Association François-Xavier Bagnoud

The Association François-Xavier Bagnoud ( FXB ) is a ONG whose head office is based in Switzerland.

Created in 1989 by the countess Albina of Boisrouvray, ONG is present in 2007 in 18 countries; FXB carries out 87 Model programs and 21 Villages FXB, and employs 400 collaborators on the ground.

It is a non-profit-making organization within the meaning of the articles 60ss of the Swiss Civil code. It is equipped with the tax statute 501.C (3) in the United States and is governed in France under the amended Loi 1901 and has the special advisory statute near the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

Vision

Association is convinced that the existing inextricable bond between Health and the Human rights is the pivot of a Sustainable development. The orphans of the AIDS, like all the children and/or infected by the virus, are among the most vulnerable children of planet, and they are, for the AFXB, the window of the million orphans of other causes and of the million children of the streets, with the drift of civilization.

Mission

The mission of FXB is to fight against poverty and the AIDS and to support the vulnerable orphans and children that the pandemia of the AIDS leaves in its wake as a militant for their basic rights and offering a total support to the families which deal with them.

Strategy and objectives

Programs FXB aim at reducing the consequences of the VIH/SIDA on the vulnerable company in general and orphans and children in particular. The elaborate strategies depend on the social situation, cultural, economic and policy of each area.

Model Village FXB helps the recipients to become independent and to manage the assumption of responsibility of the orphans of their community. Each program is designed to last three years, taking along more than 500 poor people to socio-economic autonomy.

This model was developed and improved with the passing of years, grace in particular to a constant dialog with the various interlocutors on the ground, to begin with the recipients themselves.

Programs FXB include/understand:

the reintegration of orphans of the AIDS in families of reception
Houses FXB for the vulnerable orphans and children
the development of Income-generating activities (culture, breeding, manufacture, small shop, etc)
prevention of the AIDS and the hygiene of life
the medical support and the access to the antirétroviraux treatments
the nutritional support
schooling and professional trainings
the psychosocial support
formation for the saving and the microcrédit
the legal support and the protection of the rights of the children
the construction of houses and the rehousing of families vulnerable
the construction and the restoration of schools
the management of water and the environment
the palliative care (in France and Switzerland only)

Partnerships

FXB establishes partnerships with local and international organizations with each time that is possible. Through all India, association sensitizes many students and of workers directly on their work places thanks to agreements with schools and companies. In Brazil, it intervenes in collaboration with the national plan MST /SIDA. In Colombia, the AFXB works with the national office ONUSIDA for the prevention of the transmission of the HIV of the mother to the child and in Africa, it is member of organizations of coordination pursuing the same goals.

Impact

FXB influenced the national policy of public health of several countries. In India, its regular reports/ratios on the rural regions and isolated increased and significantly encouraged the follow-up and the monitoring of the cases of VIH/SIDA. In Brazil, it is one of five ONG composing the National council of the VIH/SIDA (a technical advisory counsel created to facilitate the design and the application of the national policy). In Uganda, strong of more than one decade of experiment on the ground, the AFXB highlighted the need for a policy and a structure to support the vulnerable orphans and children (OEV). Moreover, the program of the AFXB in Uganda was indicated as being a national model for the study of the best practices of support of the OEV.

World day of the Orphans of the AIDS

For FXB, these actions carried out illustrate without question the good performances which can be obtained when one endeavors to reinstate the orphans in their company and by supporting the communities which accommodate them. ONG also considers that it is possible to fight this plague effectively and to raise this million orphans of the AIDS and other vulnerable children, in the only condition which the response is supported by a political will of great scale. It is to this end that it took the initiative to create a world coalition of solidarity by initiating on May 7th - world Journée of the orphans of the AIDS”

See too

http://www.fxb.org the official site of International FXB
http://www.7mai.org the site of the World Day of the Orphans of the AIDS

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