our strategic plan 2015 2018

The HIV Foundation Asia

Innovation at the cutting edge of HIV service delivery for key

populations in Asia

Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018

1 Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018

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Welcome

Thank you for your interest in The HIV Foundation Asia. My name is Nikorn and I am the

foundation’s Executive Director. The HIV Foundation Asia is an independent, non-profit

organization intensely focused on the development of service innovations and the delivery of

services in Asian capitals and major Asian cities. As well as serving the slums and poorer suburbs

of selected Asian cities, we engage in cutting-edge research and facilitate capacity development

designed to contribute to an AIDS-free future for Asia. We were registered in Thailand in January

2012 as The HIV Foundation Thailand. Our head office is in Bangkok and we have a locally

constituted Board of Directors.

Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018 introduces The HIV Foundation Asia. In it we describe our mission

and vision and the populations we will serve in the four years from 2015-2018. Successfully

meeting the goals outlined in this plan is dependent upon the availability of funding. Hence, we

will evaluate our financial capacity to meet our goals at the mid-term point at the end of 2016.

We will also at the end of every year evaluate our plan, process and results in order that we best

serve the neediest people. This plan should be read with the companion document Our Action

Areas 2015-2018 which outlines goals and key performance indicators for our work over this

period.

The plan was developed through research and discussion with our Board of Directors, our staff,

and our clients and key partners in the region. I express my deep gratitude to all of you for your

contribution which has been essential to our success so far and which will be essential to our

success in the future.

This plan should be read with the following companion documents:

Our Action Areas 2015-2018

Our Capacity Statement

Creating Shared Value – an invitation to the corporate sector

Thank you once again for your interest in our organization.

Nikorn Chimkong

Executive Director


Table of Contents Welcome……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..... 2

About Us…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4

Our Mission…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4

Our Vision………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4

Who we serve………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4

Why we serve them……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5

How we serve them……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5

Where we serve them……………………………………………………………………………………………………………5

Our Strategic Priorities 2015-2018………………………………………………………………………………………...6

1. Continuous innovation in HIV-positive prevention services………………………………..6

2. Contribute new knowledge and expertise to the HIV sector in Asia…………………...7

3. Create shared value through corporate partnerships in HIV……………………………...7

4. Develop and sustain our regional alliance……………………………………………………….…8

Strategic Action Areas to 2018………………………………………………………………………………………….….9

ACTION AREA 1: INCREASE MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE OF HIV STATUS……………………………...9

ACTION AREA 2: LINK TO CARE………………………………………………………………………………………….…9

ACTION AREA 3: MAINTAIN UNDETECTABLE VIRAL LOAD IN PEOPLE WITH HIV……………….….9

ACTION AREA 4: SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH RELATED DISEASES……………………………………………...9

ACTION AREA 5: ENCOURAGE LIFELONG HEALTH SEEKING……………………………………………….…9

ACTION AREA 6: BUILD SECTOR CAPACITY…………………………………………………………………….…….9

Evaluating Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018……………………………………………………………………….……9

Talk to us………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……….10


About Us

The HIV Foundation Asia is a regional technical hub that designs and distributes new knowledge

and new service methods that can interrupt HIV transmission, illness and death. We publish

what we do in an open-source online environment so governments and service organizations

can freely use what we learn. We are technically supported by the health development

organization APMGlobal Health.

The HIV Foundation Asia makes a real difference in people’s lives. During the period of this plan

we will continue to establish a network of independent, nationally constituted HIV Foundations

to deliver services in urban settings in Asia. These foundations will cooperate together in a

regional alliance to deliver service innovations ‘on the ground’ that have been developed by The

HIV Foundation Asia. The HIV Foundation teams are made up of people from Asia and the globe

that work side-by-side in multiple languages to promote health. Our foundations emerge from

communities bearing the brunt of HIV.

Our Mission To connect people affected by HIV and related diseases to services that can save their lives.

Our Vision

We work for an AIDS-free future in which people no longer get sick from HIV or related diseases

and where all people, no matter who they are, can gain equal access to health services and

participate fully in community life.

Who we serve

The people we serve include:

All people living with HIV.

Families, women and children affected by HIV.

Migrants, displaced and stateless people.

Key populations for HIV that bear the brunt of the epidemic in Asia.


Why we serve them

There is no time to lose. In Asia, ongoing and emerging HIV epidemics among key populations

show no sign of abating. At the same time, key populations for HIV are the least likely to come

forward for health services. These groups fear and regularly experience prejudice and

judgmental recrimination that stop them accessing or returning to health and welfare services

that can save their lives. Poverty is also a significant barrier to health seeking within such

communities. HIV-related human rights violations remain a serious barrier to health access in

Asia. Gaps between health and community services are a reason why people diagnosed with HIV

disappear from health service systems, only to return when they are dangerously ill and disabled

with HIV. In some cases, it’s simply not possible to then keep them alive.

