Details of InterAction Member Assistance

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
(February 27, 03)
ADRA implements AIDS awareness and education programs in various countries in Asia and Africa, including Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea. Working with local communities and through Home Based Care, ADRA increases awareness of how HIV is spread, its prevention, and healthier lifestyle choices using positive life skills management. Targeting the entire community, including children and those orphaned because of AIDS, ADRA uses such methods as drama, music, information sharing, lectures, and voluntary counseling and testing to provide accurate information, enabling people to make healthy, informed choices.

African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF)
(June 8, 04)
AMREF's HIV/AIDS programs in East Africa include care and treatment through ART, prevention and education programs including VCT, MTCT, Workplace programs and care of AIDS orphans and micro-credit programs.

Africare
(March 13, 03)
Africare provides support to community-based organizations engaged in HIV/AIDS education, prevention, home-based care and adolescent reproductive health in over 17 African countries. Basic needs and educational support are provided to HIV/AIDS orphans in Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe. HIV/AIDS is a component of Africare's Child Survival and Food Security projects; human capacity building is also done at regional, national and local levels; and Africare's HIV/AIDS Service Corps Volunteers are local citizens providing services in their own communities.

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
(August 31, 01)
AJWS supports non-governmental and community-based organizations engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention, home-based care, care of AIDS orphans, and income generating activities for people with AIDS and their caregivers; AJWS also sends professionals to volunteer to do capacity-building with NGOs. All of AJWS' work is devoted to strengthening the capacities of local CBOs and NGOs to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis at the community level, and focuses on supporting networks of people living with AIDS. AJWS has a special initiative with partner organizations working throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and also supports organizations doing AIDS work in southeast Asia and Central America.

American Red Cross
(February 10, 03)
In 2000 the American Red Cross signed an agreement with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to implement HIV/AIDS projects in selected countries as part of their Global AIDS Program (GAP). In addition to GAP projects in Kenya, Uganda, India and Thailand, the American Red Cross is currently implementing projects in Lesotho, Malawi, Honduras and Russia. American Red Cross projects focus on various approaches for reducing the spread and impact of the pandemic including: prevention and education among youth and school children, home-based care to PLWA, support to orphans, blood safety and blood donor recruitment, promotion of voluntary counseling and testing, advocacy, promotion of attitude and behavior change through empowerment, development of volunteer networks and capacity building of local Red Cross partners.

American Refugee Committee
(July 9, 02)
American Refugee Committee country programs in Africa and Southeast Asia are working to mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS through education, training and condom distribution. In Sierra Leone, ARC is delivering services to youth and returning refugee communities, educating them about condom usage and other aspects of HIV/AIDS. In Sudan, ARC is working with international and local NGOs and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on an innovative HIV/AIDS mitigation project aimed at the populations in Yei and Rumbek Counties, Southern Sudan.

Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT)
(February 10, 03)
AMURT supports an HIV/AIDS program in the Nairobi slums in Kenya. The agency provide alternative therapies (homeopathy and naturopathy) as a low-cost solution to treating symptoms. In addition AMURT offers voluntary testing and counseling and weekly support groups and trains Kenyans as homeopathic health care workers to encourage the spread of homeopathy as a people's medicine. More detailed information can be found at: http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~rucira/alf/

CARE
(January 3, 01)
CARE has more than 40 AIDS prevention programs in 25 high-risk countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean. CARE uses educational television and radio messages, offers community education programs and informal discussion groups, and trains community promoters to educate others about ways to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission. CARE also works within communities to help people living with AIDS in partnership with local health centers, ministries of health, and the private sector. With recent funding from the Gates Foundation, CARE will strengthen its partnerships with other international organizations in a global effort to assist children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB)
(July 10, 00)
CMMB has committed $5 million dollars over 5 years to HIV/AIDS programs in southern Africa. CMMB supports HIV/AIDS home-based care, hospice care, orphan care/placement, training for church leaders, and youth outreach programs. CMMB activities throughout the region are carried out in collaboration with the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference and the Bristol-Myers Squibb "Secure the Future" program.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
(August 28, 02)
CRS promotes a community-based response to AIDS through which the ability and willingness of communities to accept and care for people living with HIV/AIDS is strengthened. The agency's overarching goal is to increase the human dignity and quality of life for individuals, families, and communities affected by HIV/AIDS. CRS' worldwide programming objectives are to increase communities' capacities to implement care and support activities and improve access to physical, nutritional, and emotional care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
(March 22, 04)
CEDPA promotes integrated reproductive health approaches that include HIV/AIDS to address the needs of adolescents and women, including the development of training curricula, working with partner organizations and researching the best ways to address HIV/AIDS in its existing programs. Drawing from extensive networks of partners and training alumni, CEDPA promotes mobilization, education and advocacy related to HIV/AIDS prevention. CEDPA is also increasingly working with faith-based organizations battling the disease. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.cedpa.org/keyissues/hivaids.html

