New Guide Released Promoting Inclusion of Activities Related to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in Proposals to the Global Fund

Author:

Bernard Rivers

Article Type:

Article Number: 5

ABSTRACT The Global AIDS Alliance has released a guide entitled "Integration of Sexual and Reproductive Health into HIV/AIDS Programming: Guide for Submitting HIV/AIDS Component Proposals to the Global Fund, Round 6 and Beyond."

The Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) has released a guide entitled “Integration of Sexual and Reproductive Health into HIV/AIDS Programming: Guide for Submitting HIV/AIDS Component Proposals to the Global Fund, Round 6 and Beyond.” 

The Guide has two aims.  The first is to encourage and facilitate more proposals to the Global Fund for increased investment in linking sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes with HIV programmes, and vice versa.  The second is to assist countries not yet ready to submit such proposals to understand what is needed to get to that point, including gaining knowledge about the Global Fund and building the capacity of SRH-related organizations to join CCMs, where they have not already done so.

The target audiences for the Guide are CCMs and national AIDS committees, task forces, and organizations working on sexual and reproductive health and/or HIV – both in countries where specific strategic planning in this area has already occurred, and in countries where such planning has not yet begun or is just getting underway, and which might consider proposals benefiting SRH programmes.

Copies of the Guide are available at www.globalaidsalliance.org/docs/Global_Fund_Round_6_HIV_and_SRH_Guide_FINAL_5.17.06.pdf.