Call for Proposals: Ensuring HIV Treatment and Reproductive Health Services for “Doubly Marginalized” Women

Public Health Watch, a project of OSI’s Public Health Program, is seeking grant proposals to support organizations engaged in advocacy efforts to promote access to HIV and reproductive health services for women who face multiple layers of stigma and discrimination, focusing on women injecting drug users, female sex workers, and HIV-positive pregnant women. Public Health Watch will give grants of up to $25,000 to projects that encompass community-based research and advocacy based on the findings of this research.

This call is open only to proposals from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Kenya, and Uganda.

Growing evidence suggests that HIV-positive pregnant women do not have adequate access to HIV and reproductive health services. At best, they are offered a one-time intervention to prevent transmission of HIV to their babies; their longer term health needs are rarely addressed. HIV-positive pregnant women are frequently mistreated in healthcare settings, including verbal abuse and pressure to have an abortion. Pregnant women are tested for HIV without adequate counseling, and often do not receive full information about, or have access to, antiretroviral drugs for prevention of mother-to-child-transmission.

Proposal Instructions

Download the complete proposal guidelines below.

Deadline

The deadline for submission of proposals is January 18, 2008.

Contact Information

For more information contact:

Parker Krasney
Administrative Assistant, Public Health Watch
1-212-548-0661
pkrasney@sorosny.org

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