HIV/AIDS/CRP.2/Add.1/Rev.1 dated 16 May 2001
List of Civil Society organizations not in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council that have been approved for accreditation to the high-level international intergovernmental event on HIV/AIDS including its preparatory process by Member States, 18 May 2001
Mr. M. Rafeeq Malik, President
31-Gulistan Colony near STN Tower
Bahawalpur
Punjab 63100
Pakistan
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to slow down the spread of HIV in the both urban and rural communities through HIV prevention activities designed to raise community awareness.
Membership: national
The goal of the organization is to support and contribute to the development of health and social protection of people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS epidemic and drug addiction. They carry out innovative prevention programs that reach out to high schools, universities, hospitals, groups supporting people living with HIV, and other NGOs.
Membership: national
This is a national organization of people living with HIV and AIDS which exists to promote the strengthening of the HIV serologically positive people, in any stage, independent of their sexual orientation, gender, creed, race or color, at community, state and national levels.
Membership: regional
The organization is part of the region-wide network AFRICASO. Its main purpose is to strengthen networking and build networks among organizations and groups working on HIV/AIDS at national, sub-regional level. It also advocates for interests of communities and community organizations working on HIV/AIDS to develop their capacity to lobby for their interests. It facilitates the exchange and sharing of appropriate, practical and timely information on HIV/AIDS with and among organizations working on HIV/AIDS in West Africa.
Membership: national
This is a community-based organization that provides health promotion, support, education and advocacy for people living with HIV/AIDS and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
Membership: national
The aim of the organization is to promote reproductive and sexual health in Ukraine by prevention of unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, and by providing access to authoritative information on sexual and reproductive rights.
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to motivate, educate and improve health and population program of the country independently or in association with other government or non-government organizations. It is involved in information, education and communication activities for HIV/AIDS/STD prevention.
Membership: national
This is a national coordinating organization committed to provide institutional support services to its members, affiliates and others concerned for the promotion of health. It uses networking and advocacy to create opportunities for the NGO community to participate in the national decision making process in Bangladesh.
Membership: national
The goal of the organization is to build an efficient health information documentation center. It works to provide educational support on a regular basis to the grassroots primary health workers, development activists by means of newsletters, books, and journals, newsletters and other audiovisual materials.
Membership: regional
The aim of this association is to develop and implement common policies to benefit the health and well being of individuals living in Central and Eastern European countries and in Newly Independent States. It works with all GO-s and NGO-s and other associations towards development and support of activities in the field of prevention and reduction of all harms related to non-medical drug use, especially HIV infection. It also evaluates efficiency of harm reduction programs at the region, publicizes results of these activities and informs communities, governments and the international community about the situation in these countries. Moreover, it supports humanization of the response of society towards drug consumers and people living with HIV or AIDS in order to prevent them being marginalized, to prevent growth of social tension and to protect their irrevocable human rights.
Membership: international
The purpose of the organization is to undertake and promote voluntary work in education, social care and advocacy among African people affected by or living with HIV/AIDS, with particular emphasis on the African continent. It seeks to provide information and promote informed choices and decisions to preserve and protect health, provide relief of sickness and advance education amongst African people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Membership: regional
The purpose of the organization is to glorify God through various objectives including feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, and supporting and enriching the physically and spiritually needy. On HIV/AIDS, it is committed to assist in the government’s efforts through a dedicated AIDS ministry team working to raise awareness about the disease and promoting preventative measures. They provide training to counselors and mobilizing communities to participate in home-based care.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to act as a charitable institution promoting education with respect to AIDS and HIV. It seeks to provide support and services to those people who tested positive for HIV, and to families of those individuals. It also provides a forum for the discussion and networking of information regarding all approaches to healing those afflicted with HIV and AIDS.
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to protect and promote children's rights, especially those street children and those disadvantaged, including orphans, refugees, disabled, and young mothers.
Membership: international
This is an ecumenical, Christian, voluntary, independent organization promoting Christian concern in the filed of HIV/AIDS. Its members are drawn from various churches. Its focus is to involve Christians in the HIV/AIDS primary prevention, prevention of discrimination and stigmatization of people infected with HIV and others who are affected, including special attention to care for women and children.
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to conduct charity activity in the interest of society through helping certain categories of people who need help. On AIDS, they render medical and psychosocial care for people with drug addiction and HIV/AIDS.
s/c Programme National de Lutte Contre le SIDA
04 BP, Contonu 0378
Benin
Membership: national
This is an organization of people living with HIV and AIDS in Benin. Its purpose is to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS through self-help and mutual support.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to promote universal access to comprehensive, reliable information and services on sexuality and related health issues by fostering awareness, understanding and support through education.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to provide up-to-date information on public policy developments whether they involve changes in clinical trials or the drug-approval process. Through its on-line and hard copy publication, it provides one of the primary treatment resources for community-based organizations and government agencies. Physicians, counselors, and clinicians are among the many professionals who regularly turn to AIDS Treatment News for accurate, timely reporting. Leading US newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cable News Network, Journal of the American Medical Association, and ABC and CBS News have all depended on AIDS Treatment News for vital information about the many facets of the AIDS epidemic.Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to advocate for changes in attitudes and practices that constitute factors related to risks of HIV infection. It works to educate the community and the general public on these issues. Its programs include education, communication, research and direct assistance and defense of human rights as a strategy to prevent the further spread of HIV and AIDS.
Membership: international
The purpose of the organization is to address the shortcomings for the provision of humanitarian care of those dying from HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. It seeks to raise funds to assist African hospices to extend their outreach and increase their ability to serve persons with AIDS and their loved ones.
Membership: national
The purpose is to improve activities directed to prevention and decrease in the level of HIV spread. It aims to creates conditions for each citizen, irrespective of sex, age, HIV-status, income and other circumstances, to have access to effective methods of prevention, modern medical treatment, and psycho-social support.
Membership: national
The purpose of this national coalition of organizations is to coordinate, facilitate and advocate ensuring the needs and issues of civil society organizations working on HIV/AIDS are addressed. It provides a coordinated and coherent input to the national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Membership: national
The mission is to work towards maintaining and upgrading health care services to Hispanics and the medically indigent population of San Benito. Its AIDS related programs include development and evaluation of replicable models of HIV prevention strategies.
Membership: international
This organization is a leading independent drug policy and research institute in the United States. It promotes drug policies based on the principle of harm reduction. It advocates methods based on common sense, science, public health and human rights to reduce the harms associated with both drug use and failed policies.
Membership: national
The purpose is to contribute to the improvement in the quality of health service provision within the framework of respect for human rights. On HIV/AIDS, the organization works to strengthen community approaches to prevention and multi-sectoral collaboration.
Membership: national
The purpose is to organize HIV/STD prevention among vulnerable groups of people, including injecting drug users, female sex workers, and men who have sex with men. It trains specialists and volunteers on teaching prevention and providing social support.
Membership: sub-regional
The organization has membership both in the United States and in Mexico comprised largely of HIV positive people. It provides peer advocacy, treatment education programs, drug donations for use in third world countries, training for speakers’ education bureau, outreach to HIV+ women, and development of case management system and prevention model that includes peer advocates, treatment educators, nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, and social workers.
Membership: national
The organization is an educational institution that provides more than 2,000 credit and non-credit courses in its professional and degree programs. It is the leading and largest private institution for adult education in the country with annual enrollments of approximately 65,000. It has developed an HIV/AIDS Mental Health Counseling curriculum for Namibia in partnership with the University of Namibia.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to end the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV. It provides a comprehensive array of compassionate and critical services including cutting-edge treatment publications, one-on-one treatment consultations, housing assistance and California AIDS Hotline.
Membership: national
The main aim is to promote an end discrimination against gay men. The organization implements projects that enhance dignity of gay men and cooperates with other principled groups towards the realization of the organization objectives. Its HIV/AIDS activities involve largely members’ HIV prevention education, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.
Membership: national
The mission is to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through information, education, communication and counseling. It also aims to contribute to minimize the social, psychological, economic effects of the epidemic by supporting HIV infected and affected persons and their families. It carries out education activities, advocacy and fund-raising to support interventions, organizational development and community mobilization for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Membership: national
The purpose of this organization of people living with HIV/AIDS is for mutual support and self-help. It facilitates access to treatment, health improvement and counseling for positive living. Its current activities include pre and post test counseling, home based care and home visits for people living with HIV and AIDS and orphans, community education, and advocacy for human rights of people living with HIV and AIDS and orphans.
Membership: national
The purpose of the association is to provide social, legal, moral and medical support to HIV/AIDS patients. It also organizes and carries out large-scale advocacy work on AIDS.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to improve the quality of life and dignified death for terminally ill AIDS patients through hospice care.
Membership: national
The purposes of the organization are to prevent the spread of HIV and to provide practical support services and advocate for those whose lives are affected by HIV/AIDS. Its programs include nutritional consultations, transportation services, in-home chore service, full-service case management, insurance continuation, housing assistance, legislative advocacy and prevention and education activities.
