Frontiers Prevention Project highly commended in Charity Awards
29 June 2006
The Alliance’s Frontiers Prevention Project was highly commended at the recent Charity Finance Charity Awards 2006, which recognise and celebrate excellence in the leadership and management of charities.
The Frontiers Prevention Project was highly commended in the international aid and development category. The Alliance’s entry highlighted the rationale for HIV prevention investments in vulnerable countries where the epidemic is not yet widespread. One-third of people living with HIV in the world are in countries that do not yet have generalised epidemics. And nearly half of the 4.8 billion people in less developed countries live in areas where the epidemic is not yet widespread.
The entry also explained the Alliance’s participatory approach to its work – the importance of fully involving people affected by HIV and AIDS in the process of local action.
“We are delighted that the Frontiers Prevention Project’s approach has been recognised in this way,” said Sujit Ghosh, senior advisor on cross regional programmes at the Alliance. “Much attention has been focused on countries heavily affected by HIV and AIDS, but focusing prevention efforts with those most likely to be infected in countries which do not yet have generalised epidemics can have a dramatic impact, reducing the scale and spread of the epidemic at a relatively low cost.”
