chosen home for the LGBTQ+ community, the group most impacted by HIV. There are currently more than 37,000 people here living with HIV.

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BeOnLine: A Platform to Expanding HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Kazakhstan

Global Health Research Center of Central Asia

Kazakhstan

MSM

In response to dramatically increasing HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kazakhstan, this project is expanding access to HIV through HIV self-testing and leveraging social media to ensure the needs of a stigmatized population are addressed and accessible.

Birmingham AIDS Outreach

USA

LGBTQ Community

With the help of our COVID-19 Emergency Fund, Birmingham AIDS Outreach developed a plan for drive-through HIV and STI testing through their mobile testing unit ‘Mabel'. Clients can be tested for HIV while remaining inside of their vehicles, limiting the amount of contact and reducing chances of Coronavirus transmission. This testing method has been extremely successful and has helped to prevent any further lapse in testing availability. In addition to their mobile testing unit, they developed a set of educational videos that covered the HIV facts and information that would usually be given to a client post-test.

Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research

CeSHHAR

Zimbabwe

Sex Workers

CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is using emergency funding to equip workers with personal protective equipment (PPE) to safely conduct outreach for male and female sex workers, whilst setting up online services to support people’s adherence to treatment to keep services running during the pandemic.

Challenge Fund Scale-Up-Kenya

Population Services International (PSI)

Kenya

Adolescents

Adult men constitute the largest segment of those with unknown status in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV self-testing has proven to be an effective tool for overcoming men's reluctance to test. In Kenya, CIFF, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and Unitaid have created a distribution system to provide HIV self-testing kits available in pharmacies, community centers, and high risk workplaces so young men are motivated to find out their status to protect their partners.

Chukua Selfie

Scanad Kenya Ltd.

Kenya

Adolescents

As part of MenStar, Chukua Selfie is a media campaign aimed to motivate young men to stay informed and use HIV self-testing, a specific simple way to know HIV status, confidentially, at a time and place of their choosing across Kenya.

Community-Led Mobile-Based Harm Reduction

Perkumpulan Rumah Cemara

Indonesia

People Who Use Drugs

This project removes the barriers to comprehensive harm reduction services and linkage to treatment for people who use drugs. Four sites and community-run one-stop services centres support people who use drugs of which 3,000 will be reached and tested in Indonesia.

Ending the epidemic policy fellowship program

Equality Foundation of Georgia

USA

People living with HIV/General Population

The Ending the Epidemic Policy Fellowship places recent graduates of master's degree programs in public health, public administration, public policy, and related fields or equivalent professional experience at Georgia Equality and partner organizations for a 6-month immersion into the policy-making process. Fellows apply their academic training, critical thinking, and analytical skills to support evidence informed decision-making that addresses HIV policy challenges within the city and state. Hosts gain valuable science-based knowledge and develop the strategic professional skill sets of participating fellows.

Historic Grants in Europe & Central Asia

Here are a few select grants that the Foundation has previously funded across Europe. We’ve worked with an incredible range of local partners and supported them in implementing local solutions for the people who need it most.

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Friends For Life Corporation

USA

LGBTQ Community

Friends For Life distributes food pantry bags for over 700 clients per month directly out of their main office. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Friends For Life shifted to delivery distribution allowing clients to remain safely in their homes, instead of navigating public transit and spaces to procure basic food and hygiene products, while simultaneously lessening the risk of COVID-19 infections for essential on-site staff.

Fund for Resilience, Equity, and Engagement (FREE)

AIDS United

USA

MSM

Although Black gay and bisexual men account for one in 500 people living in the US, they make up nearly one in four new HIV infections and one in six Americans living with HIV. An estimated overall 21% of transgender individuals are infected with HIV in the US, which is approximately three times higher among Black transgender people. Through this new initiative, the Foundation's goal is intensive focus on community support and mobilization to develop programs to reduce new infection rates and AIDS-related illness and death and confront racism, homophobia, and transphobia as key drivers of HIV infection and disease.

Guiding Right

USA

LGBTQ Community

With support from the Foundation's COVID-19 Emergency Fund, Guiding Right transitioned in-person care services to virtual for HIV prevention, testing and treatment. Guiding Right also supported their sub grantee, Other Options, to buy food from regional food banks to maintain weekly deliveries to 2,000 clients.

India HIV/AIDS Alliance

India

MSM/Transgender

India HIV/AIDS Alliance are transitioning services online and promoting health seeking behaviour and information, whilst providing direct home support to LGBT communities at risk of or living with HIV.

Providing home-delivery of HIV medication is a vital lifeline for people living with HIV during the countries lockdown.

Innovative HIV and Harm Reduction Solutions for Underserved Segments of Key and Bridge Populations in Ukraine

Alliance for Public Health

Ukraine

People Who Use Drugs

The Alliance uses new technologies to improve access to harm reduction and HIV services for LGBT unable to visit conventional services, young recreational users of psychoactive substances, and youth practicing unsafe sex.