Membership: national
The organization is a Christian ministry to those affected by HIV and AIDS. Its services include provision of free information packets, phone counseling, support groups, AIDS education with AIDS educators who are also HIV+, hospital visitation, building homes for HIV+ babies, and working with governments in international settings.
Membership: international
Their mission is to enable people to have children by choice not chance. Their activities aim to empower individuals to exercise their fundamental human right to plan their families and to enjoy good reproductive health. It implements reproductive health programs in accordance with the principles of the ICPD Programme of Action in 39 countries worldwide.
Membership: national
The main purpose is to share information, promote educational and sport activities, promote and support development of mutual helping groups and to promote actions on human rights and solidarity among different groups and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Membership: national
The vision of the organization was to establish an autonomous, sustainable and wholly owned Nepali agency. The organization offers a mix of programs and services designed to meet the emerging needs of individual micro-finance institutions as well as consultation to the sector as a whole.
Membership: national
The organization aims to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS, prevent the spread of the epidemic and mitigate the social impact in the communities through prevention and education programs, advocacy for human rights, and capacity building in appropriate technical areas.
Membership: national
The mission is to collectively strive to make the law accessible to those with least access, through education, law reform, research, litigation, legal advice, representation and lobbying, with the ultimate aim of creating and maintaining human rights culture in Namibia.
Membership: national
The organization is one of the first charitable organizations created to promote the development of an open and democratic society in Ukraine. It supports and provides grants to numerous NGOs in Ukraine, as well as educational, community, cultural and artistic organizations as well as publishing houses in country.
Membership: national
This is an organization of people living with HIV/AIDS. Its purpose is to promote the improvement in the quality of life and the defense of human rights of people infected with HIV or those who develop AIDS, as well as supporting those who are indirectly affected (family, friends, and the community).
Membership: national
The objectives of the organization are to offer psychosocial, material, therapeutic and spiritual support to HIV infected persons and their immediate families, relatives and friends. It initiates and executes in programs and campaigns intended to safeguard the interests of infected persons against discrimination, mistreatment or unkindness of any sort relating to employment, residence, social gathering, among others. It also initiates and promotes schemes for education, economic self-sustenance and community based welfare for orphans left by HIV infected persons.
Membership: international
The purpose of the organization is to assist in the improvement of health of the people in Africa, including improvement of health resulting from economic, agricultural, educational and social development in harmony with the environment.
Membership: regional
The purpose is to increase awareness and reduce the risk in relation to HIV/AIDS and to reduce discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS in the pacific region. It works to increase the capacity of NGOs from the pacific region to carry out HIV/STI prevention and care programs.
Membership: national The purpose of the organization is to coordinate NGOs as well as organizations from the private and public sector and civil society in Guatemala that work in the diverse effort to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS in the country. It works to bring together organizations that work in prevention, treatment issues, human rights and raising public awareness of the epidemic.
5 calle A 1-57
zona 3
Guatemala
Rua dos Médices, 68- Boa Vista
Recife/PE 50070-290
Brazil
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS and to prevent the appearance of new HIV infections. Their work focuses on gender relations, sexual citizenship and communication working with women, teen-agers of Recife, mostly of poor communities. It also provides psychosocial interventions through mutual help groups and legal assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Membership: national
The organization is a New York State Department of Health designated AIDS center. It provides a broad array of services for adult patients living with AIDS.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is prevention and protection from HIV/AIDS by educating youth and teachers about sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. The organization also provides psychosocial support and protection for people living with HIV and AIDS.
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to reduce the spread of the HIV epidemic through prevention activities to inform, educate and capacitate different groups of people in Guatemala. Its activities include training on prevention for business workers, education of the police and the military and training in prevention of AIDS and drugs for public school teachers.
Membership: national
The center aims to promote awareness of the Georgian population on reproductive health issues, including prevention of unwanted pregnancy, STDs and HIV/AIDS, using individual and group counseling and peer education programs. It works with different groups engaged in high-risk behavior including injecting drug users.
Zurab Tatanashvili, Programs Co-ordinator
118 T. Tabidze Street
Tbilisi 380000
Georgia
Membership: national
The major goal of the organization is to provide social, material assistance to people living with HIV. It also carries out prevention campaigns to educate and promote supportive attitudes from society in general.
Yuri Osianu, President
Toma Ciorba 3
Falesti 5903
Republic of Moldova
Membership: national
The organization aims to prevent further spread of HIV infection through propagation of model healthy living and harm reduction. It undertakes awareness raising on AIDS/STD prevention among the general population. It also provides moral support and help for drug users and for those infected with HIV.
Tamar Sirbiladze, Chairman
16 Kavtaradze Street
Tbilisi 380 086
Georgia
Membership: national
The organization aims to decrease the spread of drug addiction in Georgia through preventive measures. It has developed specific programs in alcohol and drug prevention, including harm reduction. It operates a counseling and prevention center.
Graciela Touzé, President
Corrientes 2548 - 1° E
Buenos Aires 1046
Argentina
Membership: national
The association is dedicated to the study of and attention to problems related to drug use. It works to improve the lives of people who use drugs both by providing direct services to this extremely marginalized and vulnerable community, and by lobbying for changes in drug control and public health policy.
Rosario Viana, Vice President
Mercedes 1877/703
CP 11200, Montevideo
Uruguay
Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to support people living with HIV and AIDS and to defend their rights. The organization provides counseling services and support for people living with HIV, their families and friends.
Dr Robinson Cabello
Jr. Paraguay 478
Lima 1
Peru
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to develop STD/HIV/AIDS primary prevention strategies for women and men who have sex with men. It also provides support services to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and to promote and protect their rights, including legal assistance.
Oleksandra Sluzhynska, President
PO Box 320
Lviv 79000
Ukraine
Membership: national
The organization is a charitable foundation concerned with rendering assistance to persons with sexually transmitted infections and HIV, particularly marginal groups at high risk of getting HIV including diagnostic and treatment services. It also provides information to students and workers on HIV prevention.
Md. Shahab Uddin, Chairman
55 Purana Paltan, 3rd Floor
Dhaka 1000
Bangladesh
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to create avenues for production, income and employment oriented activities for the unemployed youth through micro-credit and homestead capital development. It engages in AIDS awareness activities for the general population.
Jean Marie Faucher, Director
94-102, rue de Buzenval
75020 Paris
France
Membership: national
The organization promotes research, communication and action for AIDS treatment. It works particularly with vulnerable migrant populations from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Dr Adeline Kimambo, Program Manager
Ocean Road (National Institute of Medical Research Compound)
P.O. Box 7785
Dar es Salaam
United Republic of Tanzania
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is the promotion of the practice of public health in Tanzania. It provides a forum for discussions and carries out information dissemination. It also promotes research and advocates for policy in favor of health in Tanzania and facilitates the development and dissemination of culturally relevant information to vulnerable groups and/or communities.
Mr Sizwe Shezi, Project Officer
237 Musgrave Road
Durban, Kwa Zulu-Natal 4062
South Africa
Membership: national
The main purpose of the foundation is to manage, mobilize and allocate resources pertaining to AIDS and HIV infection. It sees that organizations and initiatives they work with deliver services of exceptional quality to the communities they serve to address issues related to HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Atty. Uleng Hamid
Jl. S. Iariang 2, Makassar
Indonesia
Membership: national
This organization provides a space for unity and religious teachings. It has been implementing a prevention program on HIV/AIDS with an Islamic approach.
Dr. Milan K. Dinda, Secretary
MIG (L) Block - 5, Flat -7
M.B. Road, Birati Abason
Calcutta 700 049
India
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to serve as a society for professional social work and social science research, training, project intervention, documentation, advocacy and related activities on ICPD Cairo consensus on program of action and sustainable development and patterns of empowerment and activities on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Its mission is to promote and defend the rights of women and men, including adolescent, to decide freely the number and spacing of their children, and the right to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health by developing a sustainable self-reliant society at large.
Wang Kean, President
27 Nan Wei Road
Xuan Wu District
Beijing 100050
China
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to unite, organize and mobilize vast numbers of health workers and the personages of various circles to participate in and evolve the campaign of AIDS prevention and control in the whole society within the scope of National Law. It serves to ensure Chinese health and strengthen the building of socialist spirit as well as material civilizations; and propagates and popularizes the knowledge of STD/AIDS prevention and control among the public.
Francisco Madrigal Ballestero, Coordinator
Avenida 8, calles 1-1 bis
San Pedro, Mts. De Oca
San José
Costa Rica
Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to investigate the status and promotion of all kinds of human rights particularly for socially marginalized groups and minorities. Its work focuses on gay and lesbian populations and people living with HIV and AIDS.
Mr M Puravalen, Secretary
12 Jalan 13/48 A
Boulevard Shop Office Off Jalan Sentul
Kuala Lumpur 51000
Malaysia
Membership: regional
The organization is part of the global International Council of AIDS service organizations. It aims to increase capacity of community based organizations and NGOs to respond to HIV/AIDS and develop coordinated regional response through network building, capacity building and advocacy within the framework of human rights.
