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Apply for UNAIDS’s Start Free Challenge: Reducing New HIV Infections in Children!

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Deadline: 15 February 2018

The Positive Action Challenges in collaboration with United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is seeking applications for The Start Free Challenge. This challenge is seeking replicable innovations at a local level which can speed up the progress being made to reach the super-fast-track target to reduce new HIV infections in children to less than 40,000 by 2018 and 20,000 by 2020.

New infections in children can be reduced if they and their mothers have timely access to antiretroviral drugs, infant prophylaxis and early infant diagnosis.

Challenge Attributes

As well as the usual Challenge criteria, the innovation must demonstrate that it has the following attributes:

Prize Information

The Prize amount is $100,000 to be divided between up to 4 winners.

Eligibility Criteria

Judging Criteria

In addition to the below criteria, solutions must demonstrate how the challenge statement is met in the context of resource-limited settings without contradicting national breastfeeding guidelines for women living with HIV in the resource-limited settings targeted.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Start Free Challenge.

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