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Strengthening communities to tackle HIV and AIDS
Positive Action programmes are coordinated by established non governmental organisations (NGO), but they are delivered in conjunction with small, community-based or grassroots organisations – groups whose members and service users are the very people Positive Action was created to help.
More voices from more vulnerable and marginalised groups, which have been muted for so long, are finally being heard 
Donald De Gagné, International AIDS Advocate
These projects, which typically run from three to five years, are designed to have real and lasting impact on individuals and their communities. This is best achieved by working with – and strengthening – small organisations so that the local benefits will remain, long after the project has come to an end.
These projects reflect many of the needs and challenges of communities around the world and demonstrate the different ways communities are successfully fighting AIDS. More than that, they help to show that responding to HIV and AIDS without the involvement of the community is no response at all.
Our key projects are profiled here:
Calling for treatment AND prevention in ten countries
The need to balance HIV treatment and HIV prevention efforts is at the heart of a new project of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO).
With five million preventable new infections every year, the council and its member organisations recognise that while expanding access to treatment must be a priority, so too are effective prevention programmes. If the rate of new infections is not reduced then the current success shown in scaling up access to treatment will not be sustainable.
This five year project – supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Positive Action and the Canadian International Development Agency – aims to identify current gaps in prevention and treatment programming in ten countries with high HIV prevalence. It will develop the advocacy skills of AIDS organisations in ten countries to secure more effective prevention and treatment programmes.
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