mothers2mothers Improved health and prospects for HIV-affected communities

mothers2mothers graduates from LGT Venture Philanthropy’s portfolio after 17 years of partnership. 

Improved health and prospects for HIV-affected communities

Our partnership with mothers2mothers began in 2008 when the HIV/AIDS pandemic was devastating communities across Sub-Saharan Africa – with a disproportionate impact on women and children. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV was a crisis shaped not just by gaps in healthcare, but by deep-rooted stigma, fear and a widespread lack of awareness.

We knew that lasting change required more than medicine. It required trust. That conviction led us to mothers2mothers, a partnership that would run from 2008 to 2025.

Founded in 2001, mothers2mothers is an African non-profit with the primary objective of tackling mother-to-child transmissions of HIV by providing education and improving access to HIV-related healthcare services. The organisation has since evolved into an integrated community healthcare provider to enable it to meet the evolving needs of women, children and adolescents – its primary client groups.

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Our commitment  

We invested in mothers2mothers as part of LGT Venture Philanthropy’s health strategy to focus on models that design, scale, strengthen and sustain digitally empowered solutions to provide high-quality primary healthcare in underserved communities. We provided comprehensive support across three areas:

 

Business expertise 

  • Close collaboration on strategic topics through our board observer role  
  • Support in the re-positioning of m2m as a universal healthcare provider delivering more than HIV-related services 
  • Development and support of resource mobilization strategies to increase unrestricted funding  

Partnership 

  • Introduction to Google’s AI for Social Good initiative  
  • Knowledge-sharing from other LGT Venture Philanthropy portfolio organizations    
  • Connection to the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) 

Capabilities 

  • Unrestricted funding  
  • Funding for core operations, expansion, organizational capacity-building, fundraising, head-office capacity and advocacy  
  • LGT Impact Fellows 
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LGT Venture Philanthropy is a rare breed of donor – one prepared to invest flexibly into building the overall capacity of an organization for impact and scale.

Frank Beadle de Palomo m2m President and Chief Executive Officer
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