Mr Hayden Majajas, Director
#315 Sunrise Shinjuku
Hyakunin-cho
Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-0073
Japan
Membership: national
The main objective of the organization is to impart lasting knowledge and education regarding HIV/AIDS upon its main target audience, young people. Through outreach work and AIDS Charity parties, it seeks to encourage young people to practice safer sex. It also provides support to young people living with HIV.
Gerardo Isaac B. Mitre, President
24 de noviembre 140
(C.P. 1170) Buenos Aires
Argentina
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to work in solidarity with young people and their families to reduce poverty and AIDS through health, education and prevention programs, leading to greater dignity.
Ms. Arati Samajpati
Sector-8 Gandhinagar
Gujarat 382008
India
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to ensure an improvement in the quality of life at the community level through health and education. Its mission is to create awareness, disseminate knowledge and impart life useful education to the community, especially to the children, adolescents and women, including on issues related to HIV/AIDS.
Andrey Protopopov, President
Office 305, Stepnogo Fronta Street
Poltava 36023
Ukraine
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to carry out HIV/AIDS prevention interventions among injecting drug users, sex workers and their clients through education, outreach, information and training on harm reduction. It produces materials that provide information on access to medical and social support.
Dr Suwanna Satha-Anand
c/o CFFC
1436 U Street, NW, Suite 301
Washington, DC 20009
USA
Membership: international
The organization provides for the significant and consistent presence of the international, progressive and interfaith community in both international and local policy development processes regarding early population stabilization, quality reproductive health services, and the alleviation of poverty. It convenes and engages that large segment of the global religious community - from official religious bodies and religiously based NGOs to individual religious and spiritual leaders - whose religious beliefs and values are consistent with the goals and objectives of the United Nations.
Poltgo. Walter Trejo, Focal Point
Av. Romulo Gallegos
Edf. Maracay, piso 11
apto. 21, Urb.
El Marqués, Caracas 1071
Venezuela
Membership: national
This is an organization of people living with HIV/AIDS that seeks to promote the participation and welfare of people living with HIV to improve the quality of their life.
Pablo Anamaria Cardenas, Executive Director
Domingo Cueto 335
3er Piso Lince
Lima 14
Peru
Membership: national
The organization works to support people living with HIV/AIDS to improve the quality of their life and to defend their rights, particularly their right to access to treatments.
Dyachenko Natalya, President
Kirov Street 118/2
Sumy 40021
Ukraine
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to assist in the development and introduction of new approaches in problems of HIV prophylaxis. It works on HIV/AIDS and STD prevention among groups at risk and improvement in lives of people living with HIV, and prevention of negative social consequences, which influence the spread of HIV including, drug use, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Prof. Luc Montagnier, President
1 rue Miollis
Paris 75015
France
Membership: international
The main objective is the development of scientific research and communication in the field of AIDS, including AIDS treatments and vaccine research. It supports and collaborates with research institutes in a number of countries for this purpose.
Maria Ines Re
Paraná 135 Piso 3ro.
Dpto. 13
Buenos Aires 1017
Argentina
Membership: national
The aim of the organization is to develop research, studies, programs, training and other activities to improve social, labor, legal, political, economic, family health and women's status in Argentina.
Ms Joanne Carter, Legislative Director
440 1st Street, NW Suite 450
Washington DC 20001
USA
Membership: international
The purpose of the organization is to create public will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty through education, events, media coverage and research. It has worked to increase US investment in global TB control, as it is one of the leading infectious killer of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Sr Dr. Raphaela Händler, CEO
17 Jan Jonker Road
POB 11525 Windhoek
Namibia
Membership: national
The organization builds on Roman Catholic affiliated groups and institutions to inspire and support programs of HIV/AIDS prevention, home-based care, spirituality and support for orphans. The organization is represented on all governmental task forces dealing with HIV/AIDS, as they relate to social services, medical care and health, policy and planning, counseling or training.
Lucia-Maria Stirbu, Executive Director
Calea Mosilor, no.225
bl.33-35, sc.B, et 2, ap.39
Bucharest, Secteur 2
Romania
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to organize and sustain concrete actions for the benefit of Romanian HIV positive people within the frame created by the UN Convention on Human Rights. It is composed of 18 federations and associations of HIV positive persons.
Irene López Severino, Executive Director
Calle Montecristy No. 50, 2do.piso
Apartado Postal 3316
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Membership: national
The main aim of the organization is to contribute to the prevention of STDs/HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic. It helps both public and private organizations to develop their prevention programs in these areas, including education on rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and their access to medical and psychosocial support. It develops services for people living with HIV and AIDS and their families.
Dorothy Manuel
c/o ZERO Regional Environment Organization
158 Fife Avenue, Harare
Zimbabwe
Membership: regional
The main mission of the organization is to assist in the continuous upliftment of rural livelihoods, through community based and community-driven programs in five SADC countries namely: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It aims to develop adequate capacity for rural communities to manage and sustain their own development as well as assist in policy development and implementation that contributes to improved rural livelihoods.
Marie Rose Sawadogo, Executive Director
15-151 Ouagadougou
Kadiogo 06 BP 10220
Ouagadogou 06
Burkina Faso
Membership: national
The main purpose is to reduce the transmission of HIV in Burkina Faso through strengthening the mobilizing capacity of communities as well as stimulating and supporting activities of NGOs, associations and grassroots organizations involved in the response to the AIDS epidemic.
Ms Mamotsamai Ranneileng, Chairperson
Maseru 100
Lesotho
Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to facilitate sharing of information and resources related to HIV/AIDS work among NGOs, CBOs, National AIDS Programme, and other interested individuals and agencies. It promotes collaboration and cooperation among its member organizations. It also promotes coherent and supportive non-discriminatory policies on medical, social, economic, political, legal, ethical and religious matters affecting people with HIV infection and AIDS and their families.
Adele Webb, President
11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 8
Reston, Virginia 20190-5202
USA
Membership: international
This is a professional organization committed to fostering the individual and collective professional development of nurses involved in the delivery of health care to persons infected or affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and to promoting the health, welfare, and rights of all HIV-infected persons.
Martha Koome, Chairperson
Mucai Drive, off Ngong Road
Nairobi, PO Box 46324
Kenya
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to offer legal advice and representation to women in need and to create awareness of legal rights and educate women on how to claim through self-representation in courts. It also works to create public awareness on women's rights issues, legislative reform, monitoring and advocacy.
Françoise Bigirimana, President
Boulevard de l'Independence n° 133
Bujumbura 6301
Burundi
Membership: national
The organization has two principal objectives. One is to prevent HIV/STD infections and sustain the fight of individuals and communities of women in society. It also aims to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS and to support people living with HIV and AIDS and their families to better understand the nature of the disease and help them face the impact of HIV/AIDS on their lives.
Mr J.J. Bertrand, Chairman and CEO
2 Avenue Pont Pasteur
Lyon 69367
France
Membership: international
This private sector organization is a world leader in vaccines and the third largest AIDS research program in the world. It contributes to the protection and improvement of human health by creating superior immunological products for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and cancers.
Hakima Himmich, President
17 Boulevard Al Massira Al Khadra - Maârif
Casablanca 20100
Morocco
Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to assist medical services to fulfill their role in relation to providing services for people living with HIV. The organization provides direct support to people living with HIV, including promoting respect and protecting their human rights. It is also engaged in HIV prevention education.
Anne-Marie Helland, Special Advisor HIV/AIDS
Sandakerveien 74
P.O. Box 45 44 Nydalen
Oslo 0404
Norway
Membership: international
The organization is one of the largest development agencies in Norway that is a church-based organization. It works with long-term development assistance, emergency relief and advocacy across the globe. It works mainly with locally established partners and provides professional and financial assistance, including training and other forms of cooperation aimed at building up locally based programs. It has projects and partners in more than 70 countries on a wide range of development related topics, including HIV and AIDS.
Leonardo Ernesto Sánchez Marte
Yolanda Guzman #183 (2do.Piso)
Villa Maria, Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to create and maintain a safe space for the gay community to undertake prevention programs and services that stop the spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic. It aims to contribute to the defense of human rights of this community and improve the quality of their life, including health, to contribute towards the development of an equal and just society.
Santo Rosario Ramírez
Anibal de Espinosa #352
Villas Agrícolas, Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of socially marginalised groups, particularly women migrants, sex workers, urban industrial workers in conditions of poverty through education, information, communication and social integration.
Craig Thompson, Executive Director
1313 N. Vine Street
Los Angeles, California 91803
USA
Membership: national
The organization is a community based organization that is a direct provider and resource for HIV/AIDS services and information, and an advocate at all levels of government for people with HIV/AIDS. It is committed to serving all people infected by, affected by and at risk for HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County and provides quality services to its diverse client base.
