Increased Care and Support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

is a cooperative agreement being implemented by AVSI in the countries of Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya with funding from USAID through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and from AVSI.

April 2005 - April 2009

Abstracts presented at the 2006 PEPFAR Implementers' Meeting in Durban, South Africa:

1) Community Partnerships

2) Family Support and Income Generating Activities

Abstracts prepared for the 2007 PEPFAR Implementers' Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda:

1) Quality Education as a Necessary Building Block for HIV Prevention

2) Building Capacity for Community Care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)

3) Data Management Systems in Networks of Local Partners: From Quality to Capacity

Abstracts to be presented at 2008 PEPFAR Implementers' Meeting in Kampala, Uganda:

1) An Example of Capacity Building with Unexpectedly Successful Results