1997–1998
- The International HIV/AIDS Alliance begins an assessment of its programme needs in India in consultation with NACO, SACS and selected donors.
- Initial support grants are given to selected NGOs—YRG Care, Naz Foundation India, INP+, Sangram and Sharan—that focused on documenting and sharing partner expertise and on building capacity of organisational systems to enable more effective programming for marginalized and vulnerable groups at community level.
1999–2001
- The India HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance India) is formally incorporated and a country office established in Delhi in 1999.
- Alliance India assesses the needs of key populations (KPs) including people living with HIV (PLHIV), men who have sex with men (MSM), injecting drug users (IDUs), and female sex workers (FSWs).
- The Home and Community-based Care and Support Programme (HCBCS) is initiated in Delhi, Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh for PLHIV with early support from European Union.
- Three Linking Organisations (LOs)—the Alliance’s intermediary implementing partners—are identified: MAMTA, PWDS, and VMM.
- Additional funding for HCBCS is secured from the Abbott Fund Step Forward Programme.
- Alliance India supports expansion of implementing non-government organisation (iNGO) networks.
2002–2003
- LEPRA India joins as an LO.
- Scale-up of HCBCS programme continues with increase in number of implementing NGOs.
- Focussed Prevention Programme (FPP) with KPs (PLHIV, FSWs, MSM and IDUs) in Andhra Pradesh is awarded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Avāhan India AIDS Initiative, funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supports Alliance India to further expand prevention programming with KPs in Andhra Pradesh.
2004–2006
- HCBCS and FPP expand programming.
- Start-up of a pilot project with IDU PLHIV communities and their families in Manipur with funding from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance
- With UK Department for International Development (DFID) funding, Alliance India launches a new initiative addressing the feminisation of AIDS in India across six states
- As part of the civil society response to HIV, Alliance India contributes to the development of NACP-III.
- Alliance India leads a process with its LOs to develop a Strategic Framework to guide its work in India.
- Alliance India is formalized as a national secretariat in New Delhi to support a growing network of India-based LOs, implementing partners, and programmes.
2007–2009
- Alliance India serves as Principle Recipient for a Global Fund Round 6 grant to support CHAHA, a care and support programme for children and families affected by HIV & AIDS.
- The Alliance Technical Support Hub for South Asia is launched.
- Alliance India is accredited as a secretariat by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
- Alliance India and VMM are elected to the Global Fund’s India Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) as the civil society representatives, on HIV and on children, respectively.
- Phase 2 of Avāhan India AIDS initiative is signed to continue Alliance India work with FSWs and MSM in Andhra Pradesh.
- Sashakt, a programme supporting the HIV response in MSM, transgender and hijra communities, is awarded to Alliance India by UNDP.
2010 onwards
- Alliance India receives a Global Fund Round 9 grant to launch Pehchān, a programme to strengthen community-based HIV programming for MSM, transgenders and hijras in 17 states across the country.
- The Action Project is funded by the European Commission to expand sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights young people.
- The Elton John AIDS Foundation awards Alliance India funding to develop Chanura Kol, a project addressing the needs of female injecting drug users (FIDUs) in Manipur.
- Alliance India re-launches SETU, a web-based knowledge portal for HIV in South Asia.
- Humsafar Trust, a pioneer in working with MSM, transgender and hijra populations, joins the Alliance’s growing family of linking organisations.
- Along with International HIV/AIDS Alliance’s partners in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Kenya, Alliance India implements the Community Action for Harm Reduction (CAHR) programme in India with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Netherlands.
- The European Commission funds a programme to strengthen civil society organization to support advocacy on SRH and rights for PLHIV.
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