Childreach
(August 2, 02)
To address the AIDS pandemic in Africa and around the world, Plan has been working with communities in a number of ways. To increase awareness it supports sharing of HIV/AIDS information, education, and communication using creative AIDS techniques such as radio, television, theatre and dance groups. However, Plan also recognises that prevention alone is not enough to effectively address the pandemic and has thus expanded its work to include care and support for children and families affected by AIDS, including treatment of opportunistic infections.

Christian Children’s Fund (CCF)
(November 13, 02)
CCF works with orphans and other vulnerable children along with AIDS-affected families providing: Home-based Care; psychosocial support; sustainable livelihoods through income-generating activities; HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness programs through peer education, public plays, and other educational efforts; promotion of positive living for People Living With AIDS through support groups, retreats for caregivers and children, and special nutrition programs; and a pilot program using nevirapine to prevent Mother to Child Transmission.

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
(June 24, 02)
CRWRC supports the efforts of its international partners in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia as they concentrate on a church and community response to HIV/AIDS. Programming includes: training for pastors and community leaders; church and community-based care for orphans (not institutional care); home-based care for those living with HIV/AIDS; income generation activities for people supporting people living with AIDS; peer education among adolescents about HIV/AIDS prevention; and community actions that support behavior change to reduce risk of infection. CRWRC also educates their North American constituents on AIDS issues and advocacy efforts. More detailed information is available at www.crwrc.org/teams/esamt/hiv.html

Church World Service (CWS)
(November 20, 00)
CWS is providing assistance to partners in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America for programs including: health education and prevention; primary healthcare and treatment; sanitation and water development; and training for clergy, hospital chaplains, counselors, and Christian health professionals on dealing with HIV infections. CWS is also determining the usefulness of the Moringa oleifera tree as a nutritional supplement for persons suffering from HIV/AIDS. CWS advocates for meaningful national and global AIDS-response initiatives. For more detailed information, please see: http://www.churchworldservice.org/FactsHaveFaces/aidsfactsheet.htm

Concern Worldwide US
(April 27, 01)
Concern Worldwide implements a community-based home care program in Mpigi District, Uganda. To date, 424 volunteers have been trained, 10,000 people have benefited, and health information reaches 93 villages in Mpigi. Throughout its international health program, Concern promotes prevention of HIV/AIDS in various countries. Target groups include women in Kosovo, youth groups in Tanzania, vulnerable children in Rwanda and Ethiopia, and disadvantaged urban poor populations in Bangladesh and Mozambique.

Counterpart International
(September 7, 2001)
Counterpart is currently managing a USAID-funded HIV/AIDS and reproductive health program in Ukraine, and building the capacity of local NGOs to provide HIV/AIDS services to vulnerable groups. Counterpart is also planning to expand its health programs in India and Central Asia to include
HIV/AIDS education campaigns. Counterpart is also coordinating a media-based HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention program in the Carribean region.

Direct Relief International
(July 10, 00)
Direct Relief International is providing pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for AIDS-related opportunistic infections to a variety of health care facilities and programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They are also developing a special program focusing on the use of medication and baby formula to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Doctors of the World
(July 12, 00)
Doctors of the World-USA sponsors the Community Based TB/AIDS Partnership Project in South Africa. Doctors of the World has joined in a partnership with a South African non-governmental organization, the TB Alliance DOTS Support Association, known as TADSA, to confront the dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. This partnership addresses the crucial overlap of the two epidemics and develops local capacity to incorporate efforts aimed at each disease.

