Africa Action
Link: www.africaaction.org/action/access.htm
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Treatment
Country: United States
Africa Action is the oldest organization in the United States (US) working on African affairs. Africa Action’s mission is to change US-Africa relations to promote political, economic and social justice in Africa. Africa Action provides accessible information and analysis, and mobilizes popular support for campaigns to achieve this mission. This section of their website contains links relevant to their campaign for treatment access for essential medicines for HIV/AIDS and other diseases in Africa.

African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP)
Link: www.achap.org/index.htm
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment | Prevention
Country: Botswana
The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) is a collaboration between the Government of Botswana (GOB), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Merck Company Foundation/Merck & Co., Inc., to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in Botswana. ACHAP, established in July 2000, supports the goals of the GOB to decrease HIV incidence and significantly increase the rate of diagnosis and the treatment of the disease, by rapidly advancing prevention program, healthcare access, patient management and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
Link: www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Newsletters|Treatment
Country: United States
American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR)offers several e-newsletters. "amfAR e-News" is a monthly update on the programs and activities of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). "NAUC Updates" provides information on the annual amfAR-sponsored National HIV/AIDS Update Conference. "TREAT Asia Report" is a regular update on amfAR's initiative to build a Therapeutics, Research, Education, and AIDS Training network in Asia and the Pacific. "Treatment Insider" features special reports on emerging medical breakthroughs and controversies and is published as a regular insert in HIVPlus.

Association of Nutrition Agencies (ANSA)
Link: www.aidsnutrition.org/
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Care and Support
Country: United States
Association of Nutrition Agencies (ANSA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission to enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS and other life threatening illnesses by strengthening the capability of community-based nutrition programs through technical assistance, information sharing, group purchasing, education, and advocacy.

Children's AIDS Fund (CAF)
Link: www.childrensaidsfund.org
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: OVC
Country: United States
The Children's AIDS Fund (CAF) works to limit suffering of children and their families caused by HIV disease by providing care, services, resources, referrals, and education. The Children's AIDS Fund (CAF) was founded in 1988 as a program of Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy (ASAP). ASAP initiated the program--then called the ASAP Children's Assistance Fund--to help HIV-impacted families deal with a variety of practical aspects of living with HIV.

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Link: www.iavi.org
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Treatment
Country: United States
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is a global organization working to speed the development and distribution of preventive AIDS vaccines.

Support, Empowerment and Awareness for HIV/AIDS: The Online Research and Self-Help Exchange (SEAHORSE)
Link: www.seahorse.oxi.net/nu/
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Care and Support
Country: United Kingdom
Support, Empowerment and Awareness for HIV/AIDS: the Online Research and Self-Help Exchange (SEAHORSE) is Europe's interactive on-line HIV resource. This site is the gateway to all the major European HIV/AIDS resources available on the web.

Treatment Action Campaign
Link: www.tac.org.za
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Treatment
Country: South Africa
The Treatment Action Campaign advocates for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments.

Women, Children, and HIV
Link: www.womenchildrenhiv.org
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Category: Treatment
Country: United States
The Women, Children, and HIV website is the result of a collaboration between the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and the Center for HIV Information (CHI) at the University of California San Francisco. It disseminates state-of-the-art clinical information and training resources on mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV and related topics.

World Bank HIV/AIDS
Link: www1.worldbank.org/hiv_aids/
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Country: United States
The World Bank--in partnership with others--is working to roll back the spread of this global epidemic. As the largest long-term investor in prevention and mitigation of HIV/AIDS in developing countries, the World Bank Group is working with its partners to: prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS among vulnerable groups and in the general population; promote countries' health policies and multi-sectoral approaches (e.g. by working in education, social safety nets, transport and other vital areas); expand basic care and treatment activities for those affected by HIV/AIDS and their families, as well as for children whose parents have died of AIDS and other vulnerable children. The World Bank is working with all regions in the developing world that are affected by HIV/AIDS.

World Health Organization's (WHO's) 3 by 5 Initiative
Link: www.who.int/3by5/en/
Link Type: Care, Support & Treatment
Country: Switzerland
The World Health Organization (WHO) created the 3 by 5 Initiative because there are currently six million people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries that urgently need access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). Only 400,000 have this access. WHO and its partners are working with full commitment to achieve the 3 by 5 target--providing access to ART to 3 million people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries by the end of 2005.