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Contact name: Ms Denise Hunt (Executive Director)
Tel: 011 403 0265
Fax: 011 403 2106
Mobile: 082 523 4701
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Website: www.aidsconsortium.org.za
Address: Auckland House, East Wing, 4th Floor, 185 Smit St, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2001

The AIDS Consortium was established as a project of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992. It is a membership-based organisation consisting of over 1 000 service organisations and individuals working to address the epidemic in South Africa. Most of the members are community-based organisations. The provincial distribution of their membership is as follows: Gauteng 687; Limpopo 136; KwaZulu-Natal 42; Eastern Cape 32; North West 31; Mpumalanga 30; Free State 29 and Northern Cape 15. They also have 45 international member organisations.

The main objectives of the AIDS Consortium are as follows:

  •  To promote a non-discriminatory response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, ensuring that people’s basic human rights, as outlined in the South African Constitution, are protected. This includes advocacy programmes to protect the rights of women, children, minority groups and refugees
  •  To help build the organisational capacity and effectiveness of the affiliate (member) organisations. A capacity development toolkit, that is available to the public, has been developed by the Consortium
  •  To provide workshops, training programmes, and mentoring and support services to NPOs working with the epidemic at a community level. The Consortium provides a variety of training programmes from one-day workshops to much longer programmes providing SAQA-accredited qualifications in organisational management. Mentoring and support services continue after the training
  •  To provide user-friendly information and resources. This includes the provision of an Internet Café, a library, an information distribution centre, a database of NPOs and other service organisations, and an open forum to enable service providers to interact and share information
  •  To promote practical networks between NPOs and other institutions and businesses that are working to help address the HIV and AIDS epidemic
  •  To provide a referral service for institutions and individuals with queries regarding HIV and AIDS
  •  To work with and monitor government at all levels so as to improve the services for people affected and infected by HIV and AIDS


Examples of workshop programmes offered at community stations throughout Gauteng and Limpopo province:

  •  Income generation - teaching skills such as food gardening and various crafts that can provide an income
  •  Basic capacity-building - instruction on basic financial accounting, administration, fundraising, governance, report writing, presentations and NPO registration
  •  Social Grants - information on knowing your rights, lost certification, procedures for applications and problem solving
  •  Living with AIDS - treatment access and support,  wellness, social grants and medical schemes


For more information on training programmes and resource material go to their website or contact the AIDS Consortium directly.