Though AIDS and HIV continue to be a problem for the African continent, recent grant announcements from the Bristol-Meyer Squibb Company hope to reduce its spread.
The company, along with the Bristol-Meyer Squibb Foundation, is giving $1.3 million in grants through its Secure the Future philanthropy program. The grants will go to support 14 community-based organizations in Africa that are providing support for those infected with HIV and AIDS.
A number of countries will receive help for the first time from the philanthropy program, including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Morocco, Niger and Togo. Countries that will be seeing additional help from the program include Mali, South Africa, and Zambia.
One example of a program that will be aided by the grants is an effort to establish more comprehensive HIV/AIDS care for children in three hospitals located in Morocco. The hospitals, which are located in Casablanca, Agadir and Marrakech, will train social workers and provide education, support and nutritional services to the families of children affected with HIV.
Along with the funding, the organizations will receive assistance through Secure the Future’s Technical Assistance Program. The program will deploy advisors to aid the programs provided with grant money to help with community organization, and will also provide experts specializing in the various aspects of caring for people infected with HIV and AIDS.
According to AVERT, a UK-based international HIV and AIDS charity, over 22 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS in Africa at the end of 2007. That represents a large percentage of the world’s HIV/AIDS population, as total number of people infected is estimated at 33 million.
The Secure the Future program was established 10 years ago and has provided over $150 million in funding to programs located in 20 countries in Africa.
Greetings and thanks for the good work.
Is there a way you can assist HIV & AIDS Training in the Prisons Service because upon introduction of the new Prison Act, former Local government prisons were brought on board, but there’s a great need to train both the staff and prisoners about the care and management of HIV & AIDS in a prison setting.
So, pleaase if I wrote a proposal of what is intended to do can you fund the activity.
Best regards.
Hi Sarah:
Thanks for your comment. Actually, The Daily Tell is a news source dedicated to spreading awareness about worthy causes and environmental initiatives. We don’t actually fund the causes we report on. Your best bet is to contact local non-government organizations or other community activists about funding information.
we are running a work place HIV programe at the second highest learning institution in zambia called Copperbelt University.
we would want to be assited Financially and Technically.
Awaits to hearing from you
Puta Bernard
Chairperson Copperbelt Health Support Group.
we need financial help from your organisation.How do we go about.
Hi Bernard:
Thank you for your interest in our site. The Daily Tell is a news organization dedicated to spreading awareness of worthy causes. As such, we do not offer any funding or technical assistance for the actual programs…we only report about them. Your best bet is to contact any local NGOs in your area…or if any our readers know of any good organizations, please let Bernard know. Also, you might try to contact the US Peace Corps, who are active in Zambia.
african prisoners are un wanted people ,govtmernts see then as budget constraints.cahrities must set in to fill the any funding gap. aprison sentence can be a death sentence .prsions are overcrowed understaffed by poorly paid warders.very iow caorie meals supplied once aday, poor medical faclities.african prison charities are viewed with suspesion.
After serving thousands of homeless and low income families, children adn elderly in the state of Delaware, Global mission has decided to extend empowerment services to those living with the Hiv/aids. Do you at this time accept grant application if so yes when and what is the ceiling?
The Daily Tell does not fund any of the nonprofits we report on. Please contact the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation directly at http://www.bms.com/foundation/Pages/home.aspx.
Thanks!
Comahdo is commnity structured organization operates in Somalia .For your donating fund to several countries in Africa, would Comahdo elegible being hiv&aids involvement in Somalia.
Thanks.
Dr. Hussein Mumin : Executive dircetor of COMAHDO.
This is a community based organization in the south west region of Cameroon helping people who have been infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in Cameroon we wish to solicit for your aid in any form to enable us put up a better home for children who have lost their parents due to HIV/AIDS.
Hope for Children and Development is a community based organization based in Kayole Location, Embakasi District. It was registered as a community based organization with a ministry of Gender, children and social services in the year 2010.
we seek to know of how we can enhance partnership and also be supported?
Promah women group is agroup that was registered as c.b.o in 2000.Mostly it handles health matters.Its based in the remote area of Siaya Nyanza province Kenya.It has an hiv/aids programee that is composed of widows,orphans and children.Due to poverty that we endure it has not enabled us to fullfill our mission and objective.So how can we benefit from your organization and promote a cordial partnership.
Hoping to hear apositive responce from the organization.