Red Ribbon Award – Honouring the best in community support to people living with and affected by HIV
1 December 2013 –– On this year’s World AIDS Day, UNAIDS and civil society partners, in collaboration with the organisers of the XX International AIDS Conference, jointly announce a global call for nominations for the 2014 Red Ribbon Award. The award, which will be presented at the XX International AIDS Conference in July 2014 in Melbourne, Australia, honours community-based organizations for their contributions to the response to the AIDS epidemic. Winning a Red Ribbon Award is highly coveted by community organizations around the world.
In 2012, more than 1400 nominations were received. The award not only brings a deserved spotlight on the most inspiring and innovative community responses, it also highlights the crucial importance of the community response to HIV and helps communities advocate for their involvement in the response to HIV with local, national and global leaders and decision makers.
The biennial award will be given to 10 organizations that have shown outstanding community leadership and action on HIV. The five award categories are:
• Prevention of sexual transmission
• Prevention among and by people who use drugs
• Treatment, care and support
• Advocacy and human rights
• Stopping new HIV infections among children and keeping mothers alive; women's health.
Each recipient of the award will receive US$ 10,000. Representatives of each winning body will present the work of their organization, their priorities, the challenges they face and their approaches to community engagement at the XX International AIDS Conference from 20-25 July 2014 in Melbourne, Australia, where the Red Ribbon Awards will be presented.
Nominations will be accepted from 1 December 2013 through 31 January 2014. Submit nominations on-line at www.redribbonaward.org, where further information can be found. Community-based organizations (CBOs)* working to halt and reverse the spread of HIV are encouraged to apply.
The Red Ribbon Award 2014 is funded by Irish AID and UNAIDS.
* Please note that only CBOs with an annual operating budget below US$ 200 000 should be nominated, and that organizations should have been established for more than one year at the time of the nomination.
View full Press Release and Call for Nominations.
For more information, please visit www.redribbonaward.org or contact:
UNAIDS Geneva
Sophie Barton-Knott | tel. +41 22 791 1697
bartonknotts@unaids.org
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
UNAIDS
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The Red Ribbon Award Partners
