HIV Combination and Prevention Programmes
Inclusion of People with Disabilities
AFSA has been working with communities and groups of people with disabilities to put the spotlight on the inclusion of people with disabilities (PWD) with the aim to mainstream the inclusion of PWD in all community development efforts and programming.
The programme is implemented in KwaZulu-Natal’s eThekwini and uMgungundlovu districts.
This programme ensures the inclusion of PWD aged 5 - 35 in the 95-95-95 cascade by mobilising them to get tested for HIV, initiating those who tested positive onto ART and retaining them in care to ensure their viral load suppression. The programme also addresses the intersectionality of HIV and economic vulnerability by training PWD aged 16-24 on economic strengthening methods such as entrepreneurship, employability, and access to basic and tertiary education.
This programme also ensures that the community and the caregivers of PWD are involved in all PWD related barriers to find a possible alternatives and support.
Small Projects Support Fund (SPSF)– Bread for the World (BftW)
The SPSF project supports small local initiatives that are made up of committed and dedicated people who may belong to any of these structures: self-help groups, community based organisations (CBO’s), faith based organisations (FBO’s) or smaller non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) or small local networks and their members working within their vicinity and context to improve the lives of the marginalised.
SPSF aims to empower communities to act and participate in their own development through actions that are designed, implemented and owned by the communities themselves.
This programme is currently implemented in Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
