A Project of Tides Network in partnership with the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition

I would like to say that the key to successful treatment education and advocacy is remembering our own dignity as human beings and taking hold of the power of that truth. Taking care of our feelings is as important as understanding and treatment of the physical manifestations of this disease. I would like us to remember that we are our own cure, that we use our voices to educate and advocate, and that we will realize our goals.




The Collaborative Fund for HIV Treatment Preparedness is a nonprofit  community-driven funding mechanism to support HIV treatment advocacy and education efforts in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, and NIS/CIS/Baltics. In each funding region, the Collaborative Fund provides:

• Grants for community-based organizations for HIV treatment advocacy and education projects;


• Support for regional networks to share information, implement collaborative strategies, and provide technical assistance to grantees;

Meeting the Global Challenge to Treat HIV

Millions of people around the world need HIV treatment now, and millions more will need it in the future.  Increased access to HIV treatment is possible, but requires sustained commitment and resources of many different kinds.  Successful advocacy efforts, led by people living with HIV/AIDS, have resulted in new political and funding commitments by multilateral, bilateral and national government agencies, fortifying the hope that HIV treatment will be accessible in all parts of the world.  The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is now providing funding contracts with 119 countries that will support HIV treatment for 1.6 million people.  The WHO “3 by 5” Initiative seeks to scale up treatment access with the goal of treatment 3 million people by the end of 2005. This is the single greatest undertaking in the history of the global public health establishment. If successful, these HIV treatment efforts will not only provide hope to tens of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS, but will radically alter the healthcare infrastructure throughout the developing world.  The Collaborative Fund supports:

• Advocacy to ensure that funding applications best meet the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and that funding is used appropriately to provide high quality care.


• Advocacy to ensure the equitable availability of HIV treatment and end discrimination against those at-risk for HIV, especially women, drug users, gay men, sex workers and other vulnerable groups.


• Awareness to inform the public that HIV is a treatable illness to encourage HIV testing and engagement with health care systems.


• Treatment education to assist people living with HIV to make and follow through on treatment decisions.  If not taken correctly, the virus will develop drug resistance, rendering treatment ineffective. Therefore, HIV treatment must be accompanied by patient education and support to ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS have the knowledge and assistance needed to follow through on their treatment regimens.

Please refer to our 2005 Recent Evaluation Report by LTG Associates, Inc. for an independent evaluation of the HIV Collaborative Fund.

2006 Grants Summary Master List
2005 Grants Summary Master List