§6822 Grant Authorities

Summary

The Trust Fund must give only grants. These grants can include technical help to build local and national capacity in governments, community groups, and businesses so they can plan and run affordable HIV/AIDS prevention, education, treatment, care, research, and access to affordable medicines. Grants may fund several types of work, including prevention programs (for example, messages that stress risk avoidance like abstinence), safe blood supplies, voluntary testing and counseling, stopping mother-to-child transmission (testing pregnant women, cost-effective treatment and counseling, and safe infant feeding), support and education for AIDS orphans and affected families and communities, steps to prevent gender-based violence and post-exposure treatment for rape victims, and incentives to make treatments 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 must not fund project development tied to bilateral or multilateral bank loans.