Kitovu Mobile AIDS Home Care Uganda Expand view PO Box 413 Masaka Organisational aims: to provide medical, counselling and social support to AIDS patients in their homes; to help families of patients cope through counselling; to provide HIV proactive health education; to provide HIV testing; to provide orphan and family support through education FARM schools and income generating projects
National AIDS Coordination Programme (NACP) Zimbabwe Expand view 2nd floor, Mukwati Building PO Box CY1122 Causeway, Harare NACP id responsible for coordinating the national multisectorial response to HIV/AIDS and TB in Zimbabwe. It is also responsible for coordinating the specific health sector response to HIV/AIDS with special focus on treatment and care, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, counselling and testing, condom promotion and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. The NACP resource centre is open to the public
AIDS Counselling Trust (ACT) Zimbabwe Expand view PO Box 7225 Harare ACTs aim: To complement government efforts in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and also provide psycho-social support to the infected and affected. ACTSs objectives: Train a wide range of people in counselling, including potential care givers and those in contact with persons living with HIV/AIDS. Provide over the phone and face to face counselling . Identify, mobilise suitable resourse persons in the community who will facilitate the work of ACT. Develop, distribute and use appropriate materials, courses and other resources for the dissemination of informatnion on HIV/AIDS in order to influence behavioural change. The ACT resource centre is open to the public
German Development Cooperation Health Systems Research GTZ-HSR Zimbabwe Expand view PO Box 2406 Highlands Harare The programme has the overall objective to improve reproductive health services and facilitate health care reforms in the Southern African Region through health systems research, within the different countries themselves as well as at an inter-country level. Through this regional approach, it will contribute to the strengthening of communication and collaboration between neighbouring countries (South-South co-operation). Special emphasis is laid on practical, decentralised research, which can be directly translated into action. Resource Centre onpen to the public http://users.harare.iafrica.com/~gtz-hsr/gtz-hsr.htm
St Francis Hospital Zambia Expand view Private Bag 11 Katete This is a district general hospital, supplying first level services to a catchment population of 200 000, and second level surgical services to a population of 1 million. There is a nursing and midwifery training school, and it also acts as a training hospital for medical students, both local and abroad. The resource centre is not open to the public
Walio Katika Mapambano na AIDS Tanzania (WAMATA) Tanzania Expand view PO Box 33279 Dar es Salaam WAMATA deals with HIV transmission. AIms include: the reduction of social, pathological, psychological, legal and humnan rights problems for people living with HIV/AIDS; An increase in the institutions capacity in counselling and home based care services; Institutional support; Monitoring and evaluation of performance facilities with WAMATA branches. The WMATA resource centre is open to the public
World Vision Uganda (WVU) Uganda Expand view PO Box 5319 Kampala This is a Christian, development and child care agency. It believes that all development is integral to improving the well-being of children. Its aims are to contribute to the reduction of infant and maternal mortality rates through community-based programmes and empowerment of the beneficiaries; to improve water and sanitation; to increase education rates; to improve agriculture and the environment and to assist in the development of midro-enterprises. It s resource centre is not open to the public, but it is planned that in the future it will be http://www.wvi.org
Community Based Rehabilitation Programme-Kisumu (CBR-K) Kenya Expand view PO Box 486 Kisumu Aims to address the plight of people witrh disabilities in the community by helping them to maximise their abilities; remove/minimise the stigma associated with disability through education/knowledge about disability and training; and train the disabled for self-help projects and income generation, therefore helping them to decrease the effects of their disability and enhance their integration into mainstream society
Society for the Welfare of the Deaf (SWD) Mauritius Expand view Rue Pope Hennessy Beau-Bassin Aims to train and educate all deaf people in the Mauritius; to assist them in obtaining medical treatment and suitable employment; to grant them any material relief which they might need; and to erect, open and manage training centres, schools and hostels. The Resource Centre is not open to the public
Tanzania Council for Social Development (TACOSODE) Tanzania Expand view P O Box 63196 Dar Es Salaam Its goals are networking and partnership, capacity building, advocacy and lobbying, fundraising, and project planning and management. Its resource centre is open to the public
Developing Countries Health Radio Network Ghana Expand view HP667 Ho Volta Region Aims to provide primary medical care in conjunction with epidemic prevention services to youth, mothers, the elderly and children under five; to identify health service delivery problems through situation analysis studies and other diagnostic approaches and disseminating such information nationwide; and to train community health workers to take primary health care to rural communities. Its resource centre is not open to the public
Youth Development Foundation (YDF) Ghana Expand view PO Box 4941 Kumasi YDF was started by young people at the University of Ghana. It is aimed at young people between the ages of 10 and 24, especially out of school children and street youth in urban and rural areas. It works in the area of population, family life and reproductive health, environmental issues and skills training. It has 11 projects in West Africa, setting up youth centres in rural areas particulary aimed at out of school youth and providing reproductive health information. The resource centre is open to the public.
Mozambique Red Cross Mozambique Expand view PO Bix 2986 Maputo The Mozambique Red Cross' objective for the next three years is to strengthen the capacity of the host vulneranable members of the population by supporting their development, particularly in protecting their health and improving their social conditions. In order to achieve this objective, the MRCS must first of all strengthen itself, becoming a national association that is capable, strong and independent http://www.recross.org.mz
Ye-Alem Birhan Integrated Development Association (Ye-ABIDA) Ethiopia Expand view PO Box 120172 Ye-ABIDA aim to alleviate poverty through an integrated intervention project thereby reducing vulnerability to natural and man-made claamities
Matabeleland AIDS Council (MAC) Zimbabwe Expand view PO Box 1280 Bulawayo MAC provide public education and research on HIV prevention and care. They run a youth programme and workplace programme, counselling, information, training and prevention. Their two resource centres are in `high density housing' areas of Bulawayo. They are open to the public. Actual Address: 97a Josiah Tongagara St.
