Organisations serving the needs and interests of people affected and/or infected by HIV/Aids are listed here.
74 causes found:
Abangani Nkosini /Alexandra Children's Haven
We are now 3 years old and still a grass roots community based organisation caring predominantly for Children orphaned by HIV Aids in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, Gauteng. We are presently completing our second set of financial audit papers. ...
The Aids Resource Centre is a church-based ministry that has grown from strength to strength and evolved over the past 5 years. The difficulties we have experienced along the way have only drawn us closer to God, the giver of our strength and we trust Him to guide us each day along...
Amatola HIV/AIDS Intervention Project started off as a concept in 1998 emanating from escalating rate of HIV/AIDS in the region especially among the youth and level of ignorance shown by the rural poor people especially youth young adults and their families. Dealing with sex...
AMCARE (Alberton Methodist Care & Relief Enterprise) was started in 2002 by the Alberton Methodist Church as a Community Outreach Programme. We feed more than 3 000 people per week and are also responsible for a Victim Empowerment facility, which can house up to 10 abused...
Basadi Ba Tokollo (hereinafter to as BBT) is a non profit organisation founded on the 2nd October 2002 by women from Dube Village Soweto and was formally constituted on the 10th December 2002. The concept of BBT was born out of the need to empower communities in different aspects...
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Berlin Advice Centre
To educate the community on HIV/ AIDS issues. Assist sufferers to apply for HIV/ AIDS grants. Celebrate HIV/ AIDS day events. Workshops on counseling. Conduct HIV/ AIDS awareness workshops. Strengthen support groups. Setting up home based care. People are informed about the disease...
St Bernard's Hospice is a non-profit, Non Government Organisations who offers home based Palliative care to terminally ill HIV/AIDS, Cancer and Motor Neuron disease patients for the community of the Buffalo City Municipality area.
The emphasis in South Africa today has been placed very firmly on Primary Health Care in the prevention of illness. This responsibility lies mostly with the nurse in the community. Through education and preventive action, healthy eating and lifestyles can be promoted,...
Centre for AIDS, Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE)
The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS social research, programme development and communication.
CINDI was founded in July 1996 as it became clear that new collaborative initiatives to strengthen the capacity of communities to cope and to reduce the stigma of AIDS would be necessary if the needs of an increasing number of children affected by the epidemic were to be met....
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Community AIDS Response (CARE)
We believe the best way to help people living with HIV and AIDS is to look after ourselves and each other, to acknowledge our needs and build us up to bring our best to the time in which we are living.
The extreme poverty and lack of socio-economic fundamental rights that are strongly benefiting to the HIV/ Aids infected and affected women and youth of the Eastern Cape South Africa that need to be first tackled in order to curb down the escalating rate of HIV/ Aids that is access...
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Diocese of Umzimvubu Makers Plan Project
The project started in 2004. The members of the Mothers Union identified children who have been the victims of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in the community. They felt that there should be services rendered to these families. They started caring for orphans and vulnerable children as best...
Epworth Children’s Village in Germiston is one of the few organisations in South Africa willing to take on the challenge of rehabilitating ‘problem children’. It is the only Children’s Home in Gauteng that provides a Residential Programme with a specific focus on a long-term,...
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Etafeni Day Care Centre Trust
72% of Nyanga's adults are unemployed. Over 29% are HIV positive. Many children, whose parents might have died or are ill, need reliable adult care. Many vulnerable adults need support to move towards health, self-reliance and responsibility. The Etafeni Centre provides a lovely...
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Fikelela Aids Project
At the Fikelela Children's Centre in Khayelitsha abandoned and orphaned children are nursed back to health and placed with trained and monitored foster parents. Support groups for HIV positive adults are being run at 10 churches and a peer education programme is being piloted
The specific objectives for the funding application are to empower the continuance and expansion of service delivery of Home-based Care to HIV/AIDS patients and the HIV/Aids orphans in the targeted areas. No other facility of its kind is in the areas of Cradock, and Hofmeyr. Good...
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Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA)
Grandmothers Against Poverty and Aids (GAPA) vision is that all grandmothers will enjoy quality of life despite the hardships caused by the HIV/ Aids. We aim to build the capacity of affected grandmothers through education and support. GAPA is a voluntary organisation employing two...