Kazakhstan

Almaty is the former capital of Kazakhstan and remains its largest city and cultural hub. About 1 out of 5 people living with HIV in Kazakhstan reside in Almaty.

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Kostamowin addressing community fear

AIDS Saskatoon

Canada

People who use drugs

In Saskatoon, which has been ground zero for Canada's HIV epidemic, we will hire a full-time Community Patroller to pick up improperly discarded needles and distribute harm reduction supplies and food to clients in need throughout inner-city Saskatoon.

Moscow

The Russian Federation is the leading country in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region in terms of the HIV burden, with an estimated 35% growth in new HIV infections since 2010.

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Moscow Lighthouse

Foundation "for support of social initiatives and public health"

Russian Federation

MSM

This project aims to extend access to HIV prevention and health care services for the LGBT community in the Moscow city area through HIV testing and counseling, self-testing, preventative treatment and delivering services for MSM/LGBT labor migrants from other Eastern European or Central Asian countries.

Novosibirsk Lighthouse

NGO "humanitarian project"

Russian Federation

MSM

The project improves HIV prevention, care, and support programs for key populations in one of the areas most heavily impacted by HIV in Russia, the Novosibirsk region.

Online Therapy with London HIV Clinics

Terrence Higgins Trust (THT)

United Kingdom

PLWH / General Population

The Foundation-funded project offers people living with HIV access to online services, providing clients with accessible and convenient support, the promise of increased anonymity, and ultimately increased empowerment to better manage their sexual health and well-being: much-needed services for PLHIV that will help them live healthier and happier lives.

Perkumpulan Rumah Cemara

Indonesia

People living with HIV

Rumah Cemara are distributing HIV medication to people living with HIV in their homes to avoid them being exposed to COVID-19. Rumah Camara are also providing virtual support services; an online meeting platforms allows them to provide workshops, tele-counselling service, and facilitate group support meetings.

PrEPster

United Kingdom

MSM

The Foundation has enabled PrEPster to undertake substantial education and advocacy activity in the UK.

READY 4 an AIDS-Free Future, Maputo, Mozambique

Frontline AIDS (in consortium with AMODEFA, REPSSI, and Africaid-Zvandiri)

Mozambique

Adolescents

This Elton John AIDS Foundation and Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office funded project is being implemented in Maputo city and Matola. This UK Aid Match project is designed to benefit adolescents and young people at highest risk of HIV by enabling access to a comprehensive package of HIV and sexual reproductive health services; from HIV prevention to testing, treatment, and care services. It caters to the most marginalised adolescents and young people, helping those who are HIV negative to stay negative and those who are HIV positive to get diagnosed and ongoing treatment.

Ryan White and HIV: The Power of Children and a Mother’s Story

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

USA

Adolescents

In 2007, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis opened The Power of Children, a permanent gallery that shares the stories of three 20th century children who overcame adversity in their lives to inspire children today to fight discrimination and intolerance and make a positive difference in the world. Through funding from the Foundation, it brings stories to life and serves as an intimate theater where struggles against AIDS and intolerance can be told to visitors from all over the world, with the mission of educating the world about AIDS and its victims.

Samarth 2.0

India HIV/AIDS Alliance

India

MSM

Samarth 2.0 offers a model to demonstrate a community-led intervention for men who have sex with men, transgender people and hijras in six priority sites. Samarth 2 aims to expand community-specific combination prevention services to include HIV screening, testing, treatment, and PrEP.

SisterLove

USA

Young People

SisterLove have adapted their HIV, Testing and Counselling and Linkage to Care programming to provide clients with HIV home testing kits . SisterLove are also providing virtual counselling, linkage to care, prevention education, and support to their clients. This has ensured their clients are able to access resources, stay engaged and continue to feel part of the community through times of isolation.

Sisters with a Voice

Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research (CeSHHAR Zimbabwe)

Zimbabwe

Sex Workers

Female sex workers (FSW) in Africa bear the brunt of HIV. In Zimbabwe, HIV prevalence is 58% among FSW, and incidence is high. In 2009, the Sisters with a Voice programme was established by CeSHHAR on behalf of National AIDS Council for FSW and has national reach, operating in 36 sites across Zimbabwe. Clinical services are provided at government health facilities, supported by peer-led community empowerment; 53,000 FSW have been seen to date.

South Africa

South Africa is home to over 7 million people living with HIV, making it one of the countries most affected by HIV in the world.

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St. Petersburg Lighthouse

Saint Petersburg Charitable Social Fund for Medical and Social Programs Humanitarian Action

Russian Federation

People Who Use Drugs

This project will expand HIV, TB, and hepatitis C prevention, treatment, and care services in St. Petersburg for people who use drugs, including street sex workers, in partnership with municipal and state services. The project speeds up the detection of HIV and tuberculosis, prescribes life-saving HIV treatment and anti-TB drugs in a timely manner, and keep patients in treatment, which will reduce the number of deaths from these diseases.

