Your kind gift will go far towards helping children and their families survive the cruelties of AIDS and hunger through home-based care, agricultural education programs, and community-building activities, such as the one pictured here: an ActionAid-supported vegetable garden for children orphaned by AIDS in Kadoma District, Zimbabwe.

AMREF provides voluntary counseling and testing services to people who wish to know their HIV status. Those who are not infected learn how to protect themselves from the disease. Those who are found to be HIV positive are counseled to take the appropriate medication and avoid infecting their loved ones, and are helped to live positive and productive lives even though they have AIDS. Your...

This gift will provide five comprehensive HIV tests, allowing those at risk to learn their HIV status, and be referred to the Peruvian Ministry of Health for counseling and enrollment in the government's antiretroviral treatment program.

Your gift will provide counseling on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to couples in the Diocese of Kaya. This Couple-to-Couple Counseling Project trains volunteer couples to visit married and engaged couples to talk about HIV and AIDS. The volunteer couples use bicycles to reach vulnerable couples in remote areas. The project trains participants to develop safe-living plans. Information and awareness-raising sessions are also used...

Your gift will help support the 10 children living in the 1,300 foot "Covenant Cottage!" For several years, Covenant has been partnering with the Rafiki Foundation to build a Christian orphanage in Zambia. Covenant pledged to build one "Rafiki Cottage" that has now been opened and houses 10 orphans and their house mother, giving these children a hope and a future.

Your gift will help GAA maintain its Action Alert Network and ensure that U.S. leaders continue to hear the voices of Americans who want their government to take a more active role in fighting the global AIDS epidemic.

Your gift will enable the Global AIDS Alliance to host a coalition-building meeting (or teleconference) in order to bring key allies together, identify joint priorities, and develop specific advocacy and communications strategies to help maximize our impact.

Your gift will help GAA continue to produce briefing documents on a range of issues related to HIV/AIDS, such as violence against women and children, universal basic education and the elimination of school fees, and orphans and vulnerable children.

Candlelight is celebrated anually in more than 1,000 communities in 65 countries. Run by volunteers, these events are forums for advocacy, knowledge sharing, community building and remembering. Your gift will provide a coordinator in the U.S. or in another country with a kit to plan, advertise and execute a memorial in their community. Through its education and mobilization components, this gift benefits not only individuals,...

Your donation will sponsor a youth to attend an AIDS awareness club for one month. The club includes around 25 youths who put on skits and plays, create music, and do formal presentations for the community. They educate others by using their personal experience about living positively and about the importance of getting tested for HIV. Spreading awareness about AIDS helps decrease the rate of...

Your donation will cover the costs of one outing of a Mobile Voluntary Counseling and Testing Unit. Access to healthcare clinics is often very limited for those in rural areas, so mobile teams take the services to the people. One team can provide HIV counseling and testing to over 50 clients a day. Access to these services helps educate people on how to stay HIV-negative...

Your donation will provide network access to one researcher for three months. AIDS vaccine clinical studies are very data-transfer intensive and require local scientists to be kept up-to-date on research and procedures. Your support will ensure that clinical data gets entered into centralized databases quickly and that local scientists have access to the latest study results and research. AIDS vaccine research requires complicated technology. Your...

Your gift will pay for an hour of an AIDS vaccine researcher’s time. IAVI is committed to finding an AIDS vaccine for use throughout the world. IAVI’s scientific team, drawn largely from the vaccine industry, researches and develops AIDS vaccine candidates and conducts HIV clinical trials and research. IAVI prioritizes the most promising products and moves them swiftly through the vaccine development pipeline. Despite the...

Your gift will provide the necessary money to keep the power on at one of our sites for one week. This will allow the lab and clinic to function, and will provide the essential security that the research samples will not be spoiled. It is vital that these scientists have all the tools they need for their research so they can find a vaccine as...

Your gift will provide a computer for one of our nine field sites across East and Southern Africa. AIDS vaccine clinical studies are very complex and data intensive, so local scientists need access to high-tech computers. Your support will ensure that these local researchers have all the tools they need in their search for an AIDS vaccine. AIDS vaccine research requires complicated technology. Your gift...

Your donation will pay for two AIDS Vaccine Literacy Toolkits for people in the developing world where the epidemic is the most serious and where people have limited access to health education. The primary purpose of this Vaccine Literacy Toolkit project is to provide materials and tools that are culturally relevant for the individual needs of countries, communities and audiences, but that contain accurate, globally...

Voluntary counseling and testing is an important prevention tool, as well as opening up opportunities for treatment, care and support for people who test HIV positive. People who want to take a test receive information, support and referral through confidential dialogue with a trained counselor both before and after the test. Services can be tailored to meet the needs of specific groups, such as young...

Your donation will be used towards the cost of producing educational materials for people who are most at risk either of contracting HIV or of passing on the virus. The materials are designed to be culturally appropriate and to address the specific needs and concerns of the intended reader. They are distributed by the Alliance’s partners, who work closely with vulnerable population groups. Newly equipped...

Condoms save lives and they are a vital tool in our efforts to prevent HIV infection. They are also essential to the maintenance of other elements of sexual and reproductive health, such as the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and of sexually transmitted infections. With education, support and consistent supply, people can learn to integrate condom use into their sexual lives, and protect themselves and their...

Your donation will be used towards the cost of producing accurate information materials for people who have tested HIV positive. They are distributed by the Alliance’s partners, who work closely with groups of people who are living with HIV. The materials will help people to understand that they are not under a death sentence, and what they must do to live well despite their HIV...