“Justice Africa is an organisation that stands uncompromisingly for what is right, and is a crucial part of the mosaic of civil society and NGOs working for Africa.”
Professor Alan Whiteside, Commissioner, United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa

The HIV/AIDS programme consists of two initiatives:
1. The African Civil Society Governance and AIDS Initiative (GAIN)
GAIN is a partnership of African organisations that focuses on providing a coordinated, African, civil-society response to HIV/AIDS focusing on alleviating the social, political and economic burdens of the epidemic. The programme was developed as a civil society response, and compliment, to the activities and purpose of the United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. Since its’ inception, GAIN has made distinctive and innovative intellectual and policy contributions to the African and global debate on HIV/AIDS and governance. GAIN brings together treatment activists with democracy and governance advocates in a coalition to address the challenges of ensuring that democracy, human rights and good governance are sustained during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and governments’ responses to it. Further details of the GAIN programme are available here.

GAIN Issues Brief
Current news and research undertaken by GAIN members is disseminated through the regular GAIN Issues Brief, published electronically every two months. Read the GAIN Brief here.

2. Research Programme on the Social Effects of HIV/AIDS
This programme commissions and supports new and relevant small-scale social research into HIV/AIDS produced by African researchers. Its purpose is to both expand the body of knowledge on the social effects of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and to encourage and support an African research capacity to investigate and propose solutions to these challenges.

To access details of current research check the GAIN Brief blog and see our HIV/AIDS research papers.