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By the end of the 1980s, there was clear evidence that HIV was a global development crisis of enormous proportions, that its social and economic consequences were threatening attempts to address poverty in developing countries, and that it was inseparably bound to the challenges of poverty.
In 1991, a group of donor agencies and international organisations began a series of discussions about how to give more support to community groups in developing countries that were carrying out work around HIV.
Over the course of two years, the group commissioned needs assessments, project design activities, two country-level pilot projects and, eventually, a proposal for support in creating the 'International Alliance Supporting Community Action on AIDS’ (later renamed the ‘International HIV/AIDS Alliance’).