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Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust
The Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust is in its 16th year of ministry and has grown to become one of the leading HIV/AIDS projects in the country. The journey has been sometimes uplifting, sometimes hard, sometimes frustrating, but always affirming in faith. The ministry attempts to...
HIV South Africa offers a range of psychosocial care and support programmes, including counselling, adherence counselling and training, support groups and HIV/AIDS education and support. These projects are complemented by nutrition education, food gardening activities, home based...
Hlongwa Community Based Organisation Network, aims to focus its operations in the area of Maphumulo Local Municipality (KZ294) which include 32 Traditional Council. To give capacity building through re-evaluating what we mean by family and community. This will include questioning some...
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Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand incorporating Hospice in Soweto
Hospice Palliative Care services in Home Care. Our first full time nursing sister was employed in We purchased our first property in Houghton through the support of JCI. The Greendale House was built, which incorporates an In-Patient Unit, medical consulting rooms, day care centre,...
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Hospice Rustenburg
Hospice Rustenburg was established on October 1997 in response to the overwhelming need in Rustenburg and surrounding communities. We are affiliated to the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA). In October 1999 Hospice Rustenburg was registered as a Section 21...
Viljoenskroon Hospice was founded in 1993 and has been actively involved in home-based care for terminally ill patients since its inception. Traditionally we were a Hospice caring for people suffering with terminal cancer and other life threatening diseases, until the HIV/AIDS...
House on the Rock at present has got 40 children and one mother and child. We receive no government funding (not through lack of trying), we rely totally on the generosity of the community, companies and overseas donors to survive.
Humana People to People in South Africa is a section 21 non-profit company registered in 1995 in order to respond to the socio-economic needs of the underprivileged South Africans.
Internationally, HPP-SA is a member of the Federation of Humana People...
A community worker in home-based care in 2000 came into contact with children who had been orphaned by the death of their parent due to HIV/AIDS. She soon realised that her calling was to care for these orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). Ikagen Itireleng was therefore born...
The name of the orginasation Ikgothatse ka Bophelo project was formed in 2001 where a few unemployed people of the community formed it and it was located in the township of Katlehong. The aim was to give support to the the members living with HIV /AIDS condition. The Ikgothatse ka...
iThemba Care began as a Trust in April 2002. We have 9 members and 2 directors who oversee the day-to-day running. We have a chartered accountant for accounts and an external auditor who audits our financial statements. Accountability and transparency are a priority. All our members...
iThemba Lethu was constituted in November 2000 and is registered with the Department of Social Development as a non-profit organisation (014-699 NPO), and with SARS as a public benefit organisation. iThemba Lethu seeks to impact the lives of children and young people in...
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Kakaretso Development and Training Trust
The organisation functions in the former homeland of Qwaqwa, which is situated on the Eastern Free State Province. The communities served by the organisation consists of a variety of people of whom majority are unemployed and with no source of income. They reside in widely...
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Kwanele Home Based Care Project
Kwanele Home Based Care was founded in March 2000. Kwanele started as concerned community of volunteers responded to the needs of the people living with an impacted by HIV and AIDS. Just over 5 years later, Kwanele is still aiming to provide quality care and support for the people...
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Le Bon Samaritain-asbl
The Organization is run by a coordinating bureau which is the supreme body. It catering for both refugees and South Africans, and it services are rendered free of charge on voluntary principles. Membership is voluntary and free of charge.
The AIDSMO Trust was constituted in 1999 & Lebone House opened its doors to 15 children 6 months later. Five years on bears witness of God's greatness when one sees the miracles that have occurred: the acquisition of our own property; more than five times the children; an...
The Lighthouse Children's Shelter began in 2000 when a couple opend their home to be a place of safety for a 3 day old baby girl. Soon after receiving this little girl into the family, they opened their home to six more children in crisis and thus began the project of the...
The Fish Hoek Baptist Church leadership became challenged by the tremendous HIV/ Aids needs within its greater community and began discussing the possibility of an outreach programme into the local community with a particular emphasis on health and education. The HIV pandemic is the...
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Living In Hope
Living In Hope is a non-governmental organization which was established in 1998 from humble beginnings and its operations are based in the Region B that is within the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council. The organization is focused on HIV/AIDS, health promotion and development...
