PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Funds NGOs' HIV Prevention Efforts Under PEPFAR

August 17, 2007

Under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. Agency for International Development will provide six grants, ranging from $20,000 to $90,000 each, to support HIV/AIDS preventions efforts by local and international non-governmental organizations, through a Local Partnerships Initiative managed by Pact Viet Nam.

NGOs should apply to Pact Viet Nam, via email "asianguyen@pactvietnam.org" or phone (84-4) 719-5330, for the grants before the deadline of Thursday, September 6, 2007.

Successful NGOs will be awarded the grants to pilot innovative approaches and/or to extend proven community-based HIV prevention programming to not-yet-reached, inadequately reached, or hidden segments of at-risk populations, including sex workers and their clients, injecting drug users, male homosexuals, migrant workers, people living with HIV and vulnerable youth, in the provinces of Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, An Giang and Nghe An. Programming is expected to begin by the end of calendar year 2007.