FINCA International
(July 11, 00)
In Uganda, FINCA uses their village-banking group structures as a forum for AIDS education. In addition, FINCA members have been able to qualify for group insurance rates for both health and life insurance.

Food for the Hungry
(February 18, 03)
Food for the Hungry maintains AIDS programs in three different continent, providing AIDS/HIV awareness and prevention, training for medical personnel and pastors who work with patients and supporting AIDS orphans. Food for the Hungry works through local churches, leaders and families, providing training to reach out to the community. More detailed information can be found at: www.fh.org/findout/aids

Freedom from Hunger
(July 10, 00)
Freedom from Hunger’s Credit with Education program combines microcredit with weekly meetings for women to learn about the virus and to develop the self-confidence they need to mobilize their communities into action. In several African countries, such as Uganda, women clear up their misconceptions about how HIV is spread, learn how to protect themselves against it, and identify local sources for testing, counseling, and treatment. Women also learn to plan for the futures of their families if they are already infected and they develop strategies for sharing HIV/AIDS crisis information with their friends and neighbors.

Heifer Project International
(July 10, 00)
In Zimbabwe, the Heifer Project works with a prostitutes rehabilitation program. In Kenya, they are working with an orphanage for children whose parents have died of AIDS. Heifer programs also often supply families who have adopted AIDS orphans with a dairy cow.

International Aid
(February 28, 01)
Over the last 20 years International Aid has provided medicines, medical supplies and technical assistance to hospitals and clinics in 16 countries of sub-Saharan Africa where HIV/AIDS is most intense. These hospitals and clinics are currently conducting all or some of the following programs: the care of AIDS patients, screening and testing for HIV, counseling of persons living with AIDS, and public education. International Aid is also exploring how its compact and portable product, Lab-in-a-Suitcase, can be used to screen for HIV on a large scale.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
(July 13, 00)
Since the early 1990s, ICRW has spearheaded research on the economic and social roles of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that put them at special risk of HIV/AIDS infection and place on them an overwhelming burden of caring for victims. ICRW’s research findings have helped to inform and improve the effectiveness of global HIV/AIDS prevention, policies, and programs. ICRW also works to increase US support for HIV/AIDS programs worldwide and to educate U.S. policymakers and citizens on how the traditional roles of women and men contribute to the spread of the disease.

International Eye Foundation (IEF)
(July 10, 00)
IEF provides training of home care givers to give comfort and care to the dying and their families left behind in Malawi. Traditional healers, community health workers, and at-risk women and girls are trained in AIDS prevention. "Anti-AIDS Clubs" are established in the schools.

International Medical Corps (IMC)
(November 10, 00)
IMC is combating sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through training for local health care personnel, treatment for sexually transmitted infections and opportunistic infections associated with AIDS, and public education on AIDS prevention and "safer sex" practices. IMC also distributes condoms, conducts HIV sero-prevalence studies, offers chemotherapy to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission, and is piloting AIDS education programs in several countries.

International Relief and Development (IRD)
(August 27, 04)
International Relief and Development (IRD) is responding to the challenge posed by this global epidemic. Our programs take a holistic approach, integrating the fight against HIV/AIDS into the majority of its programs. Believing that education is the most effective vehicle for behavioral change, IRD is building the capacity of communities to respond to the epidemic through prevention campaigns. IRD is currently implementing HIV/AIDS programs in Azerbaijan, Serbia, Ukraine and will begin one in Cambodia in 2004. For details on in-kind donations, please call 703-248-0161.

International Relief Teams (IRT)
(August 31, 01)
IRT is conducting a unique pilot program ("Mothers to Mothers to be") at Groote Schuur Hospital in Capetown, South Africa where pregnant HIV infected women receiving antenatal care at the hospital will be paired with HIV infected women who recently completed antenatal care and delivered their babies. The new mothers will act as mentors for the pregnant women for the duration of the pregnancy, educating and counseling their peers during antenatal visits to increase knowledge, improve sense of well-being, and help them adhere to therapies that will reduce vertical transmission of HIV from mother to child.

