Positive Action is GlaxoSmithKline's thirteen year-old partnership program supporting community groups around the world who are fighting HIV/AIDS on the frontlines. Working with the most creative and effective grass-roots projects where AIDS is hitting hardest, Positive Action helps communities help themselves.

During 2004, Positive Action supported 32 international programs in partnership with 23 community-based organizations in 35 countries. Positive Action focuses support on capacity building programs which provide community-based organizations with strategic management, leadership, advocacy, fundraising and communication skills, facilitating delivery of more effective and sustainable healthcare services and promotion of human and healthcare rights to improve the quality of lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Positive Action complements other GSK initiatives such as the GSK France Foundation that is active in addressing HIV/AIDS in the developing world with an emphasis on Francophone Africa. The Foundation supports three main areas of HIV education, care and treatment: minimizing the risk of vertical transmission of HIV; providing medical care, monitoring and treatment for adults and children; and improving access to care and quality of care for people living with HIV. The Foundation aims to reach over 300,000 people, providing voluntary counseling and testing facilities and appropriate care and treatment services.