A goal of the SECURE THE FUTURE program is to share lessons learned in a timely manner and on an ongoing basis with funders, non-governmental organizations, businesses, academia, and government agencies that are committed to addressing the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. For SECURE THE FUTURE, lessons have emerged and continue to emerge from a broad range of activities -- from grantmaking processes to defining real life models for providing comprehensive HIV/AIDS care in resource limited settings to identifying the essential qualities and skills of leaders working on the front lines.

We are presenting these lessons through three separate but complementary types of documents. Taken together, they reflect the passion and will, accumulated technical know-how, and persistent and creative problem solving that have gone into and come out of SECURE THE FUTURE thus far:

"Our Story" is a brief, narrative account of the experience of the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Foundation and its partners in conceiving, executing and continously refining SECURE THE FUTURE from May 1999 to May 2004.

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, "Our Story" Lessons Learned (PDF: 3.64MB)

"Case Studies" is a series of reports that provide accessible information about the most impactful models to emerge from the program as well as interim and final reports on the implementation and impact evaluation of the 6 Community-Based Treatment Support Programs and the NGO Training Institute -- the two key legacies of the program. The series draws on information provided by project activity and monitoring and evaluation reports.

SECURE THE FUTURE® Case Study -- Volume 1 (PDF: 7.91MB)

SECURE THE FUTURE® Case Study -- Volume 2 (PDF: 6.45MB)

SECURE THE FUTURE® Case Study -- Volume 3 (PDF: 4.16MB)

"Operational Lessons" will capture the experiences of the individuals directly involved in the management and execution of the Community-Based Treatment Support Programs and the NGO Institute. The lessons that will be recorded here cannot be found in monitoring and evaluation reports. Rather, these lessons are relayed more anecdotally and reveal how challenges small and large, expected and wholly unanticipated were met and overcome, or perhaps met and not overcome. This document will attempt to faithfully record these lessons, which are essentially about how individuals and organizations are brought together and find ways to work together to care for people in their communities who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

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