Deadline: 2-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Viiv Healthcare Positive Action Fund to focus on providing combination HIV prevention approaches for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) (15-24) in their diversity.
They invite applications that focus on HIV prevention needs of young women who sell sex, those who inject or use drugs, and LBTQ adolescent girls and young women.
Goals
- Biomedical interventions including clinical and biomedical prevention: including condom availability, ARV based prevention options, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), harm reduction programmes including Needle Syringe Programmes STI treatment and SRHR services etc.
- Behavioural interventions – interventions that respond to the context of adolescent girls and young women in their diversity including counselling for risk reduction, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), peer led education programmes, social marketing and digital campaigns etc.
- Structural interventions– promoting an enabling environment for the uptake of quality HIV prevention services, addressing structural barriers, addressing gender inequality and violence, addressing laws that reduce access to services for adolescents’ girls and young women in their diversity.
Focus
- Positive Action welcomes proposals designed to provide combination HIV prevention approaches for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in their diversity aged 15 – 24 years old in Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
Funding Information
- The funding available is up to £100,000 per year over three years, up to a maximum of £300,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-governmental and community-based organizations can deliver change at a community level through their links with or representation of the communities affected especially adolescent girls and young women in all their diversity.
- They encourage women to lead youth-led groups to apply.
For more information, visit https://viivhealthcare.com/hiv-community-engagement/positive-action/strategy-funding/community-strategic-initiatives/