Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Young People in Bangladesh

A collaborative project between the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Save the Children USA. Funded by The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) is an independent public-private partnership mechanism working to increase funding to fight these three diseases in countries with the greatest need, and to contribute to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development Goals. In an attempt to avert the epidemic, the National AIDS/STD Program of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has received a grant from GFATM (Round 2) for the prevention of HIV/AIDS among youth and adolescents in Bangladesh. Funded over five years in two phases, the project will support the 2005 UNGASS goal of ‘ensuring that young people have the knowledge, skills and services that they need to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS’, thus contributing to maintaining the current levels of HIV infection to combat the disease. Save the Children USA, as the managing agency, has selected five lead organizations along with 12 others associate organizations from a wide range of NGO, private sector and research organizations to implement the project at the field level.