William Powderly, MD, Chair
99 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 210
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
USA
Membership: national
This is an organization of more than 5,000 physicians and scientists whose mission is to promote and recognize excellence in patient care, education, research, public health and prevention in the field of infectious diseases.
António José Malta de Carvalho Leite
Avenida Cidade Hayward C1
D2 Caves Vale Carneiros
Algarve-Faro, Apartado 495-8003 Faro
Portugal
Membership: national
The organization aims to support the community in all of Argave region regarding HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, sexuality and homelessness. It services include a day Centre for occupational training and workshops, a night crisis Centre, self help and support groups, counseling and psychosocial support, home care and prevention programs among others.
Rodrigo Pascal, President
Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue 131
Recoleta, Santiago
Chile
Membership: national
This is an organization of people living with HIV/AIDS in Chile. Its main purpose is to improve quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS by defending their rights as citizens and advocating their access to treatments of several kinds, including optimum therapy to treat HIV/AIDS. It is also engaged in prevention activities and networking with other organizations.
Ashok Pillai, President
Flat No 6, 93 South West Boag Road
T. Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 017
India
Membership: national
The organization is a national network of, for and by people living with HIV/AIDS in India. It aims to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV by providing a sense of belonging and support. It works towards improved access to treatment and information as well as promotes social acceptance of people living with HIV and AIDS to end stigma and discrimination.
Nelcia Robinson, Coordinator
Membership: regional
The organization aims to promote and support the continued growth and development of the feminist movement in the entire region; research and document the situation of women in the region from the perspectives of ethnicity, class, culture, and gender relations; and influence policy at national, regional and international levels.
Mr Russell Dickson, Acting Chief Executive
Studio 325, Highgate Studios
53-79 Highgate Road
London NW5 1TL
UK
Membership: international
The organization works for the improvement of the quality of life worldwide by advancing the right of all people to exercise free and informed reproductive health choice and to have access to confidential sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning. In particular, it promotes the right of women and young people to have effective access to those services and the right of women of all ages to an education, which enhances their economic and social standing.
Janis Spire, Chief Operating Officer
805 15th Street, Suite 500
Washington DC 20005
USA
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to identify, fund and conduct critical pediatric research that will lead to better treatments and prevention of HIV infection in infants and children, to reduce and prevent HIV transmission from mother to child and to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for other serious life-threatening pediatric diseases.
Dr Tadao Shimao, Chair
Membership: national
The main purpose of this foundation is to disseminate knowledge on the prevention of AIDS, to assist studies for the prevention and transmission of AIDS, and to conduct international exchanges of information on AIDS so as to contribute to enhance health and welfare of the people.
John McGoldrick, Executive Vice President
345 Park Avenue, New York,
NY 10154-0037
USA
Membership: international
This is a publicly traded company with shareholders throughout the world. It is a leading diversified worldwide health and personal care company whose principal businesses are medicines, beauty care, and nutritional and medical devices. Its involvement in the area of HIV/AIDS includes research and development for HIV/AIDS treatments, marketing of various products for HIV/AIDS, Secure the Future, a philantrophic program to prevent HIV/AIDS among women and children in certain African countries.
Tim France, Director
Membership: international
The mission of the organization is to mobilize a more effective response to HIV/AIDS and other health-and-development-related issues by improving information, communication and the quality of debate. It uses largely the electronic forums to strengthen communication on these issues.
Hon. Martha Karua, Chairperson
Muchai Drive off Ngong Road
Nairobi
Kenya
Membership: national
The organization aims to empower women so as to increase their participation on an equal basis with their male counter parts in the political, economic and social spheres and to solve problems they face as a community. It aims to sensitize society on gender related issues especially cultural practices that hinder women's development and lobby for legislative amendments that discriminate against women.
Julie Vullnetari, Cultural Advocate
PO Box 1152
Balastya 6764
Hungary
Membership: national
The foundation is committed to the regeneration of community in Southern Hungary. It seeks to do this through provision of non-prejudicial and non-discriminatory opportunities to those who have been marginalised by the violence of exploitation, prejudice and intolerance. It has particular regard for the special needs of women and girl children, who participate in prostitution.
Wamimbi Richard, Coordinator
Nakulabye Balintuma Road
PO Box 27346
Kampala
Uganda
Membership: national
The goals of the organization are to strengthen the capacity of individual AIDS Service Organisations (ASOs) through joint resource mobilization, sharing information, expertise and skills development. It serves as a focal point for developing guidelines, standards, planning, monitoring and evaluation of ASOs. It supports organizational development among NGOs and community based organizations and advocates for interests of the service providers and beneficiaries.
Allan G. Ragi, Executive Director
Membership: national
This is a leading network for NGOs, community based organizations and religious institutions in Kenya committed to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support through provision of current and practical information. It provides a forum for sharing and builds the capacity of its members to provide quality services in response to HIV/AIDS epidemic. It tries to complement government effort in the development and articulation of relevant national policies on HIV/AIDS.
Sean Darragh
Membership: national
This private sector organization represents the country's leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, happier, and more productive lives. Investments of its member companies in discovering and developing new medicines are leading the way in the search for new cures.
Maître Augustin Musas Zand
Mobilisi, Kinshasa 9645
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Membership: national
The aim of the organization is to study, promote an effective framework and the support of development projects for rural communities, illiterate population and unemployed youth, for their education and information. Certain projects supported by the organization include the creation of a rural dispensary for the relief and care of the communities in relation to HIV prevention and care.
Mr Martin Zogg, Director of International Operations
11500 W. Olympic Boulevard, Suite 506
Los Angeles, California 90064-1524
USA
Membership: international
The organization is a global humanitarian, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and medical relief programs. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that increase local capacity and are sustainable in the long-term. In the past two decades, it has responded to public health and medical emergencies in 23 countries on four continents.
Smali Mohamed , Vice President
des Jardins BP 60
Tébessa 12005
Algeria
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to get blood donations. It has developed a national plan based on volunteers with the aim of providing support to people who have HIV and AIDS, their families, and friends, without regard for age, nationality, religion or sexual orientation.
Anna Nowak
ul. Malkowskiego 9/2
Szczecin 70-305
Poland
Membership: national
The main aim of the organization is to counteract the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through information on safer sexual behavior. It implements education and training programs on HIV/AIDS and STI prevention.
Merle Mendonca, Programme Coordinator
56B Austin Place and Hadfield Street
Georgetown, PO Box 10653
Guyana
Membership: national
The purpose is to monitor and defend civil and political rights, especially those relating to the administration of justice, freedom of expression and democracy. It also works to secure the economic, social and cultural rights of vulnerable people of society, especially women, children, indigenous people, people with disabilities, persons living with HIV/AIDS and prisoners.
Mme Odette Chantal Tiomo, President
Dschang, Ouest
BP 342 DSCHANG
Cameroon
Membership: international
The organization promotes the development of communities in Africa. It promotes community based initiatives and supports micro credit programs, education on modern technologies, defense and protection of rights of indigenous people, literacy programs for the youth and indigenous people, and protection of health of indigenous people and other youth engaged in micro-initiatives and community development.
Datuk Dr Raj Karim, Regional Director
Membership: regional
This organization is part of the global IPPF. It is committed to promote sexual and reproductive health in the region through advocacy efforts and by building the capacity of its members to play a lead role in providing means for affordable, accessible and quality sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning. It advocates among volunteers, decision-makers and opinion leaders at the regional and national levels, better understanding of family planning and sexual and reproductive health issues affecting the region.
Raymond Martin, Executive Director
1817 Rupert Street
McLean, Virginia 22101
USA
Membership: international
The mission is to promote international health and wholeness from a Christian perspective. The organization provides field-oriented information resources and a forum for discussion, networking, and fellowship to the spectrum of Christian organizations and individuals working in international health.
Prof. Jorge Adrian Beloqui, Vice-President
Rua Capitão Cavalcanti 145
São Paulo 04017-000
Brazil
Membership: national
The organization is mainly formed by people living with HIV and AIDS with non-positive volunteers to provide services and support to HIV positive people and improve their quality of life.
Mme Mali Mint Sidi, Secretary General
Ksar, Nouakchott
BP 2477
Mauritania
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to promote and protect the rights of women and children. It carries out prevention and care activities on HIV/AIDS, both in urban and rural areas including, a center for nutrition and rehabilitation for street children, seminars on HIV/AIDS prevention, awareness raising on reproductive health, and creation of a Centro for community health for rural women.
Francina Nyirenda, National Coordinator
Old Chlleka Road, HHI
BT Synod Premises
Blantryre 265
Malawi
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to coordinate HIV/AIDS activities and promote collaboration and interaction among AIDS service organizations. It also aims to mobilize and allocate resources to these groups for the benefit of Malawi society. It seeks to liaise closely with the National AIDS Control Program and the donor community.
