Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) led GTF programme

GTF Number 361

Keeping the promise of HIV/AIDS Universal Access

Key Facts

• Start date: 8 September 2008
• End date: 30 March 2013
• Amount of DFID funding £4,099,669

A five year programme seeking to support processes at the sub-regional and national level to achieve Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, encompassing concentrated work in fifteen countries, twelve of which will be in Africa and three in other parts of the world by:

• Supporting networks of people living with HIV to strengthen their ability to deliver evidence-based advocacy, policy and programming and strengthen their participation in national processes and mechanisms;
• Creating an enabling environment and specific platforms which can support strengthened coordination and participation of civil society in the development of advocacy and of effective responses.

The first three participating countries are Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia. Four new countries will be added in each of the years 2009, 2010, and 2011, An intensive programme will progress in each of those countries for two years.