International Rescue Committee (IRC)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
(August 9, 04)
HIV/AIDS-control is an integral part of all IRC health programs, with preventive and curative assistance for victims fleeing violent conflict all over the world. This includes medical and psycho-social care for HIV/AIDS sufferers, the distribution of antiretroviral drugs, and prevention activities through awareness-raising campaigns. The IRC is part of the Consortium on Aids and Mobility, a group of non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies and academic institutions that are rallying around the specific problems surrounding AIDS and populations who migrate. The IRC accepts in-kind gifts from institutional and corporate donors.

International Youth Foundation
(July 17, 00)
The International Youth Foundation and its global network of organizations working with children and youth are supporting HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives for children and youth in over 20 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southern and Southeast Asia.

Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
(February 6, 02)
LWR supports grassroots partners in South Asia and East and West Africa who are providing training on HIV/ AIDS education, awareness, and prevention; care-giving for adults, children, and orphans living with AIDS; and support programs for AIDS widows. LWR is in its second year of a three-year "Stand with Africa" campaign in partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (LCMS). One of the campaign's primary goals is to mobilize U.S. parish support for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa.

MAP International
(December 19, 02)
MAP International's HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs in Africa and Latin America focus on church leadership, community leaders, and youth with a biblically-based message that stresses abstinence, faithfulness to one partner, and condom usage when appropriate. MAP has produced an HIV/AIDS curriculum for introduction into seminaries and theological schools throughout sub-Saharan Africa that is currently being tested in Anglican seminaries through a grant from Episcopal Relief and Development. Additionally, MAP provides medicines that address opportunistic infections associated with AIDS. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.map.org/main.asp?menu=2&submenu=99&page=news/2002/senate.inc.

Near East Foundation
(February 7, 03)
NEF is dedicated to helping the rural and urban poor in the Middle East and Africa to build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. Working closely with local organizations to address specific needs and to create self-sustaining projects, NEF provides a diverse range of technical assistance and customized training related to agriculture, health, literacy, and income-generation.

Northwest Medical Teams (NWMT)
(February 20, 02)
NWMT's programs seek to prevent the spread of HIV in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Central Asia by supporting the training of healthcare staff and providing lab equipment and supplies to test, treat and prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This is carried out through partnerships with medical institutions such as the University of Washington Children's Hospital, UNICEF, local Ministries of Health and their relevant hospitals and health centers. In addition, NWMT works with Christian counterparts to engage local churches and schools in AIDS prevention education.

Operation USA
(July 10, 00)
Operation USA supports clinics in several countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Nicaragua. They enable those clinics to function with equipment and basic primary health care supplies. They do not provide AIDS medications.

Oxfam America
(November 17, 00)
Oxfam has HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Cambodia. Oxfam focuses on supporting grassroots groups coping with the societal changes brought on by the AIDS crisis.
(November 17, 00)
Oxfam has HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Cambodia. Oxfam focuses on supporting grassroots groups coping with the societal changes brought on by the AIDS crisis.

Pact, Inc.
(July 11, 00)
Pact's AIDS Corps works to deepen and expand local solutions to this disease by supporting local organizations and leaders in Africa and linking them to international resources and networks. AIDS Corps activities are designed to: strengthen community-led responses that reduce poverty, gender inequity and stigma; link African and American communities, policies, and resources; and promote the renewal of helpful cultural traditions and challenge harmful ones.

Partners For Development (PFD)
(July 31, 00)
PFD, through financial support from the UN Fund for Population Activities, is undertaking health education work in northeast Cambodia. The project focuses on community-based distribution of condoms and education of Cambodian women on both family planning and prevention of sexually- transmitted diseases, including HIV.

Pathfinder International
February 28, 04
Pathfinder provides home-based care training and support that provides both people living with the disease and the family members who care for them with practical training and emotional support. The organization also works to integrate family planning into all our HIV/AIDS prevention programs, particularly adolescents. Pathfinder is accepting materials for home-based care kits, such as soap, latex gloves and aspirin.

