The Global Alliance to Immunize against AIDS (GAIA) is working hard to stop HIV on a global scale.
GAIA’s mission is to promote the development of a globally relevant and globally accessible vaccine against AIDS. However, since the development of such a vaccine is years away, GAIA also coordinates HIV education, prevention and access to care programs in Providence and Bamako, working to stop HIV until a vaccine is developed.
In keeping with these objectives, GAIA has developed innovative programs to disseminate HIV prevention information such as the Here Bolo peer education program, presented at the World AIDS Conference in Mexico, July 2008, and “Chez Rosalie”, a mother to child HIV transmission prevention program based at the Hope Center Clinic in Bamako.