Re: Bill Gates Blew $258 million in India's HIV Corridor (Avahan Partners)

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LIST OF AVAHAN PARTNERS DURING THE CURRENT PHASE

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Avahan Partners

As Avahan reaches the end of its " build and operate " phase, several of the

partners listed below have completed the work on their grants. These partners

are indicated by the use of the past tense to describe their work.Work by other

partners is ongoing.

Lead implementing partners

Avahan has seven lead implementing partners working in six states who are

responsible for implementing prevention interventions for female sex workers,

high-risk men who have sex with men, and injecting drug users through sub-grants

to grassroots NGOs:

Emmanuel Hospital Association and Australian International Health

Institute—Manipur and Nagaland

Family Health International (FHI)—Maharashtra (Mumbai and Thane)

Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT)—Andhra Pradesh (coastal

districts)

International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA)—Andhra Pradesh (interior districts)

Pathfinder International—Maharashtra

Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative (TAI)—Tamil Nadu

University of Manitoba—Karnataka and three districts in Maharashtra

Two grantees are responsible for programming for men at risk:

Population Services International (PSI) provides prevention services for men at

risk in commercial sex settings across 100 towns in the four southern states and

supports condom social marketing in Avahan districts.

Transport Corporation of India Foundation (TCIF) provides prevention services

for long-distance truckers in 17 truck stops along the major national highways.

Cross-cutting, advocacy, and capacity development partners

American India Foundation (AIF) mobilized non-resident Indians in the U.S. in

supporting HIV/AIDS activities in India.

BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) is developing mass media interventions to

address the normalization of condom use in men across the four southern states.

Care International was responsible for building the capacity of implementing

partners in community led interventions, and it is now responsible for a

community learning site on community led approaches in Rajamundry, Andhra

Pradesh.

Center for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) is working to increase the quantity and

quality of HIV reporting at the state and local level.

Constella Futures worked at the national, state, and local levels for advocacy

strategy development support for issues related to HIV prevention in high-risk

populations.

Family Health International (FHI) is supporting implementing partners to deliver

uniformly high-quality clinical services including services for STIs,

counseling, and basic HIV management.

Family Health International (FHI) and INP+ (HIV positive people's network) are

working to build the organizational capacity of the local NGO, INP+, to expand

its support to people living with HIV/AIDS networks and individuals.

Heroes Project mobilizes local celebrities and develops media company

partnerships for a general public awareness campaign.

Mirabai Films wrote and produced four short films with A-list Indian directors

in the Indian Bollywood style, depicting positive human stories about

individuals, families, and communities affected by HIV and AIDS.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) was responsible for building

the capacity of implementing a dialogue-based approach to communication

interventions.

University of Manitoba is responsible for the development of a community

learning site for community led approaches in Mysore, Karnataka.

Evaluation and knowledge building partners

Corridors of the University of Manitoba is examining the impact of source and

destination interventions for migrant sex workers in northern Karnataka and

southern Maharashtra.

Duke and Yale Universities are documenting the implementation of community led

interventions and identifying elements of successful approaches.

Family Health International (FHI) is responsible for monitoring and evaluation

data collection across the program to measure outcome and impact through

large-scale, cross-sectional biological and behavioral surveys in core and

bridge populations.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) gathered and documented data

on gender-related stigma and sexual violence and their consequences for HIV

among mobile populations.

International Institute of Population Studies (IIPS) implemented an HIV/AIDS

module and HIV prevalence assessment in the six high-prevalence states as part

of the National Family Health Survey 3 (NFHS-3) (a demographic and health

survey).

Population Council is documenting major migration routes for men and sex workers

and investigating facilitators and potential intervention points for possible

HIV prevention interventions.

University of Laval is modeling the impact of Avahan interventions, doing

costing and cost-effectiveness analyses, and performing additional studies to

acquire data for the model including general population surveys, special

behavioral surveys, and polling booth surveys.

University of Toronto is documenting geographic variation in HIV-1 prevalence,

its determinants, and intervention coverage for 115 districts in southern India

and supporting additional activities for evaluation.

Government support partners

Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT) provides technical and

management support to the National AIDS Control Organization and State AIDS

Control Societies for condom programming across India.

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) provides technical and management

support to the National AIDS Control Organization and State AIDS Control

Societies to strengthen programs with high-risk groups.

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