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HIV/AIDS

Camp Heartland believes that all children deserve a welcoming place within our world. A national nonprofit, Camp Heartland enhances the lives of children impacted by HIV/AIDS and other suffering youth through year-round support, advocacy, recreational programs and community educational efforts.

Founded in 1993, Camp Heartland has created and implemented model programs for children with HIV/AIDS, grieving children, inner-city children living in poverty, foster children and other at-risk, suffering and marginalized youth. Through our year-round facility in northern Minnesota and rented facility in southern California, Camp Heartland is able to serve thousands of children each year.

Camp Heartland

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.

Since it was founded in 1946 to help control malaria, CDC has remained at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats. Today, CDC is globally recognized for conducting research and investigations and for its action oriented approach. CDC applies research and findings to improve people’s daily lives and responds to health emergencies—something that distinguishes CDC from its peer agencies.

CDC is committed to achieving true improvements in people’s health. To do this, the agency is defining specific health impact goals to prioritize and focus its work and investments and measure progress.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Everything UNICEF does is guided by the principles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognizes that children have the right to develop physically, mentally and socially to their fullest potential and to express opinions freely. HIV/AIDS is one of UNICEF’s primary concerns because the epidemic is undermining so many of these basic child rights. UNICEF is one of the key UN agencies in the fight against HIV.

UNICEF is mobilizing financial resources and helping persuade governments to put HIV/AIDS at the top of their agendas and to treat the epidemic as a national emergency. UNICEF is working with government, non-profit organizations and religious groups, youth organizations and many other partners in 155 countries around the world to combat the epidemic.

UNICEF

Project Inform has been at the frontlines in the fight against HIV/AIDS since 1985—when reliable information about the disease and its treatment was nearly impossible to obtain. Project Inform is a national, nonprofit, community-based organization working to end the AIDS epidemic. Our mission is to:

Inform people living with HIV, their caregivers, and their healthcare and service providers about the treatment and monitoring of HIV disease;
Advocate to facilitate research towards a cure and appropriate policies, legislation and funding for HIV research, treatment and care; and
Inspire people to make informed choices, take effective action in the fight against HIV and choose hope over despair.

Project Inform

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