How we serve them

The HIV Foundation Asia designs service innovations that close gaps in urban health systems and

focuses on minimizing stigma and discrimination in local places where people live so that they

can get what they need to live long and healthy lives with HIV and related diseases. In the

absence of a cure for HIV, we believe that our approach can contribute to interrupting HIV

transmission and to minimizing the harms caused by HIV and related diseases.

Where we serve them

Global estimates show that as many as 50 percent of people living with HIV reside in cities. In

Asia, low national prevalence masks high HIV prevalence in cities and in particular key

populations in urban settings who are at higher risk for HIV. Urbanization trends in Asia are

unique - more than half the world’s mega-cities are located in Asia. Asia is heading to have the

world’s largest number of hyper-cities – cities with populations exceeding 20 million. Rural-to-

urban migration in Asia is, in reality, migration from rural settings in to urban slums where

poverty, crime, lack of hygiene and sanitation and overcrowding pose health risks. For this

reason, The HIV Foundation Asia prioritizes delivering services in cities, with a particular focus on

slums and poorer neighborhoods and in hospitals and clinics frequented by the urban poor.


Our Strategic Priorities 2015-2018

From 2015 to 2018 The HIV Foundation Asia will focus upon four strategic priorities to

contribute to creating an AIDS free future in Asia.

1. Continuous innovation in HIV-positive prevention services.

2. Contribute new knowledge and expertise to the HIV sector in Asia.

3. Create shared value through corporate partnerships in HIV.

4. Develop and sustain a regional HIV foundation alliance.

1. Continuous innovation in HIV-positive prevention services

The HIV Foundations are different. Most HIV prevention services focus on preventing people

acquiring HIV in the first place. They often assume the people they reach are HIV negative.

People newly diagnosed with HIV in those services are likely to be lost-to-follow-up. We employ

traditional outreach techniques that have previously been used to keep HIV negative people HIV

free. We seek out undiagnosed people who have HIV but don’t yet know it. Through outreach

we identify ‘high HIV incidence networks’ in urban settings where HIV is being transmitted at a

rapid rate.

We assume the people we are reaching are already HIV positive. We test people for HIV in these

networks and support those diagnosed with HIV to live long and healthy lives. In epidemics

where large numbers from key populations are living with HIV (but don’t yet know it), assuming

that we are talking to people with HIV is essential to interrupting HIV transmission, illness and

death. But there are few HIV prevention services that focus on finding and supporting

undiagnosed people with HIV in Asia.

‘In-reach’ is a mix of outreach/case management provided in government clinics and hospitals

to the urban poor. We deliver in-reach to find and support people with HIV and related diseases

in these systems who need added support to get the services they need. Our in-reach is

particularly sensitive to supporting the sexual health, reproductive and fertility choices of

women and girls living with HIV. Our in-reach is also sensitive to the sexual and gender issues

faced by same-sex attracted men and transgender people living with HIV. Our in-reach/case

management emphasizes support to people co-infected with tuberculosis and/or living with

hepatitis B and C.


2. Contribute new knowledge and expertise to the HIV sector in Asia

The HIV Foundation Asia develops cutting-edge research and designs innovative service models.

We partner with international, regional and national organizations to create shared value.

Together, we generate new ideas, new partnerships and new knowledge that can contribute to

achieving an AIDS free future. We partner with research institutions, governments, and for-

profit and not-for-profit organizations. We develop sector capacity by publishing technical

briefs, delivering education and training and publishing ‘how to’ guides in multiple Asian

languages. By engaging in this work we aim to help governments, service organizations and our

own regional foundation alliance to deliver HIV programming of the highest possible quality.

A unique aspect of our foundation is that we both technically design and deliver services. We

apply new ideas to services that we then deliver in the streets, the slums, in homes, workplaces

and in hospitals of cities to improve people’s lives. We pay for lifesaving treatment for people

with HIV, including migrants, stateless people and refugees. We cross borders to get people

health care. During this plan we will partner with multiple organizations to produce new

knowledge and expertise for HIV and related diseases sectors in Asia.

3. Create shared value through corporate partnerships in HIV

The HIV Foundation Asia develops partnerships with corporations to extend our reach in to

workplaces. We design projects and services that make it easy for corporate partners to join us.