Subhiksha

Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII)

India

Prison Populations

In India, unprotected male-to-male sex, laws against distribution of condoms in prisons, and high rates of injected drug use contribute to high risk of HIV/STI among prisoners. There have been relatively few HIV interventions among prisoners, among whom an estimated 6,800 are living with HIV. The Foundation-funded project expands HIV prevention-to-care continuum services to male prisoners and their families in three vulnerable states in India through health and structural interventions. It also works to create an enabling environment in prisons, prepare prisoners with life-coping skills, and link family members of prisoners to social-legal protection services to reduce vulnerability to HIV/STI.

Support. Don’t Punish: A Global Movement for Harm Reduction

International Drug Policy Consortium

Global

People Who Use Drugs

Support. Don't Punish is a global grassroots-centred initiative in support of harm reduction and drug policy reform. The Foundation-funded campaign puts harm reduction on the political agenda by strengthening the mobilisation capacity of affected communities and their allies, opening dialogue with policy makers and raising awareness among the media and the public.

The Center for Community Solutions

USA

LGBT/People who use drugs

With our support, The Center for Community Solutions has helped local service providers in the area to purchase Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for their staff and vulnerable clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Food Chain

United Kingdom

People living with HIV

The Food Chain are responding to the needs of the most vulnerable people living with HIV in London who have no access to food supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have been providing food parcels to support people during this uncertain time.

Historic Grants in USA

Here are a few select grants that the Foundation has previously funded across the United States of America. We’ve worked with an incredible range of local partners and supported them in implementing local solutions for the people who need it most.

View historic grant list

Vermont Cares

USA

People Who Use Drugs/MSM

Vermont Cares transitioned to a mobile model of service and will use emergency funds from the Foundation to provide fuel for the increased use of their mobile prevention van. They are also providing syringe exchange supplies, safer sex kits, and COVID-19 materials including sanitisers and face masks.

VOCAL Kenya/Harm Reduction International

Kenya

People who use drugs/People living with HIV

Voices of Community Action and Leadership and Harm Reduction International are working with women who use drugs and women living with HIV in the slum areas of Kibera and Kawangware in Nairobi to urgently extend hygiene, harm reduction and HIV prevention services.

ACCELERATE: HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV/AIDS

Africa

Alamo Area Resource Center

Asia

Atlanta

BeOnLine: A Platform to Expanding HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Kazakhstan

Birmingham AIDS Outreach

Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research

Challenge Fund Scale-Up-Kenya

Chukua Selfie

Community-Led Mobile-Based Harm Reduction

Ending the epidemic policy fellowship program

Europe & Central Asia

Friends For Life Corporation

Fund for Resilience, Equity, and Engagement (FREE)

Guiding Right

India HIV/AIDS Alliance

Innovative HIV and Harm Reduction Solutions for Underserved Segments of Key and Bridge Populations in Ukraine

Kazakhstan

Kostamowin addressing community fear

Moscow

Moscow Lighthouse

Novosibirsk Lighthouse

Online Therapy with London HIV Clinics

Perkumpulan Rumah Cemara

PrEPster

READY 4 an AIDS-Free Future, Maputo, Mozambique

Ryan White and HIV: The Power of Children and a Mother’s Story

Samarth 2.0

SisterLove

Sisters with a Voice

South Africa

St. Petersburg Lighthouse

Subhiksha

Support. Don’t Punish: A Global Movement for Harm Reduction

The Center for Community Solutions

The Food Chain

USA

Vermont Cares

VOCAL Kenya/Harm Reduction International

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ACCELERATE: HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV/AIDS

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Target Population

Historic Grants in Africa

Alamo Area Resource Center

Organization

Country

Target Population

Historic Grants in Asia

Atlanta

BeOnLine: A Platform to Expanding HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Kazakhstan

Organization

Country

Target Population

Birmingham AIDS Outreach

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Target Population

Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research

Organization

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Target Population

Challenge Fund Scale-Up-Kenya

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Target Population

Chukua Selfie

Organization

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Target Population

Community-Led Mobile-Based Harm Reduction

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Target Population

Ending the epidemic policy fellowship program

Organization

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Target Population

Historic Grants in Europe & Central Asia

Friends For Life Corporation

Organization

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Target Population

Fund for Resilience, Equity, and Engagement (FREE)

Organization

Country

Target Population

Guiding Right

Organization

Country

Target Population

India HIV/AIDS Alliance

Organization

Country

Target Population

Innovative HIV and Harm Reduction Solutions for Underserved Segments of Key and Bridge Populations in Ukraine

Organization

Country

Target Population

Kazakhstan

Kostamowin addressing community fear

Organization

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Target Population

Moscow

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