Emilia Adriano, Executive Director
Membership: national
This is an umbrella organization of different NGOs that dedicate their work against AIDS in Mozambique. Its objectives include to mobilize the general community through NGOs, religious institutions and other social, economic and professional sectors to be involved in AIDS related work and to promote prevention through education activities and support of people living with HIV/AIDS.
David Chizao Ngele, National Chairman
Membership: national
This is an organization of people living with HIV and AIDS in Botswana. It main objective is to facilitate the formation of support groups of people living with HIV and AIDS in Botswana. It seeks to share information, ideas, experiences and resources between and among these support groups and to facilitate the coordination of HIV/AIDS programs of such support groups to enhance their role and impact. It also engages in income generating projects that will improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Ms Rantona Koketso, Chairperson
Gibadwe, Village Plot 5281
Gabarone City Council
PO Box 3129
Botswana
Membership: national
The objectives of the organization is to facilitate networking, sharing of information, best practices among member organizations and partner institutions. It promotes advocacy and policy and decision making; provides capacity building training to member organizations; and coordinates efforts of NGOs and community based organizations to avoid unnecessary duplication of services and competition for scarce resources.
Graciela Salvador-Davila, President
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to promote safe and satisfying sexuality through participatory processes in defense of human rights and responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It's objective is to mobilize organizations to include HIV/AIDS into their area of work. With those already working on HIV/AIDS, it helps to improve the quality and coverage of their work. It promotes a broader understanding of HIV/AIDS as a development issue that includes gender, education, human rights, and reproductive health among others.
Louise D. Binder, Co-chair
Membership: national
People living with HIV/AIDS direct the organization. It advocates to ensure the research and development of safe and effective HIV/AIDS treatments, a cure for HIV/AIDS, and equitable, affordable and timely access to all HIV treatments.
Carmen Murguía Pardo, Coordinator
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to develop models, programs and interventions on sexual and reproductive health to prevent HIV infection particularly among adolescents and young people.
Membership: national
The objectives of the Organization are to raise awareness of women and young people in particular, and the public in general regarding health, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS and nutrition.
Octavio Valente Junior, President
Av. Rio Branco, 135
Grupo 709
Rio de Janeiro 20040-006
Brazil
Membership: national
People living with HIV/AIDS, their friends and family form the organization. It develops a wide range of activities in both the fields of care and prevention that actively involves and empowers people living with HIV and AIDS. Its activities include public education, legal support service, outreach education for specific communities, home based care and care and treatment education among others.
Raymond V Gilmartin, Chairman, President & CEO
One Merck Drive
Whitehouse Station
New Jersey 08889-0100
USA
Membership: international
This is a global research driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of human and animal health products, directly through its joint ventures and provides pharmaceutical benefit services through Merck-Medco Managed Care. The company provided a grant that led to Enhancing Care Initiative, a multinational program that aims to enhance the care of men, women and children living with HIV or AIDS in resource-scarce countries.
Robert D. Thompson, CEO
Membership: international
The main purpose of this private corporation is to create, combine and collaborate to be the world's best oral fluid diagnostics company. It develops, manufactures and markets medical devices and diagnostic products for use by public and private sector clients, clinical laboratories, physicians' offices and workplace testing. It is the leading supplier of oral fluid collection devices and assays to the life insurance industry and public health markets for the detection of antibodies to HIV.
Lofom House
21 Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way
P.M.B. 21178
Ikeja
Nigeria
Membership: national
The aim of the organization is to work with women’s groups particularly and other community based organizations to strengthen their capacity to identify and address women and adolescent health problems. It works with 21 women’s groups in 10 states of the country integrating HIV/AIDS information and education in their projects for youth and women alike.
Dr Michael Sinclair, Senior Vice President
1450 G Street, NW, Suite 250
Washington DC 20005
USA
Membership: international
The organization is an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues in the United States and South Africa. Its HIV/AIDS work is focused on informing the national policy discussion about the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the context of a changing treatment and health care delivery and financing system. The work involves issues of health care coverage, financing, access to care, and prevention, particularly for those increasingly impacted by the epidemic, including women, people of color and young people.
Dr Jorge Benetucci, President
Rodriguez Peña 1385 3°C
Buenos Aires 1021
Argentina
Membership: national
The organization works for the prevention, care and research on AIDS and other retroviruses within the country. It provides medical and laboratory services, psychological support to patients and their relatives. It also offers training programs for professional education.
Ms Akhila Sivadas, Executive Director
C-100 B, First Floor, Kalkaji
New Delhi 1100019
India
Membership: national
The organization is committed to advocacy and research in, and on, the media, in order to strengthen the gender and development perspective of the mass media. It monitors print, radio and television. It also conducts surveys on emerging trends. With the research results, it creates awareness about crucial issues amongst media, advocates for better and more informed representation about gender and development issues such as HIV/AIDS, child rights, and violence against marginalised groups.
Janet Midori Ikeda, Co-Director
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to strengthen the local organizations of rural indigenous communities in Southwestern Guatemala. It trains local health promoters and midwives with methodological tools that promote democratic participation and assist the community in formulating systematic strategies to improve their reproductive health and prevent STI and HIV/AIDS infection.
Milton B. Amayun, Vice President, International Programs
17011 W Hickory
Spring Lake MI 49456-9712
USA
Membership: international
The purpose of the organization is to provide Christian service, both material and spiritual to the ill, the elderly, children and the needy without regard to race, color, creed or gender and to support and assist organizations which operate for similar purposes.
Dr Maria José F. Campos, Vice President
Membership: national
The goals of the organization are to support people affected by HIV/AIDS; to train and educate health workers involved with HIV/AIDS; and to prevent HIV in general population, with particular focus on young people, drug users, sex workers, women, people in prisons and other vulnerable groups. It advocates against discrimination and promotes and defends the rights of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Ricardo de Sena
Membership: international
The organization is dedicated to the promotion of world peace through education programs, workshops, conferences, and publications. It seeks to encourage and support the efforts of world leaders from all disciplines and to build coalitions among a wide range of non-governmental, religious, cultural and educational institutions in advocating solutions to pressing world problems.
Mr Doan Van Thai, Chief of Office
Membership: national
This is an umbrella social organization of youth and youth structures in Vietnam. Its objectives are to rally and unite all forces of the Vietnamese youth to strive to bring the country out of poverty and backwardness towards a prosperous people, a strong country and an equitable and civilized society and to bring happiness and progress of the youth.
Denese Shervington, Chair, Board of Directors
1600 Canal Street, Suite 706
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
USA
Membership: international
The mission of the institute is to improve the physical, mental, and spiritual health and quality of life of women of color and their families. Its goal is to develop culturally proficient, multi-disciplinary and holistic health intervention programs, activities, and research models for women, adolescents, and people of color that promote health and quality life through social change, public policy and collaboration in research, medical education, health advocacy and policy development.
Paul Kawata, Executive Director
1931 13th Street, NW
Washington DC 20009-4432
USA
Membership: national
The organization is dedicated to developing leadership within communities of color to address the challenge of HIV/AIDS. As the only national organization that is a voice for communities of color infected and affected with HIV/AIDS, it carries out advocacy work, technical assistance training and treatment training for community-based organizations they work with to develop leadership within communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.
Claudia French, Executive Director
Membership: national
The organization's mission is to mobilize support for people affected by HIV/AIDS and the community based organizations that it serves until no more people become HIV infected. It represents 3,200 of the nation's leading community-based AIDS organizations and the millions of Americans they serve. It advocates for fair and effective national AIDS policies that prevent new infections, and ensure access to care and fortify the search for a genuine cure.
Mikael Norling, President
Membership: international
The organization is a member of the Federations of Associations connected to the International Humana People to People Movement. Its mission is to fund development projects and works to inform people in the US about development issues in the countries it supports.
Joan Tallada, President
Membership: national
The organization is the local community network engaged in the development and preparation of the community program during the 14th International Conference, July 2002 in Barcelona. Its goal is to provide its member organizations with the necessary instruments and abilities to improve their personal realities in relation to HIV.
Pooven Moodley, Director
Suite 11a, 16 Chartwell Drive
Umhlanga, Kwa-Zulu Natal 4320
South Africa
Membership: regional
The mission is to educate and give youth the skills they need in the fight against HIV/AIDS through the medium of popular entertainment. The goal is to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS among African youth and to scale up the response towards the epidemic by forming synergistic partnerships throughout Africa. Its five key areas of focus are communication, advocacy, fundraising, networking and capacity building.
Rooman Arif, Project Leader
11, Shiv Path, Suraj Nagar West
Civil Lines, Jaipur
Rajasthan 302 006
India
Membership: national
The main objective is to assist in the process of creating the basis for social and economic development in India, especially for people living below the poverty line. It aims to improve these conditions by undertaking a series of development work and projects in the areas where it is most needed.
