Heartland Alliance International Llc

Programs: The integrated most-at-risk populations hiv/aids prevention program (imhipp) is a nine-year project implemented by heartland alliance international to mitigate the impact of hiv and aids among high-risk populations in nigeria. The program is funded by pepfar through usaid. Imhipp delivers targeted, high-quality comprehensive hiv prevention; sexually transmitted infections (sti) diagnosis and management; hiv testing services; hiv medical treatment, including antiretroviral therapy; and other related activities. From 2009 to june, 2017, imhipp has: provided over 275,487 participants hiv prevention services; treated 14,176 participants for sexually transmitted infections; tested 149,658 participants for hiv; treated 7,212 participants with hiv related medical services (including provision of antiretroviral drugs); provided 2,354 participants with gender related services. The secret of this tremendous success is its uniqueness in adopting the human rights based approach to programming for the key populations.

improving prevention and access to care and treatment cote d'ivoire (impact-ci) was a five-year project implemented by heartland alliance international with local non-governmental organizations and community-based organization partners, with financial support from cdc. Impact-ci increased the quality of hiv/aids prevention and care services among sex workers, men who have sex with men, and their stable partners. Beginning in 2010, impact-ci has provided over 200,000 participants with life-saving health services and commodities. Through collaboration with 14 implementing partners, impact-ci provided the minimum package of hiv/aids prevention activities and interventions. Impact-ci links sex workers and men who have sex with men with welcoming clinics for hiv counseling, testing, and treatment; sexually transmitted disease screening, treatment, and syndromic management; distribution of hiv prevention commodities such as condoms and water-based lubricant; the minimum activities package of care and support and prevention; and management of gender-based violence cases.

in october 2015, heartland alliance international (hai) began implementing the project "upholding and expanding access to justice in iraq: improving protections for detainees and survivors of torture" (cat ii), which seeks to strengthen the government of iraq (goi) and the kurdistan regional government's (krg) compliance with the un convention against torture and better protect the rights of persons held by police and state security forces. The program is funded by the department of state bureau of democracy, human rights, and labor (drl). Hai administered a total of four assessments to determine torture and ill-treatment at detention facilities in the iraqi kurdistan region (ikr) and iraq, providing valuable data that informed focused advocacy efforts with government officials aimed at corrective action. Hai has provided over 238 participants with high quality legal and mental health and psychosocial services. Hai has also trained local partners, police, detention center staff, and lawyers on rights of detainees. After continuous hai advocacy efforts, in march 2017 the government of iraq passed witness protection law. In may 2017, hai and the strategic legislative committee of the government of iraq parliament drafted an anti-torture law, accepted for reading by the government of iraq.

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