Partners
The Staying Alive Foundation relies on its partners to identify and select all Staying Alive Award winners. We partner with organizations that have broad global reach, and that work closely with young people to keep them safe from HIV and other sexual and reproductive health risks.
If you hope to win a Staying Alive Award, your chances of winning will be better if you ask one of our partners to nominate you.
The American India Foundation (AIF) is a non-profit organization with the mission of accelerating social and economic change in India. AIF works in three areas: Education, Livelihoods and Public Health, and through partnerships with effective NGOs provides grants that benefit impoverished groups in India. AIF also administers SAHAYA: Youth against AIDS, the Service Corps, and Digital Equalizer initiatives. Former President Bill Clinton serves as AIF’s Honorary Chair.
AIF is determined to galvanize action on stopping the further spread of HIV/AIDS in India, and to do so with a broad range of players both in the US and in India. Since 2005 a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation enables AIF to educate and mobilize the Diaspora community to provide voice, visibility and leadership on fighting AIDS in India.
The Body Shop International is a global manufacturer and retailer of naturally inspired, ethically produced beauty and cosmetics products. Founded in the UK in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick, we now have over 2,100 stores in 55 countries, with a range of over 1,200 products, all animal cruelty free, and many with fairly traded natural ingredients.
Dance4Life is an innovative, international collaborative project aimed at providing an opportunity and platform for young people to become more actively involved in the fight against HIV and AIDS Dance4Life is the youth brand of the World AIDS Campaign.
In order to actively inspire and mobilise young people to take the lead in pushing back HIV and AIDS and to become young leaders and ‘Agents of Change’, Dance4Life uses all aspects of youth culture to reach out and connect to young people; their icons, their media, and their favourite music and dance. Dance is a universal language, it’s healthy, positive and already connecting young people, all over the world. Through Dance4Life young people now start dancing with a cause.
EngenderHealth works to improve the health and well-being of people in the poorest communities of the world. We do this by sharing our expertise in sexual and reproductive health and transforming the quality of health care. We promote gender equity, advocate for sound practices and policies, and inspire people to assert their rights to better, healthier lives. Working in partnership with local organizations, we adapt our work in response to local needs. EngenderHealth currently supports projects in 40 countries throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Since 1971, the non-profit Family Health International (FHI) has been at the forefront of public health research, prevention, care and treatment in the developing world. FHI delivers services and conducts research in HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases and reproductive health to improve the lives and well-being of some of the world’s most vulnerable people, especially youth.
FHI managed USAID’s YouthNet program, a five-year, global initiative to improve reproductive health and prevent HIV infection among people 10 to 24 years old. YouthNet was a dynamic collaboration among young people, parents, schools, employers, policymakers, health professionals, faith-based programs and community leaders. FHI, which has also managed the US government’s three largest global HIV projects (AIDSTECH, AIDSCAP, IMPACT), employs more than 1,700 people in 65 countries, with offices in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Founded in 1991, the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) mobilizes and supports diverse community organisations to build an effective global response to HIV and AIDS. ICASO operates from its International Secretariat in Canada and through Regional Secretariats based in five continents.
Through its work, ICASO seeks to build community sector capacity to directly advocate for their own needs, to mobilize and strengthen community sector partnerships and networks, and to advocate for the effective implementation of universal access to comprehensive HIV and AIDS services.
Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW) is the global leader in engaging and supporting young people to address the urgent health, education and environmental issues which affect their lives, and the lives of their families, communities and countries. Over 20 years working in Africa, South Asia, the USA, UK and Australia, SPW has developed a unique range of approaches that work alongside existing institutions and structures that enable young people to lead development processes that:
The impact of SPW’s support for youth leadership development at local, national and international levels is producing a fundamental societal shift in perceptions about young people, emphasising that the contribution of young people to development and their full engagement in decision-making processes is both valuable and essential.
