ANLAIDS Sezione Lombarda

ANLAIDS is the most important Italian Association for the fight against HIV/AIDS spreading in Italy and external countries. ANLAIDS promotes studies and researches on AIDS through calls for scholarships, research PhDs and scientific awards; it organises prevention and health education campaigns with the publication and dissemination of information material and through conferences, debates and targeted interventions, both in schools and in youth meeting venues, it organizes training and refresher courses for socio - health care professionals and volunteers; finally, it supports the start up and the activities of social housing for people living with AIDS. ANLAIDS collaborates with the National Health Service, Universities and Research Institutes, with agencies and voluntary groups, through projects and targeted interventions. Since 1986, annually it organises the Conference on “AIDS and Related Syndromes " about clinical, ethical and social aspects; it implements information services, telephone counselling and psychological, legal, social and medical assistance. The association carries out development cooperation activities for developing countries. ANLAIDS pursue the statutory goals through the contributions paid by its members, the contributions offered freely by citizens, the funds rose from subscriptions to public. Since 1992, ANLAIDS is implementing the following projects at national level and in the same field of ASK project. The "Youth Project", in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, aims to take action towards young people, especially teenagers, through the creation of an interactive multimedia tool to learn information designed to encourage and facilitate the process of self-health. The project consolidated a partnership with schools and especially, with teachers and parents responsible for health education; it established a partnership with the socio-health agencies and educational institutions operating in the field of health education; The "School project" aims at promoting the training activities addressed to school operators on the topic of HIV prevention. The main activities are: • Training courses for doctors talking with teenagers • Training courses for primary and high school teachers • Training courses for high school students aimed at creating groups of students working out communication strategies to disseminate the messages to their schoolmates (peer-to-peer education) • Training courses for volunteers who work only with teenagers • Training courses for parents (in the context of integrated projects of the Institute) • Pedagogic laboratory, made by a group of experts in the field of research, aimed at creating educational patterns for prevention and publications addressing teachers to be used during their courses at school. The Project Management will be under the responsibility of ANLAIDS Sez. Lombardia that has all the prerequisites for the successfully management of the project due to its large experience of managing previous European projects in the last 7 years. The project coordination will be divided in Scientific and Financial Coordination. The project coordinator will create a specific task-force that will be dedicated only to the administrative project tasks. WP leaders will be responsible for the management of each WP in collaboration with the Coordinator. The management structure proposed for the project will also implement a double monitoring on the budget management: the first during each project semester, the second at the end of the interim period. In particular, the integrated Financial Management and Control System (FMCS) will be set up to be used by all the project partners, spanning all items that must be recorded for managing the EC grant and for the smooth running of the project.