ACET International Alliance

ACET Jersey is a member of the ACET International Alliance, a network of independent agencies and church-based organisations seeking together to encourage a Christian response to AIDS and related issues worldwide.

ACET was founded in the UK in 1988 by Dr Patrick Dixon, as a practical, compassionate response to the challenges of AIDS. Today you will find independent ACET programmes in over 20 nations, all working together as part of the rapidly growing ACET International Alliance. The Alliance is a group of independent organisations around the world working to reduce rates of new HIV infection, care for those affected by HIV/AIDS and support AIDS orphans.

Each country director is accountable to their own national board and responsible for their own programmes and funding. Many of these independent organisations now have international influence of their own

Members provide a wide range of vital services relating to HIV/AIDS, working in partnership with governments and other national and international organisations including UNAIDS, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.

An important part of ACET’s role is to help mobilise churches and other faith-based community organisations in compassionate, effective AIDS action, and to help encourage the formation of new culturally appropriate ACET linked programmes wherever local people say they are needed.

Representatives from ACET Jersey have regular contact with ACET partners in the UK and Ireland and attend the tri-annual ACET Global Forum which was most recently hosted by ACET Uganda in January 2008.

ACET Jersey has been able to support fellow members by sharing its publications aimed at Parents and Young People with those working with few or no resources.

ACET International Alliance

 

Last updated April 2010

ACET International Alliance