HIV/AIDS and Human Rights

Guidelines

The Law and Health Initiative provides core institutional support and technical assistance to organizations with a dedicated mandate to use legal strategies seeking to address the link between the global HIV epidemic and human rights abuses against women, injecting drug users, sex workers, prisoners, gay and bisexual men, and other vulnerable groups. LAHI also supports advocacy and networking to increase the profile of legal and human rights issues on regional and global HIV/AIDS agendas.

LAHI welcomes letters of intent from organizations seeking support for projects in one of five focus areas. Please observe the following guidelines. Letters of intent should:

• be no more than two pages
• describe the general purpose of the application, the proposed project, and the organization seeking funds
• disclose any current or previous funding from LAHI or any other OSI or Soros foundation program
• be sent by email (no phone inquiries please) to lawandhealth@sorosny.org.

Letters may be brief and informal.

Geographically, LAHI limits its support to Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, sub-Saharan Africa, and China and Southeast Asia.

Applicants invited to submit a full application or who wish to review LAHI’s application guidelines, please see the application form, available for download below.