Our approach

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AIDS is not over. Even though there the necessary medication exists, each day 269 children die of AIDS and 4800 young women get infected with HIV. Only 75% of people living with HIV are on treatment. People don’t have access to HIV and health services. They face exclusion due to stigma, discrimination, criminalisation, gender inequality, and lack of political will. People cannot claim their sexual and reproductive rights hence cannot live freely and fearlessly.
This is unacceptable. and unnecessary. So, what can we do?

Community leadership
What we do
How we do this. Our models.

Community leadership

Communities know best what they need, what works, and which approaches are most effective. Community-led and community-based programming enables people to take control in their own communities. Through co-creation and co-decision making, we jointly design, implement and evaluate our work. We collaborate with and fund communities left behind in the HIV response: such as sex workers, LGBTQI+ people, people who use drugs, children, young women, girls and their male partners, young people, people living in poverty, people in prisons and migrants.

The communities we work with

What we do

As an involved funder, and one of the largest HIV-specific funders in the world, we work together with communities, funders, researchers, and decision-makers. We invest in community-led, participatory approaches, and advocate for effective HIV responses. Through co-decision making with the communities, we enable communities to decide on funding and programming, and we form strategic partnerships to maximise impact. We do this by providing longer-term, flexible and core funding.

We fund

We have worked with and learnt from a multitude of funders and partners about participatory grantmaking, which made us aware to look critically at our role as a funder. This resulted in communities co-deciding on all our funding decisions forming a cornerstone of our strategy. This way, we can shift power to those who know best what works and what approach suits them.

We decide together

Communities know best what they need, what works and which approaches are most effective. Community-led and community-based programming enables people to take control in their own communities. Through co-creation and co-decision making, we jointly design, implement and evaluate our work.

We collaborate

Collaboration is the cornerstone of everything we do. It ensures strong programmes, provides opportunities for new funding and business models and key donors become champions of community intervention models. We are an active member of several global networks and working groups. We work together with top researchers, communities and donors to find a cure for HIV.

We advocate

To achieve sustainable positive change, policies and funding decisions should reflect the needs of communities. We link up country, regional and global advocacy that is fully informed by communities’ priorities and country-level needs and priorities.

How we do this. Our models.

Kids to care model

Community-based HIV programming to find, test, start and retain children in care

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Stepped Care Model for Sexual Health

A youth-centered approach responsive to the needs of young people, at the lowest possible cost

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Youth programming

Youth partners in the lead to influence policies, implement quality interventions for improved quality of life

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Hands Off Model

Reducing violence against sex workers

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Participatory grantmaking

Centering the community being served where community members help design and drive projects

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HIV cure

A four-step approach towards a cure for HIV

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Partner with us!

Aidsfonds is interested in working together to further strengthen community leadership, increase HIV prevention choices, and improve treatment outcomes and quality of life of people living with or exposed to HIV. We want to talk to anyone who shares our dream and wants to join us on a journey toward a world free of AIDS.

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