The Great Lakes Initiative on HIV/AIDS (GLIA) Support Partnership

On 15 March 2005, The World Bank approved a US$20 million grant to step up the fight against HIV/AIDS in the six countries of the Great Lakes region— Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda—which are home to more than six million people living with HIV/AIDS, and more than three million children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.

The Great Lakes Initiative on HIV/AIDS Support Project will finance prevention, care, and treatment, programs for large numbers of refugees, migrant and transport workers, highly infected groups, and others which move  between the five Great Lakes countries, with a strong emphasis on coordinating a regional, cross-border response to combating the disease.      
More details on GLIA

GLIA and the Constellation

The Constellation will develop and support in each GLIA country a SALT Team a GLIA core facilitation team. The SALT team will have at least 6 members who come from PLWHA and long haul transporters networks. They will stimulate and connect responses to HIV/AIDS by communities which belong to their networks.

The GLIA core facilitation team which will stimulate the process within and between the GLIA countries and connect the GLIA with other groups and organisations committed to AIDS Competence.

We will be providing updates on progress with the GLIA Partnership in the months ahead.