Ahmed Bayzid, Executive Director
Cha-89/2/1, Thana Road
North Badda, Dhaka-1212
Membership: national
The objectives are to work with the poor and underprivileged groups of the community, who are living with vulnerability to educate them on how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. They seek to organize the poor and vulnerable groups, particularly women, to enhance their economic benefit through different alternative income generating activities. They also help to educate these vulnerable groups to protect themselves from diseases, including HIV/AIDS and STDs.
Sandra F. Batista, Executive Director
Padre Anchieta 1007/31
Curitiba, Parana 80430-060
Brazil
Membership: regional
The mission is to promote harm reduction actions associated with drug use, having as a priority to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, observing the guidelines of public health, human rights and citizenship in Latin America. It promotes and disseminates harm reduction as an effective and valid strategy to approach the problems related to drug use.
Dr Eloan Dos Santos Pinheiro, Executive Director
Membership: national
This is a specialist technical body. It operates to plan, organize, control and give technical orientation to activities involving research, technical development and manufacture of drugs, medicines and other prophylactic products in order to supply health programs and to meet the requirements arising from the country's policy of autonomy in technical areas. It also is responsible for training human resources in this specialist area.
Ken Malone, Executive Director
Membership: national
The organization was established to assist people living with AIDS by paying their health insurance premiums and the cost for emergency prescriptions until they qualify for Medicare. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of those living with HIV/AIDS and other debilitating diseases by providing financial assistance to maintain continuity of medical care.
Keith Egan, Executive Director
19 Gordon's Alley
Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401
USA
Membership: national
The organization aims to promote the well being of people infected with HIV; to provide a support environment for family members and friends; and for charitable, scientific and educational purpose related activities.
Mr Nathan Stirling, Chief Executive Officer
339 Ferrars Street
South Melbourne
Victoria 3205
Australia
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to improve the well being and self-worth of alienated and excluded street children through unconditional support, whenever and wherever necessary, with the view to reconnecting them with the community.
Rev Canon Dr. Raphael Mwita Akiri, General Secretary
Seventh Street, Dodoma
PO Box 899 Dodoma Region
United Republic of Tanzania
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to improve health and social services for those people provided for by the Anglican dioceses in Tanzania. It seeks to further the healing ministry of Christ through promotion, collaboration and provision of quality, holistic, curative, preventative and rehabilitative health care and social services for all, especially to those most in need.
Craig Kramer, Director, Federal Affairs
Membership: international
This company is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical and professionals markets.
Ms Janet Howard, Vice President, International Relations
800 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 711
Washington DC 20006
USA
Membership: international
This is a private sector organization. As part of its commitment to responsible corporate citizenship, it established the Coca-Cola Foundation in Africa that will work with various organizations in the African continent, including on AIDS related issues.
C. Hardwick, Senior Vice President, Government & Public Affairs
235 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
USA
Membership: international
This is a research based pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets leading prescription medicines for humans and animals, as well as many of the world’s best-known consumer products. It is dedicated to helping humanity and delivering exceptional financial performance by discovering, developing and providing innovative health care products that lead to healthier and more productive lives.
John Demsey, President
130 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
USA
Membership: international
This is a fund that was established in 1994 to help bring support to men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS as a way of "giving" back to the community. It continues to nourish and support the fund through the sales of its VIVA glam lipsticks and its seasonal Kids Helping Kids program. Every cent raised goes to MACAIDS Fund. In addition, around the world and throughout the year, the company, its make-up artists and its staff, support and participate in the fund-raising efforts of many community-based AIDS-related organizations.
Vicki Ehrich, Manager
GWHW, Berkeley Avenue
Greenford, Middlesex UB6 0NN
UK
Membership: international
This is a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company. It's mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. It also has leadership in four major therapeutic areas - anti-infective, central nervous system (CNS), respiratory and gastro-intestinal/ metabolic. In addition, it is a leader in the important area of vaccines.
Arturo Diaz Betancourt
Canarias No. 45
Colonia San Simón Ticumac
D.F. 03660
Mexico
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to support the institutional development and sustainability of the organization in order to enlarge the impact of its information dissemination on AIDS/STD, health and reproductive health, aimed at young people. It also tries to strengthen its advocacy and collaboration with government institutions to advocate and promote policies on reproductive rights and reproductive health care for its young population.
Ticharwa Masimira, Chairman
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to coordinate and develop the capacity of its 140 NGO/Aids Service Organization members as well as to carry out lobbying and advocacy efforts. It also does resource mobilization to support the network programs and activities.
Sergio Rodrigo Montealegre Bueno, National Coordinator
Membership: national
This is an organization of people living with HIV and AIDS. The organization works to defend, protect and promote human rights of people living with HIV and AIDS, their partners, families and other vulnerable groups. It develops and implements capacity building and education programs on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. It participates in the National Council on HIV/AIDS.
Jorge Herrera Fernandéz, President
Nicolás Acosta N° 633
La Paz 1329
Bolivia
Membership: national
The aim of the organization is to offer integral care for people living with HIV and AIDS regarding access to anti-retroviral medicines, prophylactic medicines, medical/clinic and laboratory services, social and psychological support and legal services, which are appropriate. It coordinates with 37 other institutions and NGOs that work with HIV and AIDS issues as part of the national committee on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS.
Priscilla Alexander, Director of Research and Policy
2785 Broadway, 4L
New York, NY 10025-2834
USA
Membership: regional
The purpose of the organization is to work at ways and means to provide better conditions to current and former sex workers. It encourages research in this area, produces position papers on various related issues, and provides expert testimony to government bodies on such issues.
Mitchell Warren, Director
875 Michigan Avenue, Suite 3660
Chicago, Illinois 60611
USA
Membership: international
The primary focus of the organization is to research and develop programs that reach out to women to help them stay healthy. Their main work is education and outreach that focus on improving interventions that can improve women’s reproductive health. It supports research and programs directed to communication, education and outreach in communities in all regions around the world.
Christine Stegling, Coordinator
Membership: national
The primary mission of the organization is to integrate an ethical, legal and human rights dimension into the response to the AIDS epidemic. It works to address the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in order to combat discrimination and marginalisation. In particular, it supports public health interests by establishing an environment that allows people to protect themselves and others from infection without the violation of basic human rights.
James Sizya, Regional Steering Committee
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to create a forum for rural women and girls from which they could speak out and also to improve their health, social and economic status. Its activities include capacity building and advocacy on HIV/AIDS related issues, home based care and counseling, paralegal training for widows and caretakers, psychosocial support to orphans and their caretakers, and promotion of income generating activities.
Kelvin Chiposwa, Secretary General
Membership: national
The mission is to provide timely, appropriate and acceptable humanitarian services to the most vulnerable groups through well managed programs in the fields of health education and services, disaster preparedness and relief, youth development, information and dissemination and branch development.
Balla Musa Silla, Executive Director
Membership: international
The organization is an intergovernmental alliance created to improve and accelerate the transfer of expertise in reproductive health and family planning through South-to-South cooperation.
Michael Nyenhuis, President and CEO
Membership: international
The organization promotes the total health of people living in the world's poorest communities by partnering in the provision of essential medicines, prevention and eradication of disease, and promotion of community health development.
Laura Hernandèz, Coordinator
Serapio Rendòn # 57-B
Colonia San Rafael 06470
Mèxico
Membership: national
The organization seeks to promote a culture of respect for human rights and to defend persons or groups whose human rights have been violated. Its areas of work include research and analysis, legal defense, education and training, investigation and documentation of abuse, international advocacy, communication and defense of persons with HIV/AIDS.
Dr Peter Lamptey, Executive Vice President
2101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22201
USA
Membership: international
The organization works to improve reproductive and family health around the world through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programs. It works in partnership with universities, ministries of health and non-governmental organizations, conducting ongoing projects in the U.S. and more than 40 developing countries. It also strengthens programs in developing countries to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and improve care for people with HIV/AIDS.
Victoria Villanueva, General Coordinator
Juan Pablo Fernandini 1550
Pueblo Libre, Lima
Peru
Membership: national
The organization is committed to the development of the country from a feminist standpoint. It strives to contribute to the empowerment of the women in the country to enable them to play a role in transforming daily life and politics. It provides training and legal assistance. It also promotes and defends women's rights in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, income generation, political participation and leadership.
Ms Helen Ditsebe, Coordinator
PO Box 50349
Gabarone
Botswana
Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to foster the spirit of cooperation, care and support through involving members in the fight against HIV/AIDS, promotion of development projects, provide training for self-counseling, assisting members to cope with the impact of AIDS. Its services address needs of young people, women, and people living with HIV and AIDS.
Ms Lori Heise, Director
1800 K Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington DC 20006
USA
Membership: international
This is a broad based international effort designed to build support among policy makers, opinion leaders and the general public for increased private and public sector investment into microbicides - products that women and men could use to protect themselves and their partners from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Ben Cheng, Assistant Director/Informations & Advocacy
205 13th Street, Suite 2001
San Francisco, California 94103
USA
Membership: national
The organization is dedicated to providing free, confidential, and empowering information to anyone who asks. It is also committed to advocating for speeding up the search for a cure. It provides vital information on diagnostic and treatment of HIV diseases to HIV infected individuals, their caregivers, and their healthcare and service providers.
