ViiV Healthcare grants

– ViiV Healthcare today awarded its very first round of tiny grants to support guys who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender community-led interventions to lessen stigma and discrimination centered on sexual direction, gender identity/expression and/or HIV status. 23 non-governmental and community-based organisations will receive up to £25, 000 annually over a-two 12 months period through great Action for MSM and Transgender programme.

Grantees from following nations were selected from 237 applications obtained from 79 nations:

• Bolivia
• Canada
• El Salvador
• Germany
• Ghana
• Guyana
• Asia
• Latvia
• Macedonia
• Malaysia
• Center East and North Africa
• Namibia
• New Zealand
• Pakistan
• Paraguay
• Russia
• Rwanda
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Usa
• Vietnam

The grantees' organisations – which run jobs in 38 nations all over the globe – had been selected by an advisory board of external specialists following an official call for suggestion in March 2015.

“We can attribute the daunting amount of applications gotten as part of our first tiny grants ask for Proposal to your huge need certainly to lessen societal pressures, particularly stigma and discrimination centered on sexual positioning or sex identity, that folks managing HIV face, ” said Michael N. Joyner, Director of Positive Action and Patient Advocacy, ViiV medical. “Through the great Action for MSM and Transgender programme, we hope to handle the influence of the HIV epidemic in this underserved population.”

The chairman of the Positive Action MSM and Transgender programme advisory board, Juan Jacobo Hernández from Colectivo Sol added, “The grantees’ organisations – through their geographies in addition to scope associated with programs – chosen can help make an actual difference to MSM and transgender people in regional communities all over the globe. For The Reason That feeling, the Great Action programme is a welcome addition to existing treatments that address the challenges of stigma and discrimination.”