FHI is a global health and development organization whose science-based programs bring lasting change to the world’s most vulnerable people, including children. Among its worldwide staff of 2,500 are leading physicians, scientists, and technical experts in medicine, public health, development, and management. FHI’s work is global in scale yet country-focused, with 30 international offices staffed by local professionals. Since 1971, FHI has worked with thousands of partners in 125 countries, forging strong relationships with governments, diverse organizations, the private sector, and communities. By applying science to programs, FHI is helping countries make measurable progress against disease, poverty, and inequity—improving lives for millions. FHI’s programs and research have helped foster many breakthroughs:

• FHI-led clinical trials have evaluated nearly every type of modern contraceptive method, leading to approval and introduction in many countries.
• FHI was the first to demonstrate that antiretroviral therapy can be delivered on a large scale in low-income countries, through practices we established and promoted.
• FHI helped establish the effectiveness of nevirapine in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
• FHI led work that is advancing the development of new HIV prevention technologies, microbicides and pre-exposure prophylaxis.

We worked on the development of a vaccine for rotovirus, a diarrhea-causing virus that leads to the deaths of more than half a million children each year.

FHI has a team of professionals with extensive expertise in evidence-based OVC programming and has worked for more than a decade to improve the wellbeing of OVC in Africa and around the world, reaching more than 800,000 children to date with evidence based solutions, services and support. FHI has ample experience designing and implementing complex, multi-country programs in Africa. One example is the Faith-based Regional Initiative for Children (FABRIC), a five year program implemented in Zambia, Namibia and South Africa that reached more than 17,500 OVC with comprehensive services.

FHI has also developed strategies and guidance to ensure high quality programming for OVC at the country level, such as the Child Outreach Strategy, which is FHI’s Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS Programs Focusing on OVC, and the Quality Improvement Guidelines for Care and Support Programs for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children. Using these tools, FHI has worked to strengthen the organizational, financial and technical capacity of its local implementing partners to help them become key stakeholders in their country’s national response to OVC.

For more information about FHI, please visit our website at www.fhi.org.

Its community projects are located within 4 strategic pillars. These are; Water (Access, Sanitation, Watershed Protection and Productive Use of Water); Health (Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Hepatitis); Education; and Entrepreneurship. TCCAF also assists communities in times of disaster and strife through its Humanitarian Relief programs. Over 500,000 people, in various parts of Africa, have benefitted from an investment of more than $25 million in nearly 140 projects community projects in 34 countries since 2006. As part of refining its funding model in 2009, TCCAF has made a strategic shift from being solely funded by The Coca-Cola System to proactively seeking cofounders.

Recognizing that no single organization can effectively address Africa’s development challenges alone, TCCAF utilizes and mobilizes resources and expertise from a broad spectrum of stakeholder partnerships, including NGOs, governments, community based organizations and private sector companies. TCCAF is pleased to have initiated the seed funding for Rotarians For Fighting AIDS in 2004 and in being a part of building the strategic plan for the ANCHOR partnership to get started. Our funding commitment to this program now is $1.2 Million for a three year period. TCCAF was awarded RFFA Partner of the Year in 2008 at the Rotary International Los Angeles convention.

By harnessing the compassion and commitment of dedicated staff and volunteers to deliver sustainable, high-impact, community-based services to the poor and needy, HOPE worldwide changes lives.

According to UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, Hope Worldwide has developed “Best Practice” community models that they use across Africa.  These “Best Practices” will impact more than 145,000 orphans over the next 5 years.   Hope worldwide began in 1989 as the Centre D”Assistance in Abidjan and initiated three small projects in 1991.

In 2004, Dr. Mark Ottenweller from Hope Worldwide worked with Marion Bunch from RFFA to establish The ANCHOR Partnership with the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and the Emory Schools of Public Health and Nursing.   Dr. Marc Aguirre serves as the Regional Orphan and Vulnerable Children Advisor for all Anchor programs.  Dr. Ottenweller, also of Hope worldwide, serves on the OVC Task Force of the US Government while Dr. Aguirre serves on UNICEF’s Regional Inter-Agency Task Team on Orphans for Africa.

Hope Worldwide currently works in over 60 countries around the world.  It is registered with USAID and has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.  Together with its Anchor Partners, Hope Worldwide would like to expand the projects and their impact to sites around the world.

In a report dated September 30, 2008, PEPFAR gave lifesaving antiretroviral treatment to over 2.1 million men, women, and children living with AIDS around the world.  In addition, PEPFAR provided 9.7 million people affected by HIV/AIDS with compassionate care, including nearly 4 million orphans.  An estimated  240,000 babies have been born free of AIDS because of PEPFAR’s support to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission program.

Recently, the U.S. Congress authorized up to $48 billion for PEPFAR over the next five years.  In this new phase, PEPFAR’s goals will be to support treatment for 3 million people, to prevent 12 million new infections, and to care for 12 million people, including 5 million orphans.

HIV-Free Generation initially targeted Nairobi, Kenya as its pilot location to develop and test best practices.  The overall goal is to reduce new infections among youth aged 10-24 and then rapidly take lessons learned and apply them in other countries hard hit by the epidemic.

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Meet Youth Where They Are - and Meet Them Everywhere

Because youth float between many situations and settings that may put them at risk, we concentrate combination prevention programs at multiple outlets within a single geographical area, including faith-based venues, schools, out-of-school centers, and businesses.
As different age groups need different programming, and data shows that young girls are more likely to access programs and change behavior if they have a “safe space,” we create age- and female -specific sites and programming.
Use 21st Century Approaches to Change Behavior - and Maintain the Change

Leverage expert knowledge of companies whose success depends upon changing youth behavior, including use of video games and text messaging. Build upon the core competencies of the private sector in market and other research to evaluate behavior change in real- time and to rapidly modify approaches to maximize efficacy.
Get Youth Off the Streets - and Keep Them Off the Streets

Use expertise in behavior change held by the private sector to draw youth to prevention sites, reach them while they are there, and keep them coming back.
Identify job opportunities, train and place youth through prevention sites, and provide entrepreneur mentorship linked to real jobs for economic gain in private sector businesses.
Pilot the Partnership in Kenya and rapidly expand to other PEPFAR countries. In Kenya, HIV-Free Generation will:

Engage existing partners in multiple sectors across Nairobi to rapidly enhance and expand youth program offerings at prevention sites.
Develop modules for different interventions and evaluate efficacy of each module for rapid dissemination through PEPFAR.
By accessing hard-to-reach populations and more effective programming, seek to reduce new infections among youth aged 10-24.
Through the Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation, the public and private sectors reach beyond what was once considered possible, and deliver hope, health and a better future to thousands of young people.

Learn More: www.hivfreegeneration.org | www.PEPFAR.gov

• HOPE worldwide, a faith-based non-government organization that has a Best Practice Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) model program and a multi-country professional staff in Africa.
• RFFA mobilized the Rotary clubs in each country to provide volunteer support for this program.  The international Rotarians provided funding support for the education of the children through RFFA’s Orphan Rescue program.
• The Coca Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) which represents the largest multinational for profit corporation on the continent of Africa (Coca-Cola Systems).  They provided $1.2 Million USD as a sub grant to the primary funder (PEPFAR), as well as media support.
• Emory University Schools of Public Health and Nursing who established the Monitoring and Evaluation standards for the program.
• PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) was the primary funder of this program and provided $8.1 Million USD through USAID in six African countries over a five year period (2005 to 2010). 

See the below table for breakout of the results.