F. Chimalizeni, Chairperson
Private Bag 7, Mponela
Malawi
Membership: national
The aim of this community-based organization is to reduce the spread of HIV in Mponela and the provision of care to people affected with HIV/AIDS. It works by assisting Mponela community in dealing with the impact of HIV/AIDS through promotion of information on HIV/AIDS.
M. Zeddam Adel, President
Service de Medicine Legale
CH4 Alger Centre
Alger 16000
Algeria
Membership: national
The main objective of the organization is to promote the health of the individual and the community. It is engaged in information, education and communication activities on HIV/AIDS prevention. It provides counseling services and contributes to the study and research on AIDS.
Virginia Davis Floyd, Director
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
USA
Membership: international
The foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Its goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international co-operation and advance human achievement. It believes that the best way to meet this challenge is to encourage initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located. It promotes collaboration among the non profit, government and business sectors, and also seeks to ensure participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society.
Paul Derstine, President
P.O. Box 429
New Windsor, Maryland 211776
USA
Membership: international
The organization is a nonprofit association of 12 relief and development agencies that represent a constituency of churches in America and throughout the world. Its serves its member agencies through coordination of collaborative programs that assist in strengthening overseas member-related health care structures that serve the poorest of the poor without regard to ethnicity, creed, color, gender, national origin or political affiliation.
Elisabeth Maria Vieira Gonçalves, Coordinator
Rua Monte Aprazivel, 199
São Paulo 04513-030
Brazil
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to contribute to the advancement of learning and implement innovative and mobilizing actions in sexuality education and sexual health to promote the well being of individuals and communities. It has developed STD/AIDS prevention directed to young people in the State of São Paulo in partnership with the National STD/AIDS Coordination.
Bill Roedy, President
180 Oxford Street
London W1N 0DS
UK
Membership: international
The organization is part of Viacom, a publicly traded company with shareholders throughout the world. It is very active in the HIV/AIDS area. It has produced "Staying Alive" and AIDS awareness targeting young people. MTV regularly airs AIDS Public Service Announcements. It is currently the chair of the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS.
Pelucy Ntambirweki, Executive Director
2 Tagore Crescent
P.O. Box 8419, Kampala
Uganda
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to improve the quality of life of needy orphans by empowering the local communities/duty bearers to meet the social, moral and economic rights and needs of the children in a sustainable manner. Their programs include child support and care, youth skills development, counseling services, lobbying and advocacy and community capacity development through economic empowerment and awareness on social issues that directly impact the lives of the orphan families.
Marcela Howell, Director of Public Affairs
1025 Vermont Avenue, Suite 200
Washington DC 20005
USA
Membership: international
The organization champions efforts that help young people in the United States and in developing countries make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. It provides information, technical assistance, and training to youth-serving professionals, policy makers, and the media about what works in preventing teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Executive Director
#13, Jaganathan Road
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 034
India
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to improve the health and life styles of the disempowered, with particular reference to women, children and young people. It aims to empower the vulnerable and stigmatized sections of society, to enable them to lead economically and socially independent and self-reliant live.
Melba Butler, Executive Director
2090 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.
New York, NY 10027
USA
Membership: national
This is a child welfare agency whose mission is to serve and assist children and their families in crisis and distress. Its services include foster care, adoption, preventive services and related assistance to children and their families to enable them to live in a stable and nurturing environment. On AIDS, it provides inexpensive nutritious meals, handles the case management of Medicaid recipients infected with HIV/AIDS, and provides women's supportive services for people without Medicaid coverage.
Mrs. Hannatu L. Ibrahim, President
224, Ikorodu Road, Palmgrove
Shomolu Layout
Lagos
Nigeria
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to provide charitable services and information to help men and women; especially youths to exercise their basic human and reproductive rights so as to meet their reproductive health and responsible family formation goals.
Antonio Zini, President
Via Magini, 6
Bologna 40139
Italy
Membership: national and international
The organization aims to promote knowledge, study and initiatives associated with the fight against underdevelopment and hunger in the world, basing its work on the values of human solidarity and the defense of human rights. It works to set in motion a variety of initiatives, including research and preparation of documents relating to health education and to appropriate health technology to fight against transmitted diseases, to hygiene and environmental recovery, and to hygiene and safety in the workplace among others.
Potlako Molethe, Chairman
Private Bag X035
The Village, Gabarone
Botswana
Membership: national
The main objective of the organization is to establish and provide hospice programmed of care in accordance with the Standards of care of Hospice Association of Southern Africa. Its objectives include promoting within the community the objectives of Hospice; raising funds to establish, provide and maintain an ongoing Hospice program of care; and selecting, training and managing a team of remunerated and voluntary personnel to carry out the objectives of Hospice.
Yolande Harmsworth
156 George Street
Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
Australia
Membership: national and international
The organization aims to assist in development processes that will meet the needs of people who are suffering from hunger, poverty, disease, ignorance, economic exploitation or the effects of environmental degradation. It educates people living in Australia in the essential purposes of development and to raise funds to support development activity both in country and overseas.
Feliciano Reyna Ganteaume, President
Avenida Orinoco
Quinta Los Olivos
Bello Monte, Caracas 1040
Venezuela
Membership: national
The organization has two main goals of information and prevention. Its mission is to provide a bridge between the US and Latin America to share experiences on HIV/AIDS in the areas of information and prevention, medical and scientific research, and quality of life improvement for people living with HIV/AIDS. Its programs and services include HIV/AIDS Hotline, workshops in schools and colleges, direct care to people living with HIV and AIDS (including access to treatment not available in Venezuelan market).
Dr. Zeena T N., Chairperson
B-4/3054 Vasant Kunj
New Delhi 110070
India
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to provide quality service within available resources, which enables people to maximize their potential and to increase their abilities, and to preserve and enhance human dignity and worth and prevent or reduce the need for service. It has been working in the areas of health, development and human rights amongst slum dwellers, youth, women and masses to create awareness and provide services for the prevention of drug abuse, STD/HIV/AIDS, and on reproductive health.
Ps. Juan J. Carabajal, President
Cerrito 1944
Rosario, Santa Fe 2000
Argentina
Membership: national
The organization is a group of professionals from different academic disciplines to work on the problems posed by HIV/AIDS. Its activity focus on limiting the spread of HIV infection and on addressing the major factors related to its prevention through research and capacity building.
Vincenzo Barbieri, President
Via De Lemene, 50
Milan 20151
Italy
Membership: international
The organization is a development and relief organization that has been working since 1965 to assist the most vulnerable individuals in developing countries. Its objective is to contribute to the harmonious, integrated development of the communities with which it will cooperate in the developing countries, believing that by means of contact and collaboration between peoples, the ideals of equality and justice are pursued, to reach improved world equilibrium.
Mrs. H. R. Namarika, Health Manager
World Vision International - Malawi
Off Chilambula Road
Lilongwe, Central Region Office
Box 692
Malawi
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to facilitate and empower communities to transform the lives of their members within a sustainable environment, to promote justice and to proclaim the Kingdom of God. On AIDS, it follows WVI's HOPE initiative as a framework. The organization helps those dying of AIDS and orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS. It also implements education programs to prevent new HIV infections, particularly women, young people and orphans.
Elina Dulakiverata, General Secretary
26 McGregor Road
Suva, PO Box 1364
Fiji
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to promote the development of the nursing profession to its highest standards for the benefit of society and to improve the social and economic conditions of nurses. It is also involved in the training of nurses on HIV and nursing care of HIV patients in the hospital and community settings.
Alicia Ferreira, President
Av. Coronel Díaz 1649 P.B. "B"
Buenos Aires 1425
Argentina
Membership: national
This is a feminist organization whose purpose is investigation, training and education, counseling and diffusion on issues related to the promotion of more equitable gender and social relations (health, employment, sustainable development, education, environment and living standards, violence). It implements a technical assistance program for civil society projects on HIV/AIDS to build capacities of community organizations to respond to HIV/AIDS.
Tatiana Sorocovici, Director
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to help young people to avoid drug use. It educates young people on safer sexual behaviors and how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. Their services include a telephone hotline information and counseling and harm reduction activities.
Mr Gautom K Ghosh
20/1B Lalbazar Street
Calcutta, West Bengal 700001
India
Membership: national
The organization aims at reaching the unreached and specifies its operations in the rural areas and the slums; addressing to the needs and priorities of the poor, the deprived and the marginalised section of the community. It renders services in the fields of child development, welfare of persons with disabilities, women development, youth welfare, education, health care, substance abuse prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, environment protection, rural and community development.
Dr Joyce Hunter, Board Member
740 Oakland Avenue #314
Oakland, California 94611
USA
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to support the involvement of other US group in working on global AIDS work. It is devoted entirely to global AIDS issues. It assists groups throughout the UN by facilitating meetings, email updates on significant global AIDS issues and policies, and presentations at national conferences.
