Your donation will help us to train local people to deliver HIV prevention, care and support services within their communities, making available a much-needed resource. When trained, they will work to raise awareness and increase understanding of treatment within communities, which helps to reduce stigma and discrimination around HIV and ARV treatment. They will provide necessary support in starting and remaining on treatment, lifetime adherence...

Your donation will help deliver self-help and psychosocial support services for people living with HIV. Being able to come together with others similarly affected, to receive counseling and share experiences, can be an invaluable source of support. When all hope seems to be lost, people with HIV benefit enormously from some encouragement and understanding, and they recover their will to live. They can receive good...

Your donation will help us to pay for some of the time of an outreach worker spends going into the community. Outreach workers are often people who are themselves HIV positive, and so they are ideally placed to help others in the same situation. They may deal with a whole range of issues around HIV/AIDS. For example, they can advise on how to obtain affordable...

Your donation will help us to train leaders in issues around HIV/AIDS – for example, in prevention, care and support, stigma and discrimination – and to equip them with the necessary skills to make the best use of their learning. The leaders may be influential individuals within a community, such as religious leaders, or they may be a key representative of a marginalized group such...

This gift provides lifesaving AIDS drugs, for one child for five days. These drugs bring children back to life, giving them the chance to grow up healthy and happy.

This gift will provide food for one patient for ten days at Alive Medical Services in Kampala, Uganda. AIDS treatment works only if combined with a healthy lifestyle in which proper nutrition is a crucial component. Your donation gives one patient this needed nutrition.

This gift will provide nutrition for one child for one month at Ikageng Itireleng in South Africa. Many of these children, who live in child-headed households, have no parents on whom to depend for food. They have experienced going without meals, but with you donation you can help ensure that they will never again.

This gift will provide lifesaving AIDS drugs for one child for one month. These drugs bring children back to life, from terrible sickness to full health. With your help, these children can devote their time and energy to their education and personal pursuits, allowing them a real childhood and a chance to succeed later in life.

This gift will provide nutrition for one patient for two months at Alive Medical Services. Nutrition in a crucial component of effective AIDS treatment. Your generous gift ensures that for two months, one patient is able to be treated properly and reach full health.

This gift will provide lifesaving AIDS drugs for one child for one year. These drugs bring children back to life, from terrible sickness to full health. With your help, these children can devote their time and energy to their education and personal pursuits, allowing them a real childhood and a chance to succeed later in life.

Mercy Corps is helping to contain this deadly disease by promoting HIV/AIDS awareness in many countries. Through radio campaigns, distribution of informational materials, presentations in classrooms and other innovative methods, we are helping individuals learn how to prevent the disease, recognize its symptoms and care for patients.

Your gift will ensure that six individual 2006 TAG HIV news publications, "What's In The Pipeline 2006," "Tuberculosis R&D Investments," TAGline newsletter (2 issues), and the TAG Annual Report & Fall Update are printed and shipped to an AIDS organization or clinic.