We tailor our programs to assist the corporate sector to meet corporate social responsibility

goals. During this plan we will experiment with staff exchange programs that help corporate

staff develop leadership skills through initiatives that enhance emotional intelligence, empathy

skills and generosity. These are important skills for the corporate leaders of tomorrow. A key

priority is to support organizations to meet the HIV and related diseases needs of their

workforces. We’ll develop CSR health strategies and health-related human resource polices as

part of our goal to create shared value with the corporate sector. We design systems to

promote the positive results achieved by our corporate partners while also working with them

to improve the health and wellbeing of people affected by HIV in Asia.


4. Develop and sustain our regional alliance

During the life of this plan we will develop and sustain a regional alliance of HIV Foundations in

Asia. The HIV Foundation Asia aims to replicate our unique service model of HIV positive

prevention to at least one other city in Southeast Asia. Because of new and emerging epidemics

in urban settings across Asia there is no time to lose. In 2012 we began delivering services from

Bangkok. In 2015 we will have established services in Yangon. Should funding be available, we

will extend beyond these cities to more cities in Asia. We aim to create independently capable,

local organizations with their own Boards of Directors that can deliver high quality services to

key populations in urban settings. The spirit of this cooperation is of national foundations in

control of our network and working in partnership with The HIV Foundation Asia.

The HIV Foundation Asia acts as a technical support and management hub for national

foundations we nurture in our regional alliance. We support the financial and administrative

management of national foundations so they can operate in a way which is both professional

and accountable to donors. We seek out funding options and support national foundations to

comply with and to acquit their grants. We will support local HIV Foundations by extending this

network further and by delivering technical and management guidance to improve city-based

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Strategic Action Areas to 2018

The HIV Foundation Asia will contribute to creating an AIDS free future by meeting our strategic

priorities through six key action areas. These action areas will contribute to an environment

where key populations for HIV can engage easily with health services that keep them alive. Read

more about our action areas and how we will measure success in the companion document Our

Action Areas 2015-2018.

ACTION AREA 1: INCREASE MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE OF HIV STATUS We will reduce undiagnosed HIV in selected cities in Asia by designing and delivering service

innovations that target high HIV incidence networks in urban settings and reducing the numbers

of people diagnosed with HIV with serious HIV-related illness.

ACTION AREA 2: LINK TO CARE

We will link people to care by designing and delivering innovations that bridge gaps between

primary testing sites and tertiary hospitals and improving case management service models for

key populations.

ACTION AREA 3: MAINTAIN UNDETECTABLE VIRAL LOAD IN PEOPLE WITH HIV

We will support people with HIV to initiate HIV treatment and maintain undetectable viral load

by innovating though online service provision and face-to-face service delivery.

ACTION AREA 4: SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH RELATED DISEASES We will support people co-infected with HIV and related diseases through innovations in online

services, face-to-face services and through new organizational partnerships.

ACTION AREA 5: ENCOURAGE LIFELONG HEALTH SEEKING

We will create urban social spaces that are more accepting of people affected by HIV and

related diseases by engaging in street-based and online awareness raising and advocating for

health system improvements in multiple Asian languages.

ACTION AREA 6: BUILD SECTOR CAPACITY

We will build the capacity of the HIV sector in the region by partnering with international,

regional and national organizations to deliver research, develop policy and design service

innovations. We will publish case studies, manuals and how-to guides in multiple languages in

an open source environment that delivers these guides to other organizations for free.

Evaluating Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018

Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018 has introduced The HIV Foundation Asia, our mission and vision

and the strategic priorities we aim to deliver in Asia by 2018. This plan should be read with the

companion document Our Action Areas 2015-2018. In that companion document we outline our

targets for the six action areas outlined above. We detail Key Performance Indicators against

each action area. We describe how and when we will evaluate our success and how we will use

those evaluations to improve the quality of our performance over time.


Talk to us

We can achieve the vision outlined in this strategic plan but only through the generosity of

individuals like yourself and organizations that come forward to support us. We seek partners

who share our vision and are willing to form an alliance to finance and resource it. Please talk to

us about funding our services so we can further develop this lifesaving work.

For English, please speak to:

Scott Berry, Regional Advisor


149/19-21 Surawongse Road, Bangrak Bangkok. 10500. Thailand.

PO BOX 1028 Silom Bangkok. 10504 Thailand.

Telephone: +66 2 6340541 | Facsimile: +66 2 6340545






149/19-21 Surawongse Road, Bangrak Bangkok. 10500. Thailand.

PO BOX 1028 Silom Bangkok. 10504 Thailand.

Telephone: +66 2 6340541 | Facsimile: +66 2 6340545





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