Stop AIDS Campaign

STOPAIDS is a UK-based HIV, health and rights network. Drawing on its 35-year experience working on the HIV response, it supports UK and global movements to challenge systemic barriers and inequalities to end AIDS and support people around the world to realise their right to good health and wellbeing.  

STOPAIDS
Organisation logo
TypeNGO
HeadquartersLondon
Director
Mike Podmore
Websitehttps://stopaids.org.uk
This article is about the public health campaign in Britain. For the American non profit, see STOP AIDS project.

STOPAIDS convenes and unites UK civil society voices and positively shapes UK leadership in the global response to HIV and other health rights and equity issues. STOPAIDS engages at the global level through involvement/co-hosting of global civil society coalitions and platforms, and directly influences key global processes and multilaterals/partnerships such as UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNITAID, WHO and ACT-A.

STOPAIDS a coalition of more than eighty of the leading international NGOs and HIV/AIDS groups in the United Kingdom. The Stop AIDS Campaign is the previous name of a campaign run by the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development. The Stop AIDS Campaign and the AIDS Consortium relaunched as STOPAIDS, in September 2013.[1]

Members of the network include Christian Aid, CAFOD, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ONE Campaign, UNICEF UK, Restless Development (hosts of theYouth STOPAIDS Campaign) and Oxfam. The network continues campaigns to increase access to prevention, treatment, care and support services for persons living with HIV and AIDS.

In April 2021, following an 18-month trial, STOPAIDS became the first UK charity to implement a shorter working week with no loss of pay. Staff have the option to work 28-hours, down from 35 hours per week, across either four or five days with no loss of pay.[2]

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References
  1. http://stopaids.org.uk/launch-of-stopaids-uniting-uk-voices-on-the-global-response/
  2. "Opinion: This is what happens when you switch to a four-day working week". The Independent. 2021-05-22. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
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