Priority Impact Areas
Special Initiatives
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Global AIDS Alliance: Campaign to End Paediatric HIV/AIDSChild
Survival | Hunger
Alleviation
& Nutrition | Adolescent Reproductive Health | Early Childhood Development | Educational Achievement | Economic Readiness | Care Environment |  | | | | | | |
| Goal | Scale-up the prevention and treatment of paediatric AIDS by increasing coverage rates for PMTCT and paediatric treatment services to the globally agreed-upon target of 80% and ensuring high quality services to improve survival rates for more than 1 million children. | | Approach | This investment aims to maximise aggregate impact of delivery and advocacy agendas to improve child survival by linking with CIFF and current grantees, as well as further mobilising African advocacy organisations around the following objectives:
- WHO guidelines endorsing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) as best practice for PMTCT are understood and implemented by key policymakers and service providers
- Early initiation of diagnosis and treatment for all HIV-exposed infants and children, including administration of cotrimoxazole
- Allocation of appropriate percentage of total HIV/AIDS resources to achieve 80% coverage rates for PMTCT+ and paediatric treatment and ensure high-quality services
- Nutrition funded as key component of paediatric treatment, including micronutrients
- New fixed-dose combination drugs registered for use in focus countries
- Increased task-shifting to allow trained non-physician clinicians to initiate PMTCT and paediatric treatment
- Improved monitoring and capacity building of local programs to ensure effective implementation of PMTCT+ and paediatric diagnosis and treatment guidelines
| | Investment | $6.3 million to GAA | | Scope | More than 337,000 pregnant women and 690,000 HIV+ children | | Countries | Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia (7 in total). | | Partners | Global AIDS Alliance
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