We are excited to announce the launch of the Last Mile Grant, supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Love Alliance. This grant aims to promote people living with HIV (PLHIV) networks to lead and advocate for improved treatment access.
The grant encompasses two distinct yet interconnected streams: the Children of Structurally Silenced Women stream grants will support women-led advocacy for women and children mothered or cared by women living with HIV. This stream will also gather vital evidence to uncover the barriers preventing women living with HIV who are sex workers and mothers under 24 years access to reliable information and services for preventing vertical transmission during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Such evidence will be collected through community-led participatory action research conducted in 5 countries and gathered in a global report. Both evidence-gathering and advocacy work will be developed in collaboration with Kenya Sex Workers Association (KESWA), Mothers for the Future, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Rosa in two Northern African countries, and Association of Women Living with HIV/AIDS.
The Treatment Access for Advanced AIDS Disease stream will collaborate with national networks of People Living with HIV organizations, NEPHAK – Kenya, ZNNP+ – Zimbabwe, NEPWHAN – Nigeria, and HEPS – Uganda to galvanize community treatment awareness, literacy, and advocacy to motivate treatment uptake, adherence and retention, early diagnosis and treatment of advanced HIV Disease/AIDS and empower communities to benefit from the HIV science of Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U).
We are excited to grow our community participatory grantmaking initiative that embodies our core values. GNP+ champions the rights and leadership of all people living with HIV grounded in the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) principles, we prioritise community needs and ensure transparency in our decisions. Our approach is inclusive, recognising the unique challenges faced by different subgroups.