Salvation Army World Service Office
(July 10, 00)
The Salvation Army’s HIV/AIDS programs are multi-faceted and promote the concepts of both community care and prevention. Many programs work through Care and Prevention Teams. These teams provide care and support to people with HIV/AIDS and their families, and work to mobilize community resources to help people living with the disease. In addition, the Salvation Army conducts income generation projects to assist caregivers and to address issues of sustainability for family members. The Salvation Army has HIV/AIDS programs in 31countries around the world.

Save the Children (SCF)
(December 13, 00)
Save the Children supports community efforts in Asia and Africa to develop, implement and sustain programs for HIV/AIDS communities, including orphans and other vulnerable children. SCF also advocates for policy change that benefits children and familites affected by HIV/AIDS. SCF's activities include: mobilizing community action to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS; building the capacity of local NGOs in designing and delivering HIV/STI activities; working with schools to reduce the incidence of reproductive health problems among youth; empowering girls and women to participate in the decision-making process regarding their own reproductive health by providing them with negotiation skills; and assisting partner NGOs with institutional strengthening

Trickle Up Program
(July 19, 00)
Since the mid-1990s, Trickle Up has been helping families affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda and other African countries to start small businesses which enable the surviving children to sustain themselves after the death of their parents. Trickle Up capital and basic business training is provided to AIDS-affected families by a number of local partners, including church and community-based organizations.

United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
(June 21, 01)
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, UMCOR supports and implements HIV/AIDS programs that address prevention and provide education, care, leadership development, and material and pharmaceutical support. UMCOR works through community based workshops and also supports community initiatives to care for AIDS orphans. For more details, please see: http://gbgm-umc.org/health/aids /. UMCOR is seeking donations of Healthy Homes, Healthy Families Kits--an infection control and basic care kit with supplies needed to care for an ailing loved one and prevent the spread of disease. Call (212) 870-3683 for instructions and further information.

USA for UNHCR
(June 30, 04)
UNICEF provides HIV/AIDS programs worldwide. The emphasis is three-tiered. Relief focuses on the prevention of HIV/AIDS through education in youth ages 10 to 24, the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS, and the support of orphans made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS by facilitating their access to education, shelter, healthcare and other social services.

US Fund for UNICEF
(October 11, 00)
The US Fund for UNICEF is supporting UNICEF HIV/AIDS programs in Botswana and South Africa. Programs concentrate on prevention efforts among young people, especially girls, reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission, and ensuring that children orphaned by AIDS receive health, nutritional, educational, and vocational support.

World Concern
(August 17, 00)
World Concern addresses HIV/AIDS prevention through education projects in Myanmar, Haiti, Uganda, and Thailand. Families and communities diminished by this epidemic are supported in these and other Asian, central African, and Latin American countries through micro-enterprise programs. This income provides for basic needs and continues a child’s education .

World Education
(July 10, 00)
World Education provides sustained education, training, and community mobilization programs in close collaboration with local partner organizations. Using a "training of trainers" approach, their programs build the knowledge and skills of government and NGO health workers, who in turn train and support community HIV counselors and home-based care providers.

World Relief
(September 26, 03)
World Relief is working with local churches to implement HIV/AIDS programs that are gradually helping to break social taboos and myths surrounding HIV/AIDS. Through education, awareness programs and prayer, World Relief is teaching people how to stop spreading the disease by changing patterns of unhealthy sexual behavior and how to care for those already living with the disease.

World Vision
(March 27, 01)
World Vision has been introducing HIV/AIDS related activities into programs worldwide over the last decade. Current projects include behavior change interventions aimed at commercial sex workers and their clients in Zambia and Cambodia, life skills for school children and adolescents in South Africa and India, Kids Clubs for children with HIV/AIDS in Romania, support groups for people with HIV/AIDS in Thailand and Cambodia, as well as comprehensive orphan care and prevention activities in Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi. World Vision has recently launched a $30 million initiative to scale up the response, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a multi-sectoral integrated approach that includes community-based support for orphans and vulnerable children, home-based care for people living with AIDS, and prevention and behavior change interventionsaimed at children and teens.

YMCA World Service
(April 27, 01)
Through peer education, counseling, drama, radio, advocacy, and other means, the YMCA enables youth in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to make positive choices for HIV/AIDS prevention and adolescent reproductive health.

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