Improve Financing, Tackle Inequity

Today, the Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS launches a new report and advocacy brief setting out – for the first time – how much is spent on children and adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS, on what, by whom and what the gaps are. We also recommend ways we can achieve more with the funds we have, as well as mobilize more diverse and sustainable sources of funding.

This is an equity issue: Children lag far behind adults in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and many come from populations facing social and structural exclusion, such as young families or key populations. The overall lack of their prioritization is the root cause of low investment in them.

Please share and discuss this report and advocacy brief amongst your own networks and channels and draw from it in the policy and advocacy spaces you operate in. Here is a social media toolkit to help you.

We wish to thank our partners: Avenir Health, WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children, the Governments of Kenya, Uganda and Cameroon, the Global Working Group on Financing for Children and Adolescents Affected by HIV, people living with HIV, PEPFAR, the Global Fund and private trusts and foundations.

We especially wish to thank and acknowledge all people living with and affected by HIV, in particular children, adolescents and caregivers who continue to bear the brunt of inequitable funding gaps and their consequences.

This conversation continues at the 55th UNAIDS PCB meeting in December, which is focused on children, and at the Funders Concerned About AIDS Summit  in January, where the Coalition is hosting a session on Smart Funding. Please take these, and every opportunity, to champion better financing and equity for children and adolescents affected by HIV.

Do you have a question?
Please contact Ashton Josephs, Communications Adviser to the Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS: ashton.josephs@childrenandhiv.org