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8/4/99
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)

Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (PATH, PAHO, JHPIEGO, AVSC and IARC)
Seattle, WA
$3,345,000 (over 2 years)

Part of an overall $50 million, five-year commitment supporting an alliance of five agencies to work collaboratively on preventing cervical cancer in developing countries.

8/4/99
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (PATH, PAHO, JHPIEGO, AVSC and IARC))
France
$3,952,458 (over 2 years)

Part of an overall $50 million, five-year commitment supporting an alliance of five agencies to work collaboratively on preventing cervical cancer in developing countries

8/4/99
Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada

Scaling-Up Canada's International Reproductive Health Programming
Ontario, Canada
$569,000 (over 3 years)

A venture capital project to enable PPFC to leverage approximately 5.7 million over the next three years. Funds will be used toward international programming to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women, men and youth in developing countries; and to increase the number and significance of reproductive health programs implemented in developing countries with Canadian public and private support.

8/4/99
AVSC International

Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (PATH, PAHO, JHPIEGO, AVSC and IARC)
New York, NY
$3,983,000 (over 2 years)

Part of an overall $50 million, five-year commitment supporting an alliance of five agencies to work collaboratively on preventing cervical cancer in developing countries.

8/4/99
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS)

Expansion of Women's Health Services
Sarasota, FL
$2,500,000 (over 5 years)

Funding will permit expansion and strengthening of the hospital's existing facilities and services in Deschapelles, Haiti. In addition, HAS will create home-based health cards for women and their children; expand and improve prenatal care; improve areas of outreach, education, identification and treatment of STDs; expand outreach and coverage of family planning services; and expand the HAS maternity unit.

8/4/99
Pan American Health and Education Foundation

Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (PATH, PAHO, JHPIEGO, AVSC and IARC)
Washington, DC
$2,091,700 (over 2 years)

Part of an overall $50 million, five-year commitment supporting an alliance of five agencies to work collaboratively on preventing cervical cancer in developing countries.

8/4/99
Population Services International (PSI)

Empowering African Adolescents to Protect Their Reproductive Health
Washington, DC
$5,000,000 (over 5 years)

PSI will take three to five adolescent reproductive health programs to scale over a five-year period, using promising and proven social marketing strategies. This will allow PSI to reach more African young people with the information and products that are essential to adopting healthy lifestyles.

8/4/99
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Gates Youth Centers in South Africa
England
$3,055,708 (over 3 years)

IPPF and the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA) propose to strengthen and develop youth centers in nine communities in South Africa in a three-year project. The goal of the project is to provide young people with both the sexual and reproductive health education and services they need, and the social opportunities they want, to enable them to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancy and sexual violence.

8/4/99
RFSU, Swedish Association for Sex Education

Male Involvement, Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention
Sweden
$1,292,000 (over 3 years)

RFSU, in collaboration with the Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) and the Family Planning Association of Tanzania (UMATI), will establish two parallel, three-year projects in Tanzania and Zambia that will emphasize information, education, behavior change and advocacy, working to increase male involvement in reproductive health and HIV prevention.

8/4/99
World Neighbors

Expanding and Sustaining Reproductive Health and Family Planning in Rural Communities of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Oklahoma City, OK
$4,000,000 (over 3 years)

This initiative will expand and strengthen maternal health, reproductive health and family planning activities in six countries: Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Kenya, and Nepal. This will be accomplished using World Neighbors' integrated, people-centered approach.

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