2000s

36.1 million people are living with HIV in 2000.

This is more than 50% higher than World Health Organisation projections made in 1991.

The Alliance (now Frontline AIDS) shifts focus to strengthening capacity and piloting participatory methods with partners. The term “key populations”Key populations include: men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers, transgender people and people who use drugs. In some settings this also includes migrants and people who are in prison. is coined.

The Alliance launches the Frontiers Prevention Project, which aims to slow the transmission of HIV amongst key populations in the concentrated epidemics of Ecuador, India, Cambodia, Madagascar and Morocco. The Alliance’s first multi-country programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation empowers key populations to advocate and change policies that affect them, combined with a package of HIV prevention interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV.

“In the global village in which we live today, no country is safe from the ravages of the pandemic. Therefore, it is in the interest of each and every one of us to ensure that we do everything in our power to eliminate the spread of HIV/AIDS in the quickest possible time and in the most effective way.”

President, Republic of Botswana, H.E. Mr Festus G. Mogae

The Alliance (now Frontline AIDS) contributes to shaping the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) first ever HIV strategy and the European Union’s Programme for Action. We successfully campaign with STOPAIDS and others for a G8 commitment to AIDS treatment for all, mobilising significant funding and leadership for the HIV response.

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A family support session, run by a group of people living with HIV in China. © Kevin Sare / Frontline AIDS 2008s

The first national assembly of people living with HIV in China is held, co-hosted by our former country office Alliance China.

The Alliance now has partner organisations in Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, The Philippines, Ecuador, Senegal, Morocco, Cambodia, Mexico, Brazil, India, Mongolia, Zambia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Caribbean, China, Mozambique, Thailand, Madagascar, Myanmar and Côte d’Ivoire.

Our partner Alliance Nationale des Communuatés pour la santé (ANCS) from Senegal becomes a Principal Recipient of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which allows them to scale up their work. ANCS has been an Alliance partner since 1994.

Men who have sex with men and people who use drugs are included as priority groups in Cambodia’s National AIDS Plan for the first time, due to work by Alliance partner KHANA.

Ecuador changes regulations allowing sex workers to access health services, following a long campaign led by Alliance partner Kimirina.

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Picture of oral HIV PrEP.

A generic version of the drug Tenofovir, a form of oral HIV PrEP, sold under the brand name Truvada, is fully licensed in South Africa, three years after the drug is approved for use in America (in 2004) due to pricing negotiations to make medicines accessible and affordable to countries in the Global South.

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© Gideon Mendel / Frontline AIDS Isobel Molina, President of The Association for the Defence of Woman outside their office in the historic centre of Quito, Ecuador.

The Latin America Partnership Programme Arrangement is launched, bringing together Alliance partners in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru to include perspectives of marginalised communities in policymaking spaces, and to reduce levels of stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV.

The Alliance (now Frontline AIDS) launches a new accreditation system to promote good governance, organisational management and good practice HIV programming.

As a result, partner organisations are better positioned to access funding from the Global Fund and PEPFAR, and to provide specialist HIV programming targeted at ending the epidemic within their countries.

The Community Adolescent Treatment Supporter (CATS) The CATS model was first pioneered by Zvandiri, the Alliance’s partner in Zimbabwe. The Alliance further developed the CATS model by incorporating elements like advocacy, psychosocial support and community sensitisation work with adolescents and young people. model is launched by Zvandiri in Zimbabwe, creating a supportive network that helps adolescents through various challenges associated with HIV, including testing and counselling, disclosure, initiating ART, dealing with adherence issues, and overcoming stigma and discrimination.