§6822 Grant Authorities

Summary

The Trust Fund, through its Board of Trustees, must only give grants. These grants, including technical help, are to build local ability in national and local governments, civil society, and the private sector to run and pay for HIV/AIDS prevention, education, treatment, care, and research, and to improve access to affordable drugs. Grants can support seven kinds of activities, such as prevention education that stresses avoiding risk (for example, abstinence), safe blood supplies, voluntary testing and counseling, stopping mother-to-child transmission (testing pregnant women, treatment, counseling, and safe infant feeding), help for AIDS orphans and affected families and communities, preventing gender-based violence and giving post-exposure drugs to rape victims, and incentives to make treatments more affordable. The Trust Fund must work with governments, civil society, nongovernmental organizations, UNAIDS, the International Partnership Against AIDS in Africa, other international groups, the private sector, and donor agencies. It must give priority to countries with the highest HIV/AIDS rates or those likely to have high rates. Governments and nongovernmental organizations can get grants. The Trust Fund must not fund projects that are only for preparing loans from international banks.