French-based PlaNet Finance, umbrella organization of the PlaNet Microfinance Fund, has teamed up with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to launch the Programme for the Support of the Associates and Communities struggling against HIV/AIDS (PAMAC). The program, whose goal is to provide guarantee funds to people with HIV/AIDS, began in January of 2007 in Burkina Faso, a West African landlocked nation with a population of 13.2 mn, 2.3 percent of which are infected with AIDS.
Similar Posts:
- MICROFINANCE EVENT: ANDE Annual Conference; September 12-14, 2023; Accra, Ghana
- MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Oikocredit Lends $3.3m to Witti Finances to Support SMEs in Côte d’Ivoire
- SPECIAL REPORT: Save the Date for SAM 2023 – African Microfinance Week – in Togo, October 16-20!
- MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: African Fintech Nala Expands Remittance Service to EU, Launches Business Platform
- MICROFINANCE EVENT: SAM (Semaine Africaine de la Microfinance); October 16-20, 2023; Lomé, Togo