Michelle Arnaudies, Vice President
2, rue de Savies
75 020 Paris
France
Membership: international
The main purpose of the organization is to provide assistance to infants orphaned by parents who have died of AIDS. Its work involves developing sponsorship (financial and child-care) for the children, grandmothers and minors who assume the role of head of the household.
Barbara Martinez, President
Avenida Francisco de Miranda
Edificio Centro Seguros La Paz
Piso # 4 – Oficina E-41-D
La California Norte, Caracas
Miranda 1071
Venezuela
Membership: national
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide schools, companies and community centers updated information on AIDS education and prevention based on the organization’s experiences caring for and working with young professionals who lost their battle with AIDS and through the enormous research they undertake on a daily basis.
Ms Roma Debabrata, President
A-25, Chittaranjan Park
New Delhi 110019
India
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to work for total elimination of sexual exploitation of children and women. It tries to bridge the gap between policy makers and grassroots level work to address the situation more effectively. It makes the vulnerable groups aware of the increasing threat of sexual exploitation and to educate them regarding safeguard methods through training in family life education, as an example.
Desiree Edghill, Chair
C/o National AIDS Programme Secretariat
Hadfield Street and College Road
Georgetown
Guyana
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to coordinate the prevention and care and support efforts of different sectors in the response to HIV/AIDS situation in the country.
Vaclay Strouhal, Director
Malého 3
186 21 Praha 8
Czech Republic
Membership: national
The organization particularly concentrates on the improvement of living conditions of people living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS through regional and national activities. It works in the field of prevention, counseling, direct care, access to treatment and overall support of those persons. It also provides research in the area of advocacy and dissemination of information on HIV/AIDS and closely collaborates with the National AIDS Programme.
Rick Moser, Divisional Vice President, Public Affairs
100 Abbott Park Road
Abbott Park, Illinois 60064-6048
USA
Membership: international
This is a highly diversifies health care company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets products and services that span the continuum of care – from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cure. Its principal businesses are global pharmaceuticals, nutritionals, and medical products, including diagnostics and cardiovascular services.
Eileen Sbusiso Ndloyu, President
5350/1/2 Church Road
Gabarone, Southern Africa
Botswana
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to build a fellowship of women, girls and interested members of communities devoted to the task of practicing principles of Christian living in all aspects of individual and community life and to accept the basis and aim of the World YWCA. It also aims to serve the community without distinction of race, nationality, class, political affiliations and religion.
Godwin Mzenge, Executive Director
Mbagathi/Langata road junction
Nairobi 025
Kenya
Membership: national
The organization is a nation wide volunteer based, non-profit making, non-political and non-governmental organizations committed to promote sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, education and services in collaboration with other national and international organizations. It works closely with the Kenya Government to supplement and compliment its efforts in promoting sexual and reproductive health. It is affiliated to International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Dr Rose Irene Verdier, In Charge of Ethical Affairs
Institut National de Laboratoire et de Reserches (INLR)
33, Boulevard Harry Truman
Cité de l’Exposition
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to contribute to the welfare of the Haitian population. It is the reference center for major health problems existing in Haiti and works in support of the Ministry of Health and Population. Its programs and activities include patient care for infectious diseases (particularly HIV/AIDS, STDs and tuberculosis), counseling on infections as well as on general health education and reproductive issues, health care training, operational research on STDs/AIDS/Tuberculosis/Diarrheal Diseases; and surveys to obtain data on the spread of HIV infection. It is also the main provider of free HIV testing in Haiti.
Ana María Rosasco, Director
Jr. Paraguay 478
Lima 1
Peru
Membership: national
The main purpose of the organization is to promote and strengthen action on HIV/AIDS/STD prevention to reduce its psychosocial impact. It carries out advocacy, information, and education and communication activities that involve community participation through research, technical assistance, awareness raising, coordination and promotion of human rights.
Joe Pressley, Executive Director
231 West 29 Street #1001
New York, NY 10001
USA
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to bring together diverse constituencies sharing the conviction that community based services are key in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It provides training on HIV/AIDS related policy issues and facilitates information sharing, collaborative solutions and coalition advocacy.
Teresita Rodriguez, Executive Director
74-09 37th Avenue, Suite 400
Jackson Heights, New York 11372
USA
Membership: national
The mission of the organization is to combat AIDS-related discrimination and to support, empower and enhance the quality of life of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the New York City area, particularly community members living with AIDS and HIV infection. It carries out its mission through client services, education, training, technical assistance, community organizing, coalition building, policy analysis and research.
Miguel Goyanes, Program Director
San Felipe #7
Puerto Plata
Dominican Republic
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to develop programs and projects on education and research for prevention and epidemiological surveillance of HIV/AIDS/STDs and provision of health and emotional support to people living with HIV and AIDS. It has carried out several HIV in the workplace prevention programs, particularly with the tourism and hotel industry.
Andres Ilves, Executive Director
310 Townsend Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA
Membership: international
The purpose of the organization is to bring about and end to the HIV/AIDS pandemic through displaying sections of the International AIDS Memorial Quilt. The AIDS Quilt is an internationally recognized symbol of the losses and devastation caused by HIV. Through this display, affiliates engage in HIV/AIDS awareness and education programs, using locally created AIDS Memorial Quilts.
Adjobi Christine, President
De l’amité
BP 585 Cidex 3
Cote D’Ivoire
Membership: national
The objective of the organization is to participate in the development and promotion of health for urban and per-urban communities. Its activities include raising awareness of all sectors, particularly the less privileged urban population on factors, and causes and consequences of health related problems.
Denys Tereshchenko, President
Ul. 40 let Oktyabrya 10/30
Kremenchug, Poltavskaya 39600
Ukraine
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to undertake HIV/AIDS prevention through harm reduction programs, publication of newsletter and leaflets, counseling, education, medical care, including lectures in prisons.
Magdy Garas, Sub-director
1 Mahmoud Sedkis Street (Khouloussy)
Shubra, Cairo 11231
Egypt
Membership: national
The organization is a member of CARITAS Internationalis, an international confederation of Catholic organisations, and mandated by their respective episcopal conferences. It seeks to contribute to the socio-pastoral mission of the Church through the spreading of solidarity and social justice. This is done without regard to creed, race, gender or ethnicity.
Dr Chawalit Natpratan, Chairperson
106/11 Soi 9 Nimmanhaemin Road, Suthep
Muang, Chiangmai 50200
Thailand
Membership: regional
The mission of the organization is to reduce the harms associated with injecting drug use in Asia, especially HIV infection, through a process of networking, information sharing, research, advocacy and policy development. It provides training and support for individuals and organizations in Asia on technical and policy areas and works with government and non-government organizations at country, regional and international levels.
Ms Judi Nwokedi, Director/Advocacy Initiatives
174 Oxford Road
Melrose, Johannesburg 2169
South Africa
Membership: national
This is the major national HIV prevention initiative for young people implemented through a consortium of four non-governmental organizations. Its aims is to provide a comprehensive campaign that harnesses popular culture to promote responsible sexual behavior and healthy living, while at the same time developing frontline reproductive health services that are more responsive to sexual health concerns and needs of adolescents. Its programs are developed and implemented as part of an integrated and comprehensive national strategy.
Dr Sankar Ram, President
P.O. Box 6116
Trivandrum-695 041
Kerala
India
Membership: national
The purpose of the organization is to find ways and means to use professional expertise in addressing specific issues of contemporary significance in the health and development sector. It works closely with other NGOs and uses the network to facilitate issue-based work.
Chris J. Kilubi, Chairman
P.O: Box 41931
Nairobi
Kenya
Membership: national
This is a private limited company based in Kenya, which has a range of commercial interests. The company has also been very active, through its Chairman, in responding to the HIV epidemic in Kenya, in collaboration with the government, the private sector and national NGOs.
Predrag Stojicic, President of Executive Board
35, 27 Marta Street
Belgrade, Serbia 11 000
Yugoslavia
Membership: national
The aim of the organization is to raise AIDS awareness among the population of young people, also influencing the reduction of HIV/AIDS transmission in the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The work is chiefly implemented through programs of peer education, pre- and post-test counselling, school based programs and psycho social support to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Patty Stonesifer, Co-Chair
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
USA
Membership: international
The major focus of the foundation is helping to improve people’s lives through health and learning. It looks for strategic opportunities to extend the benefits of modern science and technology to people around the world, especially where poverty serves as an obstacle to participating in these benefits. As in the past, it invests in partnerships with individuals and organizations that bring experience, expertise and commitment to their own efforts to help people through better health and learning.
Membership: international
The organization was created to expedite and expand the already substantial amount of AIDS research conducted at Harvard University and its affiliated hospitals. It is dedicated to conducting research to end the worldwide AIDS epidemic. It seeks to develop international solutions to the epidemic, serving as a public health policy think-tank specializing in international aspects of the HIV pandemic, including access to treatment.