South Africa confronts HIV prevention challenge for adolescent girls and young women with new Global Fund grant
www.aidspan.org - "This will be the Global Fund’s largest investment by far in AGYW programming: South Africa, home to the largest national HIV epidemic globally, is getting ready to begin implementation of a new Global Fund grant for the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2022 in the amount of $353.3 million. The funding request was submitted during Window 6 (on 6 August 2018) and was reviewed by the Technical Review Panel (TRP) in September 2018.
The TRP recommended South Africa’s funding request.
The grant focuses on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) as a top priority, with $84.6 million (23% of total allocation) requested for a combination prevention program targeting adolescents and youth aged 15 to 24 years, in and out of school. This is significant as it is the country with by far the largest Global Fund investment in adolescents and young people. “As South Africa is a country with the highest HIV burden among young girls and women, and also the biggest male-female disparity, for the Global Fund it is a critical country for addressing HIV among this population,” said Heather Doyle, Senior Coordinator, Gender, at the Global Fund."