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Magical Moments
To create Magical Moments and Extra-ordinary days for Aids orphans, abused, abandoned, neglected, disadvantaged and underprivileged children.
In 2001, some members of the Wesley Community Centre were involved in an interdenominational group set up by the Rev. Gavin Taylor and other ministers, to explore practical ways that the churches and other faith-based organizations could add value to the government’s plan to...
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Makhuduthamaga Home /Community Based Care Umbrella NPO (MK-HCBC)
The MakhuduThamaga Home/Community Based Care umbrella organisation was founded in 2003 in order to better coordinate and capacitate the small Non Government Organisation/Community Based Organisation/Faith Based Organisations. These organisations were familiar with the...
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Mamelani Projects
The Mamelani Wellness Program provides a hands-on, practical approach to living with major illnesses such as AIDS and TB through proper nutrition and a positive outlook.
Major diseases are widespread in South Africa, particularly in the numerous informal...
The Free State province in the heart of South Africa is one of the very poorest areas in the country and is the province with the second highest incidence of HIV and AIDS (33 %).
It is a largely rural province of vast geographical proportions with very little...
Most of the people living in Nomzamo and Lwandle are employed in the Helderberg basin. The main source of employment is currently in the building industry. Many people arriving in the townships come from the Eastern Cape in search of work but this is becoming increasingly...
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New Life Centre
To provide spiritual, physical and psychological assistance. Provide effective outreach ministry. Provide basic needs in emergencies such as relief shelter. Create a database (attendance register, out reach register) and recruit suitable qualified personnel to assist in the day to...
Officially opened on the 14th April 1999, Nkosi's Haven is a home to destitute HIV/AIDS infected and affected mothers and their children as well as children orphaned by AIDS to ensure that they are able to live in an environment of acceptance and understanding. At Nkosi's Haven,...
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Positive Women's Network
In 1996, 60 women who were diagnosed HIV positive decided to join hands in Garankuwa Hospital, located in the Northwest of Pretoria, to form a support group which in February of the same year gave birth to Positive Women's Network.
The organisation started as...
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Prosperity Youth Centre
Any South African sentenced to prison is at high risk of contracting HIV before he even arrives at prison for the first time. Conditions in South African prisons also contribute to increased HIV prevalence due to gang violence, overcrowding, poor nutrition and inadequate health care....
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Qholaqhwe Advice Centre
Qholaqhwe Advice Centre was formed in June 2000 by the concern residents of the village. The main focus was to empower community and educate them about their rights in the Constitution. The organisation was registered under non-profit organisations on the 15 October 2001. On the 1st...
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Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide
The area we are servicing is greatly affected by poverty, lack of employment opportunities, lack of information, political and development apathy, high rate of illiteracy and being adjacent to Letsitele Valley farm were many people get seasonal and temporary employment the area is...
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Sinosizo Home Based Care Project
Sinosizo Home Based Care is a project of the Catholic Archdiocese of Durban AIDS Care Commission. It is Durban-based and is a non governmental, non-profit organization, which was established in 1995 to respond to the growing need for care of people living with HIV and AIDS, their...
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Sinozwelo Drop-in Centre
Sinozwelo Drop in Centre is a community based project which deals with the HIV/AIDS related matters, the project was started in December 2001 as a part of government strategy through National Integrated Plan (NIP) to address the need of the families that are affected and infected by...
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Sothemba Aids Action
Sothemba is a non profit organisation and has been working in the Aids field since 1993.
Despite of the reality of this pandemic we refuse to be stunned into passitivity by this silent killer. Our motto is and always will be "Get up and Live" and to encourage AIDS terminally ill patients to continue living .
St. Joseph’s Care and Support Trust at Sizanani Village is the only organisation offering comprehensive and holistic HIV/Aids programmes in the Metsweding District. The Metsweding District is characterised by high unemployment rates, poverty and sparsely located settlements which...
Pretoria Sungardens Hospice was established in 1985 born out of a need that existed in the community to take care of terminally ill patients. This particular Hospice serves the Tshwane community and has the main administrative and In-patient unit in Pretoria (corner of Gen. Louis...
The Tapologo Programme, which is based at St Joseph's Mission in Phokeng has formulated and implemented a number of programmes in keeping with the mission statement, some of which date back to the inception of the programme in 1993. We have actively engaged with local Non...
