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West and Central Africa HIV programme (2008-2010)

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The International Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. The Federation is the world's largest humanitarian organization, and its millions of volunteers are active in over 187 countries.

This Appeal provides an overview of the current HIV situation and its impact in West and Central Africa including key challenges and priorities for 2008 and beyond.

This appeal seeks just over CHF 21 million for the West and Central Africa HIV Programme for the period 2008-2010, covering resource needs of five National Societies: Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Guinea and Nigeria and the support requirements of the International Federation Secretariat.


Programme Consolidated Budget
Budget 2008
(CHF)
Budget 2009
(CHF)
Budget 2010
(CHF)
Total Budget
(CHF)
Prevention
1,618,083
2,243,635
2,480,821
6,342,539
Care, support and treatment
1,157,408
2,102,067
2,488,023
5,747,498
Reducing stigma and discrimination
219,088
207,385
231,991
658,464
Institutional strengthening
1,173,018
1,010,285
1,049,214
3,232,517
Federation Secretariat programme support
1,619,924
1,679,547
1,776,438
5,075,909
Total
5,787,521
7,242,919
8,026,487
21,056,927

The aim of this programme, which is the West and Central Africa zonal component of the Red Cross Red Crescent Global Alliance on HIV, is to reduce vulnerability to HIV and its impact through: preventing further HIV infection; expanding HIV care, treatment, and support; reducing HIV stigma and discrimination; and strengthening National Red Cross / Red Crescent Society capacities to deliver and sustain scaled-up HIV programmes.

The programme represents a major scale-up of Red Cross efforts in the fight against HIV in the region and plans to reach over 950,000 vulnerable and disadvantaged people; 13,000 sex workers, over 49,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) and 10,000 orphans and other children vulnerable to HIV (OVC) in the five countries.


Programme target groups by country (Table)
(Please see Full_Report.pdf attached)

The programme will function within the framework of government-led National HIV and AIDS strategies, closely coordinated with other national and international partners. Key implementation strategies include working at the community level, with the active involvement of people living with HIV; influencing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour; increasing access to voluntary counselling and testing; preventing mother-to-child transmission; expanding home-based care for people living with HIV as well as orphans and vulnerable children through psychological, social and livelihood support; promoting livelihoods and food security; advocating for policies for equitable rights and access to services; identifying and reducing sexual and gender based violence; and establishing HIV in the workplace programmes in National Societies.

This will involve expanded capacity of the five Red Cross Societies and the Federation Secretariat working under the framework of common country plans underpinned by a new performance and accountability tracking system. It will as well allow for other National Societies in West and Central Africa to be supported by the Federation Secretariat to join this programme and further expand coverage and assistance to key populations, including PLHIV.

The International Federation’s activities are aligned with the Global Agenda, which sets out four broad goals to meet the Federation's mission to "improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity". The Global Agenda Goals are:

- Reduce the number of deaths, injuries and impact from disasters

- Reduce the number of deaths, illnesses and impact from diseases and public health emergencies

- Increase local community, civil society and Red Cross Red Crescent capacity to address the most urgent situations of vulnerability

- Reduce intolerance, discrimination and social exclusion and promote respect for diversity and human dignity

How we work

All International Federation assistance seeks to adhere to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations in Disaster Relief and is committed to the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response (Sphere) in delivering assistance to the most vulnerable.

Contact information

For further information concerning International Federation programmes or operations in the countries covered by this Appeal, and for National Society profiles, please visit the country pages on the International Federation website: www.ifrc.org.

For further information on the West and Central Africa HIV Programme please contact:

In Senegal: Alasan Senghore, Federation Head of West & Central Africa Zone, Dakar; Email: alasan.senghore@ifrc.org, Phone: +221 33 869 36 40, Fax: +221 33 820 25 34

For information on the International Federation Global Alliance on HIV please contact:

In Geneva: Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Secretary General on HIV; Email: mukesh.kapila@ifrc.org, Phone +41.22.730.4341, Fax 41.22.733.0395