USAID highlights successes of the Alliance

29 July 2005

The work of the Alliance and partners in Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Zambia has been featured in the latest round of USAID’s ‘Success Stories’.

The ‘Success Stories’ series is used by USAID to profile the agency’s successful partnerships with community-based and international non-governmental organisations in the global fight against poverty and disease.

The most recent Alliance success stories to be promoted on the USAID website include:

  • The Centre Oasis in Burkina Faso, which provides HIV prevention information, care and treatment and support for income generation projects for people living with HIV/AIDS.
  • The ARV Community Education and Referral (ACER) project in Zambia, the goal of which is to create treatment literate and HIV prevention-friendly communities.
  • The work of the Alliance’s linking organisation in Cambodia, Khana in providing home care to people living with HIV/AIDS. Khana’s 11 home care teams, which consist of two government nurses and three community-based staff, visit patients at least three times a month across the project’s 35 sites in the 16 provinces hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
  • And, from Cambodia again, the Alliance’s innovative work with Khana and Buddhism for Development who train and support Buddhist monks (see picture above) to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS and services to children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS. Buddhism for Development also operates a six-week 'Peace Development School' in which monks learn about health care and HIV/AIDS, and about community participation.

“This recognition of the Alliance’s successful partnerships with community-based organisations taking action on HIV/AIDS is a real boost, not just to our work with these projects but to all the work of the Alliance,” said Dr Alvaro Bermejo.

“These projects are playing a vital part in making the promise of improved treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS a reality. I am enormously proud of the support the Alliance is providing to these projects and appreciative of the backing we get from USAID which makes this work possible.”