The House of Resurrection Haven, more commonly known as The AIDS Haven is a unique facility serving the Nelson Mandela Metropole where there are believed to be at least 29.5% of the population is HIV positive. Our services are also available to the wider community of the Eastern...
South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV in the world. Of the estimated 5.3 million people with HIV/AIDS, 3.1 million are women. Without access to life-saving treatment and medical care, mothers are dying leaving behind a growing number of orphaned children....
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The Village Safe Haven
The directors are responsible for the maintenance of adequate accounting records and the preparation and integrity of the financial statements and related information. The external accounting officer is responsible for reporting on the fair presentation of financial statements in...
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Themba HIV/AIDS Organisation
Founded in 2002 Themba HIV/ Aids won the Mail and Guardian's Investing in the Future Merit Award in 2006 for most innovative project. Through its interactive theatre performances, Themba targets audiences of young people who are the high-risk group for contracting HIV and gives...
Thembalethu Home Based Care exists to provide support for victims of HIV/Aids and their families. The support takes the form of Home-based care via care-givers employed by Thembalethu. Health care and advice to the community at large, the free provision of vegetable seedlings to the...
Conceptualised and started in 2000, the Topsy Foundation works with the communities in and around the Dipaleseng Town Council in Mpumalanga Province. Activities take place from a central project site, called the Topsy Sanctuary. The Sanctuary has a total of twelve thousand...
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Tshepang Programme for orphans and vulnerable children
The community that we serve is characterised by unemployment, alcohol abuse, deaths, illiteracy and poverty. We encourage children to go to school so that they can have a better future and thus curb the poverty problem that exists within this community. Also by them being in school,...
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Ubomi Trust
'Ibali: living stories' is a freely distributed newspaper, published by Ubomi Trust in which people living with HIV/AIDS share their personal experiences in an interesting, educational and readable way. The true stories, poignantly and dramatically presented in both text and...
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Umdoni and Vulamehlo HIV/AIDS Association
Established in October 2002, the Umdoni and Vulamehlo HIV/AIDS Association (UVHAA) is made up of people concerned about the impact of HIV and AIDS on rural communities in the Umdoni and Vulamehlo local municipalities on the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal. The...
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Umtha Welanga
The Umtha Welanga project uses an indigenous model of community care and support for the escalating numbers of children and their families who are in crisis because of HIV/AIDS in the greater Khayelitsha area in the Western Cape. The project recruits, screens and supports a foster...
Unsung Heroes (UH) was registered as a Non-profit Organisation in January 2001. Unsung Heroes currently supports eight Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in South Africa, in five out of the nine provinces. Three more projects will be adopted in the month of June 2005. We have 11 staff...
Wide Horizon Hospice was established in 1985 by the founder in her garden cottage, from these humble beginings Wide Horizon has grown to the facility that we see today, a modern well equipped In Patient Unit and efficient home care service.
Wisani Community Project Home Based Care (WCP) is a home based care project started in 2000 by members of local Faith Based Organisations due to the high rate of HIV/ Aids in our rural village and surrounding areas. A need was seen to address the increasing HIV/Aids infection rate...
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Wola Nani
It is within the context of South Africa having the largest burden of HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa that Wola Nani works towards its vision of seeing the quality of life of persons living with HIV/Aids improved to an extent that they are living positively, with hope....
Yabonga started with an interest to address the inadequate educational programmes offered to young children in impoverished townships of Cape Town. Training for carers/ teachers at community owned educare centre were offered, followed by educational equipment required to implement...
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Zimbanathi Project
Tembisa is a township under the Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province. Like many communities around the country, it is grappling with issues of poverty and the spread of HIV/ AIDS. Although some of the community members are infected or affected, by HIV/ AIDS there is still a...
South Africa has one of the highest prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS worldwide, with an estimated number of people infected with the virus that varies from 5.5 million to well over 6 million. UNAIDS believes South Africa to be the country with the second highest total of people living with HIV/AIDS.
According to a 2004 study by the National Department of Health, 29.5% of pregnant women were estimated to be HIV-positive, with the highest prevalence rates in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga. The same study in 2005 found that females aged 15–24 years have an eight times higher HIV incidence rate than males and account for 87% of the latest HIV infections for this age group.
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