HIV/AIDS

Pact believes that the most successful responses to HIV/AIDS are built upon the commitment and ownership of local leaders and communities. Our strategy links support to community-based organizations through grants and the provision of technical, organizational and institutional capacity building that enable communities to develop and sustain appropriate responses in HIV prevention, care and mitigation.

Community-level responses can only be sustained, however, by influencing broader contextual factors, such as improved health infrastructure (including access to key services) and social norms. To this end Pact also engages with key stakeholders to create a supportive policy environment whereby individuals' and communities' commitment to developing a comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS is reinforced by public policy.

The values that support our responses to HIV/AIDS include a commitment to working with vulnerable and at-risk populations and implementing programs based on the greater involvement of people living with AIDS (GIPA) principles. GIPA recognizes the key contributions that people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS can make in a comprehensive response to the epidemic and the need to create opportunities for their active participation in all aspects of the response to HIV/AIDS.

To implement our HIV/AIDS programs, Pact partners with local, regional and international organizations in the public and private sectors. Our partnership approach is based on three pillars:

• To build service effectiveness, efficiency and quality through incorporation of HIV best practices based on national and international standards
• To ensure financial accountability through program and financial management capacity building
• To build institutional sustainability using organizational development strategies.

Pact works hand-in-hand with local partners to support programming in a variety of areas that directly impact the HIV pandemic, including:

• Behavior change
• Prevention
• Care and treatment of People Living with HIV (PLHIV)
• Counseling and testing
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
• Stigma and discrimination reduction
• Support for orphans and vulnerable children
• Increasing organizational networking capability
• Support for community level caretakers
• Advocacy

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Staff contacts

	Sujata Rana Senior HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor, Washington DC srana@pacthq.org
	Polly Mott Program Director Community REACH, Washington D.C. pmott@pacthq.org