Couteau P, Aganga M; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. ThPeG8305.
NAP+, IFRC, Nairobi, Kenya
The partnership initiated in 2000 between the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) was seen as an opportunity to strengthen the contribution of PLWHA's in the fight against the pandemic. How to use Red Cross and Red Crescent (RC/RC) organizations to ensure that million of people who are already HIV+ or have AIDS and who are out of reach for the Network of African People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+) can receive appropriate care, have access to affordable drugs and can live full and useful lives in their communities, this is the challenge that NAP+ Secretariat and the Federation Regional Delegation in Nairobi have decided to tackle in Eastern Africa. This partnership works to build on each organization's strengths: for NAP+ their capacity to break the silence, advocate, lobby, and empower PLWHA's and for IFRC their capacity to alleviate human suffering and reach out the most vulnerable through a network of RC/RC organizations and volunteers going down to the district, the village, the community. Few months after the signing of the partnership agreement between IFRC and GNP+, the results are already tangible in Eastern Africa. - Joint training initiatives to build and decentralize capacities of both organizations in advocacy,networking. - A two year joint campaign to reduce HIV/AIDS related stigma. - Joint Ambassador's of Hope Mission in difficult to reach countries like Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia to sensitize and lobby governments. - Decentralisation of the Positive Living programme to empower emerging CBO's of PLWHA's at grassroots levels. - A greater involvement of PLWHA's in all RC/RC interventions. Through partnership and networking, both organizations have demonstrated that it is feasible to reach out and empower the unreached, to make the RC a better home for PLWHA's and NAP+ a stronger network.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Africa, Eastern
- Behavior
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- Kenya
- Organizations
- Red Cross
- Societies
- Somalia
- education
Other ID:
UI: 102253378
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