The ViiV Healthcare, Positive Action invites application
to the round-2 funding for Momentum Grants focusing on Adolescents Mothers
Living with HIV and their Children. These grants will be focused on scaling up
work that has been proven to work to address the needs of Adolescent Mothers
Living with HIV and their Children at the community level.
Positive Action believes that engaging local communities is
critical to addressing the drivers of health and life inequalities, it
therefore seeks to promote community responses that work at the level of
changing beliefs, attitudes and behaviours to improve health and rights at the
community level.
Focus Areas
- Empowering, developing
resilience and increasing independence of adolescent mothers living with
HIV and their children.
- Creating safe and supportive
communities that support adolescents’ mothers living with HIV and their
children to access quality health services and to take care of their
children.
- Sustained provision of quality
integrated HIV/sexual and reproductive health services offered at both
facility and community levels for adolescent mothers living with HIV and
their children.
- Enabling environment: support
to adolescent mothers to understand and increasingly demand their rights.
Funding Information
The funding available is up to £ 100,000 per
year up to a maximum of £ 300,000 over three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-governmental and
community-based organisations that can deliver change at a community level
through their links with or representation of the communities affected
especially adolescents’ girls and young people, in all their diversity.
- The project must focus on
scaling up or replicating interventions that are proven to work to improve
the lives and wellbeing of adolescent mothers living with HIV and their
children. It cannot be a pilot project.
- Positive Action is targeted at
helping communities affected by HIV and AIDS. Any properly registered
not-for-profit organisation that represents, or is working with or for,
affected communities is eligible to submit a proposal.
- Eligible Countries: Angola,
Botswana, eSwatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Post Date - 02-Sep-2020