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RTI International
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194 USA
Phone: 919-541-6000
Fax: 919-541-5985
Project Director: Saul Helfenbein
AIDSTAR Sector One IQC Manager: Alison Mitchell,
amitchell@rti.org,
Tel: 919-541-5840
Vice President, Center for International Health: Barbara Kennedy,
bkennedy@rti.org,
Tel: 919-541-6294
About the RTI International AIDSTAR Sector One Team
The RTI International team offers USAID extensive worldwide experience in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs. We are innovators with reputations for effectively working with local organizations to increase and expand their long-term capacity to deliver high-quality HIV/AIDS programs and services. With broad expertise in prevention, palliative care and support, pediatrics and family-oriented antiretroviral treatment (ARV), clinical- and community-based training, applied research, community-based orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming, gender and stigma and discrimination, working with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs), and institutional capacity building and sustainability, RTI’s team is uniquely assembled to be responsive to USAID Missions’ AIDSTAR Sector One task order (TO) requests.
The RTI team has permanent offices and/or ongoing projects in over 80 countries, including all 20 U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief focus and second tier countries, and has fostered an impressive range of relationships with community-based, civil society, and faith-based organizations. RTI’s consortium can mobilize quickly to respond to TOs and provide the combination of skills necessary to meet the needs of USAID Missions and Bureaus using the AIDSTAR mechanism.
As the prime contractor, RTI brings a strong, multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral perspective to the consortium. Our experience bridges development sectors from health and education to democracy and governance, each of which is important for an effective, country-level response to HIV/AIDS. In addition to our strengths in research, policy, strategic planning and capacity building, our experience spans technical areas at the heart of the AIDSTAR Sector One: prevention education, HIV counseling and testing (HCT), care and support, knowledge management, and monitoring and evaluation.
The RTI International team is comprised of:
- RTI International: The second-largest nonprofit contract research organization in the United States, currently working in 47 countries, RTI brings management experience and technical expertise in HIV/AIDS in workplace programs, district scale-up of services, costing and resource planning, policy and intervention-based research.
- American Red Cross (ARC): The world’s largest humanitarian network with 181 active Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, ARC mobilizes broad networks to address HIV prevention, care and support, counseling, treatment activities, blood safety, and training.
- Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI): The largest university-based pediatric HIV/AIDS program, BIPAI brings HIV/AIDS capabilities in pediatrics care and treatment, and training.
- CARE: With HIV/AIDS capabilities in multi-sectoral approaches to HIV/AIDS programming across disciplines. CARE will provide technical leadership to wrap-around planning approaches, community-based OVC programs, and cross-cutting interventions that address gender, stigma, and discrimination.
- International Humana People to People Movement: An international organization comprising 28 national associations, Humana supplies HIV/AIDS expertise in the unique “total control of the epidemic” approach to prevention, care and treatment.
- Infectious Disease Institute (IDI): A Ugandan-based NGO affiliated with Makerere University, IDI brings HIV/AIDS experience in care, prevention, and treatment through training and research, clinical care, and engaging PLWAs.
- The Manoff Group: A woman-owned small business and leader in social marketing and behavior change communication (BCC), Manoff will design communications materials and lead BCC as it pertains to PMTCT, treatment adherence, ABC prevention activities, and palliative care interventions.
- Pact: Specializing in M&E and capacity development of local NGOs, building networks, coalitions and strategic alliances, Pact will contribute to HIV technical areas including treatment adherence, OVC, ABC prevention, palliative care, and outreach activities for at-risk populations.
- Plan USA: An international NGO, Plan has extensive HIV/AIDS expertise in addressing OVC needs, adherence support and home-based care programs that link treatment facilities to individuals, and strengthening systems to assist in quality care and treatment.
- Project Concern International (PCI): PCI brings extensive experience in building capacity of local organizations and communities as well as HIV/AIDS expertise in prevention, HCT, health care delivery systems improvement, working with PLWAs, OVC support, and applied and formative research.
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