about us
 

Who We Are

The Football for an HIV Free Generation –F4 – is a collaborative initiative by:

Africa Broadcast Media Partnership (ABMP) is an historic pan-African coalition of broadcast companies for the purpose of reinvigorating and increasing the effectiveness of broadcast media’s contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Inspired by UN Secretary General’s call to action under the Global Media AIDS Initiative, the ABMP creates a structured framework for leveraging broadcast media resources with the goal of significantly expanding HIV/AIDS-related broadcast programming across Africa.

Coxswain Social Investment plus (CSI+) advocates a new perspective to public-private partnerships and social development for both public and private institutions, ranging from corporations to local organizations to government agencies.

CSI+’s strategies, concepts, and advice include concrete ways to enhance investments in social development that goes beyond mere rhetoric. As a South-African wholly women-owned company, they are deeply rooted in Africa with a regional hub in Nigeria, and an extensive global reach with regional offices in Hong Kong, Denmark, Switzerland and the US. CSI+ serves as the secretariat and coordinator of the F4 initiative

  
  Grassroot Soccer (GRS) is an international nonprofit organization that is using the power of soccer in the fight against HIV and AIDS. In addition to developing soccer-themed multimedia educational tools, GRS trains community role models in sub-Saharan Africa to deliver a sports-based HIV prevention and life skills curriculum.

Since 2003, over 250,000 youth have graduated GRS programs in 14 African countries, armed with the knowledge, motivation, life skills, and support to live HIV free. As a leader in HIV prevention and Sport for Development, GRS prides itself on developing cutting-edge, evidence-based interventions that turn the tide against HIV and AIDS. GRS is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

loveLife is South Africa’s national HIV prevention programme for youth.

loveLife has brought together a broad based coalition of international foundations working in HIV/AIDS prevention, major South African media organizations and private corporations, the government of South Africa, and leading South African non-government organizations with one shared goal – to turn back the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and related epidemics of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, among South Africa’s young people. Launched in September 1999, loveLife seeks to substantially reduce the HIV infection rate among young South Africans – and to establish at the same time a new model for effective HIV prevention among young people.

UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative joint venture of the United Nations family, bringing together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations in the AIDS response to help the world prevent new HIV infections, care for people living with HIV, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic.

With its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the UNAIDS Secretariat works on the ground in more than 80 countries worldwide. UNAIDS helps mount and support an expanded response to AIDS – one that engages the efforts of many sectors and partners from government and civil society.