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Keep A Child Alive
MISSION
Keep a Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support to children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.
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Keep A Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. With more than 28 million already dead, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, threatening economic infrastructure and creating tragic devastation in the family structure. Our work makes it possible for children and families to obtain life-saving AIDS drugs and support for survival, where without it, they would die. Keep a Child Alive gives 100% of donations to our cause.

Through our groundbreaking advertising and media campaigns, we are re-inventing the way the public perceives their role in this issue. Keep a Child Alive is committed to direct action, and remains small and bureaucracy-free so that our speed of response is never hampered. We offer a very real solution to the problem, all on a personal scale.

We focus on the following three areas:
TREATMENT: Anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment has transformed the lives of people with AIDS in the West, returning them from sickness to health. But less than 5% of children with AIDS have access to these life-saving drugs. When the children are infected, 50% die before the age of 2 and 80% die before the age of 5. When the public signs up to become a monthly donor, 100% of their monthly donation goes directly to life-saving AIDS drugs and surrounding care.

CARE: Keep a Child Alive provides the medical services needed to make treatment possible. Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for anti-retroviral treatment to be successful.

ORPHANS: Currently 15.2 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS, and by 2010 the number is expected to reach 25 million. 13 million of these children are in Sub Saharan Africa. These children will face enormous risks in their struggle to stay alive. They will often be forced into sexual exploitation or enrolled as child soldiers, this after the terrible trauma of losing their parents in front of them. Keep a Child Alive supports the children’s extended family caregivers, and builds and sustains orphanages to keep the most vulnerable children out of harm’s way. Orphanages are a last resort, but necessary when children have no extended family to turn to.

We currently provide funding to 14 clinical and orphan care sites in 7 countries:
Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe; with past funding of additional projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa. Recently, Keep A Child Alive expanded its work to India where it supports an orphan care project outside of Hyderabad.

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  • The Black Ball 2009
  • World Health Day
    World Health Day 2009 focuses on the resilience and safety of health facilities and the health workers who treat those affected by emergencies. Events around the world will highlight successes, advocate for safe facility design and construction, and build momentum for widespread emergency prepare...
  • Alicia Keys World AIDS Day Concert to Benefit Keep a Child Alive
    American Express® presents Alicia Keys Live! World AIDS Day charity concert to benefit 'Keep a Child Alive' at NYC's Nokia Theater on December 1, 2009.
  • Stomp Out AIDS
    The University of Central Arkansas Chapter of Keep a Child Alive will be hosting their first annual state-wide step show entitled Stomp Out AIDS on Friday, February 26, 2010 on campus.
  • Wake Up Jax!
    The Wake Up Jax event is a fundraiser for the Who Gives A Buck campaign to raise money for Keep A Child Alive.
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