Deadline: 30-Jun-21
The Gilead Sciences, Inc. is offering Gilead Asia Pacific Rainbow Grant Program to support projects that place patients and their communities at the heart of care.
Focus Areas
- Focus 1: Education and Literacy: They cannot tackle the HIV pandemic without renewed efforts to educate people on how to prevent infection and to eliminate the culture of silence surrounding the disease. They must prioritize long-term changes that protect them from future crisis. This means encouraging voluntary testing and creating a culture of openness and acceptance. Organizations and eligible proposals may include:
- Education campaigns calling for greater urgency for the prevention of HIV and rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy and knowledge of U=U (Undetectable Equals Untransmittable)
- Resources to help persons behaviorally vulnerable to HIV access voluntary testing and counselling
- Focus 2: Reducing Health Disparities: Improving livelihood opportunities and tackling the stigma around employing these people are critical to prevention efforts and better health outcomes. Organizations and eligible programs may include those with initiatives or campaigns that raise awareness about HIV stigma and economic inclusion of transgender, PLWH, sex workers and people who inject drugs etc., for example:
- Professional and corporate training sessions that raise awareness of HIV/STI related issues
- Economic empowerment sessions and workshops for vulnerable communities
- Life skills training programs or capacity-building programs for vulnerable populations
- Focus 3: Research for Impact: Up-to-date and accurate data are critical to empowering practitioners, policymakers and donors with the knowledge to design and fund interventions that will materially improve outcomes for PLWH. Eligible organizations may include those using robust existing data, or generating new data, in order to drive evidence-based advocacy in favor of the development of HIV programs, for example:
- Programs that target the use and understanding of patient-reported outcomes to support the well-being and quality of care of PLWH and persons-at-risk
- Data analyses
- Research papers to help organizations measure impact of their programmatic work
Eligibility Criteria
- Gilead Asia Pacific Rainbow Grant is only applicable to organizations with a certification of non-profit tax status. To be eligible, the applicant organization:
- Must be established for at least two years upon the time of the grant application
- Have a strong track record of sound financial stewardship and ability to deliver impactful programming
- Have strong commitment to good corporate governance, compliance, and ethics
- Demonstrate understanding of HIV/AIDS and affected communities
- Have a strong network, partnership capacity and ability to collaborate effectively
- Grantees must be in at least one of the following territories: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
For more information, visit https://www.gilead.com/purpose/giving/asia-rainbow-grant