Archives in the category: HIV-AIDS

ONG La Colombe

$10,000 to organise HIV anti stigma campaign and education among women living with HIV&AIDS and to train and provide resources for 20 women living with HIV to serve up income generating projects of their choice such as market gardening, animal husbandry, fish farming and food preservation.

Swaziland Positive Living (SWAPOL)

$25,000 to conduct a workshop for community caregivers to be empowered on treatment literacy. 40 community caregivers will be trained on PMTCT Option B+.

Her Rights Initiative

$20,000 to advocate for the integration of cervical cancer treatment into HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment policies as a result of the high number of women living with HIV reporting cases of cervical cancer.

Khulumani Support Group

$15,000 to work with a group of 25 widows in each of eight townships across Gauteng Province in monthly forums that provides a space to explore the stigma faced by widows in poor communities and to equip the widows with knowledge and skills to counter stigma related to HIV & AIDS.

Umtata Women’s Support Centre

$10,000 to reduce the incidences of violence by engaging rural and urban communities and youth in and out of school through public awareness and education on women’s human rights, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking and sexual reproductive health and rights.

Social Relief & Development Agency

$10,000 to create HIV&AIDS awareness amongst young rural women who leave their families in the pastoral plains in search of better livelihoods in the surrounding villages doing menial work such as house maids.