AIDS

FOR PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS

• Encouraging home-based care programs and training additional community health care workers to provide regular support to those in need.

• Facilitating access to clinics, antiretroviral drugs, and other treatments.

• Providing start-up money for small business programs so that families have funds to pay for medications as well as basic needs.

FOR CAREGIVERS

• Training caregivers how to effectively offer support and care to people living with HIV/AIDS.

• Offering loans to groups of people (e.g. widows) so they can collectively own oxen and a plough to greatly increase the amount of land under production.

FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH-AT-RISK

• Promoting HIV/AIDS education and values formation in schools.

• Giving teen-aged heads of households vocational training.

• Doing training for youth at risk through lessons, stories, songs, and skits

• Decreasing malnutrition in children less than five years through growth monitoring, education for parents, and better access to food.

• Enabling orphans and vulnerable children to cover the costs of going to school.

FOR THE COMMUNITY

• Engaging community members in awareness exercises and discussion groups to break down stigma and misunderstandings associated with HIV/AIDS

• Supplying food and seeds to HIV/AIDS communities affected by drought and other disasters.

• Providing families with improved nutrition through more productive agriculture.

• Including HIV/AIDS education in materials used in adult literacy classes.

• Providing immediate relief assistance to communities affected by both drought and HIV/AIDS.

FOR CHURCHES

• Bringing church leaders together for training and education in the following areas: prevention, care and support, pastoral care, counseling, treatment, leadership, and advocacy.

• Training partner staff in how to incorporate HIV/AIDS interventions into all their core programs.

• Providing education to reduce the stigma of HIV/AIDS and training in ways to care for the community as Christians.