§6822 Grant authorities

Summary

The Trust Fund, through its Board of Trustees, must give only grants (including technical help) to build local ability in national and local governments, civil society, and the private sector to run affordable HIV/AIDS prevention, education, treatment, care, research, and to improve access to affordable medicines. Grants may support things like prevention and health education that stress risk avoidance (for example, abstinence), safe blood supplies, voluntary HIV testing and counseling, preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission (including testing pregnant women, affordable treatment, counseling, and safe infant feeding), help for AIDS orphans and affected families and institutions, stopping gender-based violence and giving post-exposure care to rape victims, and incentives to make treatments more affordable. The Trust Fund must work with governments, civil society, NGOs, UNAIDS, the International Partnership Against AIDS in Africa, other international groups, the private sector, and donors. Priority goes to countries with the highest or rising HIV/AIDS rates. Governments and nongovernmental organizations can get grants. The Trust Fund cannot fund projects that are meant only to develop loan-financed projects with bilateral or multilateral banks.