Deadline: 13-Oct-2024
The ViiV Healthcare is pleased to announce the Positive Action Humanitarian Fund Program to support people living with, affected by or at risk of acquiring HIV displaced by protracted crises, with a particular focus on women and girls.
Work Areas
- Your application must address work area 1 as detailed below. Work area 2 and 3 are optional and can be selected in addition to work area 1. They recommend you address a maximum of two work areas only.
- Driving uptake of HIV prevention, care, and treatment services, and where possible, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services
- Under this work area they are seeking interventions focused on supporting continued access to critical HIV services for displaced communities through community-based models aimed at increasing access to HIV services (HIV testing, prevention and treatment services which includes self-HIV testing, PrEP, PEP and ART), and where possible, SRH services (family planning, STI diagnosis & management, Female genital cutting/mutilation (FGC/M) awareness and care and ensuring access to safe abortion care). This work area seeks to address barriers to access HIV and SRH services for displaced women and girls, including stigma and discrimination.
- Provision of mental health support
- Displaced individuals and people living in humanitarian crises often experience challenges such as stress stemming from living away from their home, uncertainty of the future, lack of sustenance to support family, sexual violence, grief from the loss of loved ones and in the case of young people, taking up adult roles within families. Interventions should focus on mental health support for PLHIV, as well as supporting PLHIV address HIV-related internalised stigma. This work area seeks to address barriers to access to mental health support for displaced women and girls living with HIV.
- Provision of humanitarian and livelihoods support
- They are also looking to fund interventions that respond to the basic needs of PLHIV that have been displaced by protracted crises. This can include the provision of food parcels, dignity kits, shelter kits etc. In addition, they will support interventions for PLHIV focused on helping them generate income and rebuild their lives. Projects can include distribution of agricultural supplies and farm inputs, livestock/fishing supplies, small scale equipment to produce goods/services, village saving/loan schemes and skills/technical training etc.
- Driving uptake of HIV prevention, care, and treatment services, and where possible, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £50,000 will be awarded for implementation over a one-year period.
Geographic Focus
- Focus countries – Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, as well as Countries hosting displaced people from focus countries – Bangladesh, Chad, Egypt, Kenya, and Uganda
Who can apply?
- The ViiV Positive Action Humanitarian Fund is targeted at supporting displaced/migrant communities affected by protracted crises and also affected by HIV.
- Any not-for-profit non-governmental national or community-based organisation that represents, or is working with or for, displaced communities is eligible to submit a proposal.
- INGOs are eligible to apply for this funding but 85% of funds must be sub-granted to a NNGO.
For more information, visit ViiV Healthcare.