Fight HIV/AIDS and Build Lives in South Africa

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Fight HIV/AIDS and Build Lives in South Africa

Summary

Women contract HIV/AIDS, because of factors like child marriage, wife inheritance, poverty, and ignorance. Support, counseling, and education help women overcome such issues to access resources and im read updates from the field

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	$20 - 1 HIV-positive woman can receive business training to initiate a small business to support herself
	$40 - 2 women will learn how to correctly take their medication, giving them longer and healthier lives
	$80 - 45 women can receive information and support on issues such as prevention, treatment & counseling
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

South Africa has the highest HIV prevalence in the world. Stigma, lack of knowledge about accessing treatment, and gender inequity has left positive women in a precarious position. Of the five million people living with HIV in South Africa, around 60% are women. The first step in turning the AIDS crisis around is to educate and empower women in the townships and rural areas through a network of support groups and treatment access.

Activities

Positive Women’s Network provides for HIV-positive women by creating support groups in townships; providing counseling; conducting workshops on treatment literacy, reproductive health and nutrition; and creating income generating projects for women.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $7,379
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,675
Total Funding Goal: $18,054

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

PWN currently manages 15 support groups. Due to their success, urban and rural communities want to start their own groups. Because of PWN, hundreds of women accessed treatment and manage their HIV while learning skills to support their families.

Project Message

“We will go anywhere, we will do anything to survive…and we fight for anti-retro viral drugs because we have seen the drugs change people’s lives”
- Prudence Mabele, Director, Positive Women’s Network

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Yael Falicov,
Director of Programs, IDEX
IDEX
827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
415-824-8384
Email:

Project Sponsor

International Development Exchange (IDEX)

Organization

Positive Women’s Network (PWN)
c/o IDEX
827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94110
South Africa
415-824-8384
http://www.idex.org/partner.php?partner_id=24

Learn more about Positive Women’s Network (PWN) and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Health.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 09, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 15, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

December 2008 Update

By Katherine Zavala - Coordinator of Programs, December 09, 2008 03:26 PM

The South African Departments of Health and Social Welfare have recognized PWN as an important partner due to its outstanding service delivery to women infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

PWN is also filling crucial holes created by the AIDS epidemic. They recently partnered with the South Africa Department of Home Affairs to enable access to identity cards and birth certificates for children whose mothers were PWN members and passed away before preparing these documents for their children. This identification is critical to the success of the child: orphaned children must have documents to receive grants to eat and to continue with schooling.

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