Frontline AIDS 2020-2022 Frontline AIDS 2020-2022 The 2020-22 core funding support from Sida, in the total of SEK 90 million, aims to enable Frontline AIDS (former International HIV/AIDS Alliance), to deliver on the Global Plan of Action 2020-2025 for a future free from AIDS for everyone, everywhere. 

HIV/AIDS remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity for LMICS in the group of communicable diseases. In 2018, 1.7 million people were newly infected with HIV and 770,000 died of AIDS-related illnesses. More than half of these new infections were among gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and their sexual partners, sex workers and their clients, and transgender people. HIV is the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age and the deadliest STI. This has a disproportionate burden in Subsaharan Africa. Combating HIV/AIDS and focusing on key populations remains a priority for global health. In this context, Frontline Aids work is crucial.

Frontline AIDS is a partnership of civil society organisations working together to end AIDS. The partnership includes current partners (formerly Linking Organisations), and new partners in 36 countries. 

With the new Global Plan of Action, Frontline AIDS is refocusing it's work in key target and most marginalized Groups, with a mission to break down the social, political and legal barriers that marginalised people face and stand in the way of the end of AIDS. To achieve this, ten critical actions will be prioritized  under four partnership promises: I. Speak truth; II. Unlock barriers; III. Invest in solutions; IV. Build a sustainable future. If the actions in this plan are successful, they will make a significant contribution towards global efforts to reduce new HIV infections (goal 1 in the Global Plan of Action) and AIDS-related deaths (goal 2).

Frontline AIDS has been on the frontline of the world’s response to HIV and AIDS for 25 years, working with marginalised people who are denied HIV prevention and treatment simply because of who they are and where they live. A partner to Sida since 1993, the organization is an important and unique global civil society action that has helped fewer people  become infected with HIV and for more people to have access to anti-retroviral medication, especially the most vulnerable and marginalized groups. 

Core funding support from Sida will enable Frontline AIDS to continue working with marginalised people in countries most affected by HIV and in countries with emerging epidemics in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Sidas kärnsstöd under 2020-22, totalt 90 miljoner kronor, syftar till att göra det möjligt för Frontline AIDS (fd International HIV / AIDS Alliance) att genomföra den globala handlingsplanen 2020-2025 för en framtid fri från aids för alla, överallt.

Hiv/aids är fortfarande en av de främsta orsakerna till dödlighet och sjuklighet för låg och medelinkomstländer (LMICs) i gruppen av smittsamma sjukdomar. År 2018 var 1,7 miljoner människor nyligen smittade med hiv och 770 000 dog av aidsrelaterade sjukdomar. Mer än hälften av dessa nya infektioner var bland homosexuella män och andra män som har sex med män, människor som injicerar droger och deras sexuella partners, sexarbetare och deras klienter och transpersoner. Hiv är den vanligaste dödsorsaken bland kvinnor i reproduktiv ålder och den dödligaste sexuellt överförda infektion. Detta har en oproportionerlig börda i Afrika söder om Sahara. Att bekämpa hiv/aids och fokusera på nyckelpopulationer är fortfarande en prioritering för global hälsa. I detta sammanhang är Frontline AIDS arbete avgörande.

Frontline AIDS är ett partnerskap mellan civilsamhällsorganisationer som arbetar tillsammans för att utrota aids. Partnerskapet inkluderar nuvarande partners (tidigare länkorganisationer) och nya partners i 36 länder. 

Med den nya globala handlingsplanen fokuserar Frontline AIDS sitt arbete på de mest marginaliserade grupperna, med målsättningen att bryta ner de sociala, politiska och juridiska hinder som marginaliserade människor står inför och som står i vägen av aids. För att uppnå detta kommer tio kritiska åtgärder att prioriteras under fyra partnerskapslöften: I. Tala sanningen; II. Göra sig av med hinder; III. Investera i lösningar; IV. Bygga en hållbar framtid. Om åtgärderna i denna plan är framgångsrika kommer de att ge ett betydande bidrag till globala ansträngningar för att minska nya hiv-infektioner (mål 1 i den globala handlingsplanen) och aids-relaterade dödsfall (mål 2).

Frontline AIDS har varit ledande i det globala arbetet mot hiv/aids i 25 år, och arbetar med marginaliserade människor som nekas tillgång till hiv-förebyggande och behandling på grund av vem de är och var de bor. Organisationen är en samarbetspartner till Sida sedan 1993 och är en viktig och unik global aktör i det civila samhället. Den har bidragit till att färre människor blir smittade med hiv och att fler får tillgång till antiretroviral medicinering, särskild de mest utsatta och marginaliserade grupperna. 

Kärnstödet från Sida kommer att göra det möjligt för Frontline AIDS att fortsätta arbeta med marginaliserade människor i länder som är mest drabbade av hiv och i länder med framväxande epidemier i Afrika, Asien, Östeuropa, Latinamerika och Karibien. The 2020-22 core funding support from Sida aims to enable Frontline AIDS, a partnership of civil society organisations, to deliver on the Global Plan of Action 2020-2025. 
The vision of this Plan is a future free from AIDS for everyone, everywhere. The mission is to break down the social, political and legal barriers that marginalised people face and stand in the way of the end of AIDS. Ten critical actions will be prioritized under four partnership promises: 
I. Speak truth
1. Engage and influence governments and donors to improve access to comprehensive HIV prevention services (including comprehensive sexuality education and harm reduction) to stop marginalised people acquiring HIV.
2. Drive conversations with governments and donors to secure integrated testing, treatment and care for HIV-TB/HIV-hepatitis C to stop people living with HIV from dying.
II. Unlock barriers
3. Work with marginalised people and their communities to prevent and respond to violence to improve access to, and uptake of, HIV services.
4. Convene community networks to document and respond to human rights violations to hold governments and the private sector to account.
5. Challenge harmful and discriminatory social and gender norms that prevent marginalised people from claiming their right to health.
III. Invest in solutions
6. Innovate, evidence and promote tailored, sustainable and inclusive prevention, treatment and care programmes* to reach marginalised people living with, or at risk of acquiring, HIV that can be taken to scale by governments.
* including access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment, integrated HIV and TB/hepatitis C/cervical cancer screening,integrated psychosocial support, sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV literacy, harm reduction and rights.
7. Invest in partnerships to create tailored economic and educational opportunities for people living with HIV in order to improve their quality of life as well as HIV prevention and treatment outcomes.
8. Invest in, and advocate for greater recognition of and research into, mental health services for people living with HIV in order to improve their quality of life as well as HIV prevention and treatment outcomes.
IV. Build a sustainable future
9. Strengthen community and national health systems and structures to ensure that sustainable, inclusive and evidence informed HIV prevention, treatment and care services are integral to universal health coverage and social support programmes, with full financing by national governments following transition from donor support.
10. Develop a new generation of leaders and activists who advocate for the right to good health and wellbeing for all and who meaningfully participate in, and lead, the HIV response.
Frontline AIDS believes that, if the actions in this plan are successful, they will make a significant contribution towards global efforts to reduce new HIV infections (goal 1) and AIDS-related deaths (goal 2).