Alliance2015 and HIV/AIDS prevention among the Youth: a comprehensive approach? Kwasi Boahene Chair, A2015 AIDS Policy Group HIV/AIDS Programme Manager, Hivos

Resources -Total budget of Alliance 2015 :400m Euro -Budget for HIV/AIDS :10% (incl. resources for mainstreaming) -Countries with AIDS projects : 48 -No. of projects: 153 Vision of Alliance 2015 Work towards achieving a virus-free generation by 2015

Triangle approach Leadership - Hold Governments accountable for their actions. - Work towards the UN target of 0.7 percent in ODA with a MDG focus - Enhance community based responses. Rights - Fight stigma and discrimination. - Support vulnerable groups in their fight for human rights. - Support rapid expansion of access to ARV. Coherence - Promote better performance of donors and untying of aid. - Coherence in rich countries aid, debt and trade policies. - Promote people-based development planning

Comprehensive Nature Areas of Activity HIV & AIDS Programming Lobby, advocacy & campaigns Poverty alleviation Capacity building Levels of Level Community, regional, national, global Types of partners Cbos, ngos, cso, gov’t, private sector, ‘traditional’ institutions; generalist, aids-focused

Primary Stakeholders - People with HIV/AIDS, dependants, family, relations - Women (esp. poor & pregnant women) - Children, youth, young adults - GLBT: gays, lesbians, bisexual, transgender - Migrants, mobile population, IDP & refugees - Sex workers - Poor urban and rural population

Focus of primary stakeholders Hivos : GLBT, sex workers Ibis : children Concern: poor urban & rural women, men, children Cesvi : pregnant women and babies PIN : youth GAA : youth/young adults

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITIES ON YOUTH Lobby, advocacy, campaign -Act Now or Pay Later Campaign Watch Report (2004, 2006) -Child labour campaign -Positive Lives Exhibition

HIVOS -In India: education & care to young sex workers, youth & MSM -Namibia: education and empowerment for youth and teachers -Kenya and Serbia: Education through ICT and SMS for youth -South Africa: Access to medicines and rights of PWHA

CESVI -PMCT: At the St Albert District Hospital in Zimbabwe -Launched in 2004; AIDS test - pregnant women rose 200% (3 months) -Now: nearly 60 percent know HIV status at Hospital (20% nation-wide) -Uganda: Treatment to refugees and IDP

Concern -India: education for street children -Malawi and Haiti: research to develop ready- to-use nutritious foods for PWHA *local enterprises to provide food -Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in a humanitarian response -Uganda and Ethiopia: Home-based care; and palliative care with traditional healers

German Agro Action Angola: -Develop farming systems conducive to people weakened by AIDS Burkina Faso: -AIDS awareness -Support for AIDS orphans and families of PWHA

Ibis, PIN, Hivos Northern Namibia -Home-based care and support for OVC -900 volunteers trained as peer educators Ibis Ghana -Community mobilisation -Education for the youth

Zambezia Province (Mozambique) - A joint project of all A2015 members -Local government and NGO partners -Aim: Improving the quality of prevention and care interventions -Focus: Promotion of positive living, behaviour change, advocacy on the rights of people with HIV

Prospects -Enthusiasm -Voluntarism -Tolerance -Innovativeness -New media -Youth advocates, peer educators Challenges -Identifying and maintaining stronger youth orgs -Developing project-related skills -Cultural and social barriers against youth