August's featured online dialogue focused on HIV/AIDS Prevention. The New Tactics project decided to keep the momentum going from the International HIV/AIDS Conference held in Mexico City this month, by hosting this important dialogue on HIV/AIDS Prevention tactics. It's not too late to join our dialogue practitioners working in this field and share your experiences, challenges, successes and questions as well as gain ideas and tools to apply to your efforts.
Our featured resoure practitioners include:
- Sarah Kalloch of the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) (USA)
- Dr. Syed Asif Altaf of the International Transport Workers Federation
- Nathalie Applewhite of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Jamaica and Haiti)
- Pablo Frisch of Intercambios Asociación Civil (Argentina)
- Lorraine Teel and others of the Minnesota AIDS Project (USA)
- Lucrecia Jose Wamba of the Southern Africa AIDS Trust (SAT) (Mozambique)
Click here for biographical information on this month's featured resource practitioners.
Please add your comments, experiences, successes, challenges, and questions below under the 7 main themes:
- Introduction: HIV Prevention and Human Rights
- Community capacity-building, outreach, and education
- Raising awareness
- Treatment, care and support
- Social research on HIV/AIDS
- Advocacy
- Measuring Impact
Capacity Strengthening of CBOs?NGOs
we believe that communities have potential to tackle HIV and AIDS. this potential can be seen in the areas of mutual support and solidarity amongst community members. along the history communities had come up with strategies to respond to many challenges. wht happens with HIV and AIDS is the fact that this epidemic is affecting all the community structures severely. but the potential is still there. is based on this belief that SAT works with communities to assure an effective response. how do we do this?
any given community at the moment is responding to the challenges posed by AIDS using local resources and strenghts. in general, what is missing to turn that response into an effective one are resources, knowledge, community mobilisation, exchange and networking. that's where SAT comes in- providing the additional tools that will boost what the communities are already doing. how?
- sub- granting
- SWW model- for exchange of lessons and training for CBOs/NGOs operating in the communities
- Action research for learning proposes and documentation of best practices
- Communications and Publicacoes
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Advocacy and lobby to influence policies
- Strategic partnerships
Currently we are supporting 25 partner organisations in Mozambique. our partners have a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS- prevention, care, support, impact mitigation, treatment and advocacy.
we work with communities trough CBOs/NGOs. we target emerging CBOs/NGOs that have the potential to work as the bonding factor for the communities. the major challenges are as follows:
- other resource providers dont provide funding for administration costs which increases the burden on SAT
- partner organisations struggle to acess government funds, such as from the National AIDS Authority (due to stringent policies)
- this kind of partnerhsip requires constant monitoring and provision of technical support
in general, the challenges we face are basically within our scope of operations.
Click here to download a document that contains several articles about SAT's work published by the Canadian Public Health Journal.
Lucrecia Wamba
Country Programme Manager
Southern African AIDS Trust (SAT) Mozambique