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Protecting Human Rights and Promoting Social Justice:
Highlights from Global Lessons Learned about
HIV/AIDS Leadership, Equity, Accountability, and Partnerships (LEAP)

UCLA Program in Global Health; July 2010

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Since 2006, the UCLA Program in Global Health (PGH), along with other organizations around the world, have partnered with the Ford Foundation as part of its Global Initiative on HIV/AIDS. This initiative, spearheaded by Jacob A. Gayle, a Deputy Vice President of the foundation, is designed to build upon and maximize the impact of the foundation’s longstanding HIV/AIDS work and focuses on four key themes—-leadership, equity, accountability, and partnerships (LEAP). The grantee organizations working on this initiative are an extremely diverse group, addressing a wide range of social and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS at local, national, regional, and global levels. These include organizations of varying sizes, levels of experience, and constituencies, which both embody and endeavor to promote the principles of leadership, equity, accountability, and partnerships as we strive to make a difference in HIV/AIDS work throughout the world.

This report, prepared by the UCLA PGH, is intended for funders, policymakers, and those in civil society, with the purpose of stimulating a continued commitment to the LEAP principles, and partnering with and supporting organizations involved in this work. In this report, we highlight key initiatives from a sample of fellow grantees of the Ford Foundation’s Global Initiative on HIV/AIDS, all of whom are dedicated to protecting human rights and supporting social justice in their HIV/AIDS work.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all of the grantees of the Ford Foundation’s Global HIV/AIDS Initiative for their vision and commitment to making a difference, and for their assistance in preparing this report.

Special thanks are also due to Jacob Gayle, Zonibel Woods, Rowena Nixon, Suzan Gabaris, and Monique Ekmekjian of the Ford Foundation.

This report was funded with generous support from the Ford Foundation.