Coalition PLUS (France)
Founded in 2008, Coalition PLUS is an international network of community-based organisations fighting against HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis, committed to promoting rights and access to health for vulnerable populations, such as men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers, people who inject drugs, and transgender people.
Supporting more than 100 organisations in 52 countries, Coalition PLUS focuses on a range of critical areas, including community testing, strengthening sexual health services, harm reduction, local research, advocacy, and capacity building.
It firmly believes in the importance of recognising and empowering people living with HIV, as well as those affected and vulnerable to the virus, emphasising the importance of involving communities in decision-making, programme development, and implementation. Coalition PLUS takes a community-based approach that enhances self-care and fosters collective action.
In 2023/24, the Eurofins Foundation is contributing to the project “Strengthening and deploying proctology care services, in Morocco, Mali, Burundi, Mauritius”.
This project aims to develop community-based management services for anal and vaginal pathologies. Four member associations in four countries (Burundi, Mali, Mauritius, and Morocco), which each run health centres, are taking part in this project.
People living with HIV are at major risk of developing anal pathologies and face a lack of health responses to these specific problems. The highly taboo nature of anal pathologies makes it particularly difficult for some people to seek treatment, meaning diagnoses are usually made at an advanced stage of the pathology, increasing the risk of cancer.
Coalition PLUS seeks to develop community-based management of these pathologies in the health centres of its member associations by implementing training for doctors and acquiring specific medical equipment for proctological management.
This project contributes to the following United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
