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Directory of Organisations

Featuring over 1000 NPOs, health facilities
and other organisations offering support and
treatment to people throughout South Africa
who are affected or infected by HIV and AIDS.

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Khazimula Champions

In a scenario that will be increasingly repeated all over the country, as the number of orphans and vulnerable children escalates, the centre of Howick in KwaZulu-Natal became the operating ground of a pack of wayward st...

Mama Albina Maleka, Helping Hand...

Mama Albina Maleka is 64 years old, an age when most people think of retiring. After working for 40 years as a nurse, Ma Albina had certainly earned her right to a relaxing and peaceful retirement. But this resourc...

Mama Lumka

Mama Lumka was referred to as the ‘Wheelbarrow Saint’ when she started collecting, each weekday morning, all the disabled babies and children in her township area in a wheelbarrow. She would then carefully wheel ...

Beading mothers weaving positive lives…

Kate Gray and a team of HIV-positive beading mothers were recently commissioned to design and make a beaded South African flag to sit in the head of a walking stick for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday present. The inlai...

Women of The heartfelt Project

Creating employment, empowering women and giving hope to a community is the aim of The heartfelt Project in Makapanstad. The heartfelt story has a sad beginning: the death in prison of Emmanuel, wrongly accused 26 year...

Eight-year old Zolani living positively with HIV

Zolani (not his real name) likes nothing better than to play with his friends and eat amasi. When he first started antiretroviral treatment though he felt far too sick to eat, but now things are much better. No-one h...

The Dedicated Topsy Foundation Staff

The Topsy Foundation has a vision of flourishing rural communities where people have the tools for change and where young people, in particular, are productive members of society, in spite of the impact of HIV and AIDS...

Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS

(GAPA) – a diverse group of elderly but formidable champions. This organisation was started by a group of feisty grandmothers from Khayelitsha in Cape Town. All of the founding grandmothers had been affected by the H...

Catherine Makhubedu

Catherine Makhubedu, along with seven other inspirational women in South Africa, won a Soul City award in 2003 for helping to make a significant difference to the lives and futures of AIDS-affected children in their coun...

Dr Mitchell Besser and Ms Pat Qolo

Imagine being told that you are not only pregnant but HIV-positive as well. For the hundreds of thousands of South African women who have received this news, there has been little support from overworked clinic staff, an...

International Volunteers

Many volunteers come from overseas to help non-profit organisations in South Africa. Lean on Me in Durban places oversees volunteers in a number of different projects that are dedicated to helping relieve the plight of...

The Group of Hope

The Group of Hope consists of 20 maximum security prisoners at Brandvlei prison in Worcester who have given hope to 20 AIDS orphans by ‘adopting’ them. The children are brought regularly to the prison where they receiv...

Dr. Margaret Hardman

Dr Margaret Hardman and her husband Harry started the AIDS Care Training and Support (ACTS) Community Clinic in White River, which provides comprehensive medical care and support for thousands of people living with HIV a...

Sister Priscilla Dlamini

Sister Pricilla Dlamini started the Holy Cross Hospice in Emoyeni, KwaZulu-Natal in 2000, which today looks after 40 in-patients, 200 AIDS patients in their homes and over 1 300 orphans in the community.

Mrs Joan Adams

Mrs Joan Adams started the Morning Star Children’s Centre in Welkom for HIV-positive children. The organisation now looks after over 110 children in Welkom and Kutlwanong, as well as providing extensive support for the...

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Welcome to AIDSbuzz

AIDSbuzz salutes the many individuals and organisations

that are involved in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

AIDSbuzz hopes to increase the capacity of non-profit organisations (NPOs) by providing information on how to access resources and achieve goals, as well as encourage greater networking between such organisations, government departments and concerned individuals and businesses wishing to help.

AIDSbuzz is a collaboration between Investec and Metropolitan, who are committed to providing a space on the worldwide web to help support everyone who is making a positive difference to the lives of people affected and infected by HIV and AIDS throughout South Africa.

FEATURES:

NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF ORGANISATIONS
This is a detailed directory of well over 1 000 NPOs and health facilities offering care, support and treatment for communities, families and individuals affected by the HIV epidemic.
Quick Links: Find an Organisation

MOBILE DIRECTORY OF ORGANISATIONS
SMS the word AIDS followed by the name of a suburb or town and the type of activity to 33110. The activity categories include: Advocacy, ART, Counselling, Education, Food, HBC, OVC, Hospice, Income, Grants, +Mothers, Research, Training and VCT (click here for more details). The names and telephone numbers of several appropriate organisations will be sent back. This request is not case or sequence sensitive; AIDS Soweto OVC or aids soweto ovc, will both work, as will AIDS OVC Soweto. The toll-free national AIDS helpline number, 0800-012-322, will be sent if no information is available. The cost of each SMS is R1.50.

TRAINING
Featuring organisations specialising in different types of training courses in all aspects of HIV and AIDS management.
Quick Links: Ancillary Health Care Counselling Skills Diploma and Postgraduate Courses General courses in HIV and AIDS Home-Based Care Treatment Literacy

FUNDING
Providing advice on how to access and maintain funding, including writing funding proposals and donor reports. Information on corporate and other types of donors and government funding is also provided.
Quick Links: Fundraising Funding Proposals Writing Reports Donors Government Funding

BUILDING STRONG ORGANISATIONS
Providing information on how to run an effective NPO (registration, tax, reporting, publicity) and large umbrella HIV and AIDS organisations that are helping to improve the capacity of NPOs working in this field.
Quick Links: Getting Started Umbrella Organisations

HOW TO HELP
Providing information on ways people can help either as private individuals or through an employee-supported volunteering programme.
Quick Links: What is Needed How to Use Volunteers Volunteer Organisatinons Employee Volunteering

SOCIAL GRANTS
Providing information on the government grants that are available and answers to frequently asked questions.
Quick Links: Child Support Grant Care Dependency Grant Foster Care Grant Disability Grant FAQs

TREATMENT
Providing comprehensive information on voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), antiretroviral treatment (ART), ART rollout, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), nutritional support for HIV and traditional medicines.
Quick Links: VCT ART ART Rollout PMTCT PEP Nutritional Support Traditional Medicine

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