A quarterly international newsletter on sexuality, sexual health, and sexuality education.
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Spring/Summer 2004
USAID Announces First Round of Grants for PEPFAR
USAID has announced the recipients of the first round of grants under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).The grants, totaling $34.7 million over five years are going to five organizations for abstinence and behavior-change prevention programs targeted at youth as well as initiatives that support children affected by AIDS.
World Relief, one organization included in the first round of grants, is receiving $9.7 million from USAID to teach 1.8 million youth that abstinence from sexual activity until marriage is the best means of preventing HIV infection.World Relief is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to work "with, for, and from the Church to relieve human suffering, poverty and hunger worldwide in the name of Jesus Christ."World Relief 's primary means of fighting AIDS is with its AIDS Ministries which works to educate people about the "dangers of promiscuity and the spread of the virus-teaching God's design for a faithful monogamous relationship within marriage."1
Other organizations receiving money include the American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services, Habitat for Humanity, and Save the Children. Many advocates believe that this first round of grants was made to more mainstream organizations and that future grants will be more ideologically driven.
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