Fight HIV/AIDS by Empowering Women in South Africa

Summary

Support, counseling, education and income-generating opportunities to help poor women with HIV/AIDS overcome such issues as stigma and lack of access to resources and treatment. progress report read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of £11,453 was raised for this project.

Received £11,453 from 173 donations from people around the world like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

South Africa has the highest number of women infected with HIV/AIDS in the world. Stigma and discrimination against them, lack of knowledge about accessing treatment, and deep poverty have left these women in a precarious position. But there is hope. And it begins with the women. And you. Through a network of support groups that empower and educate these women, they are able to take matters into their own hands to access treatment, live healthier lives, and support themselves and their children

Activities

Positive Women’s Network provides HIV-positive women with women-led support groups to address stigma; grief counseling; workshops on treatment literacy, reproductive health and nutrition; and opportunities for income-generating projects like weaving.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £11,453

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled £11,453. The original project funding goal was £9,433.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

PWN operates a “train-the-trainers program” where women are trained to form new support groups- a huge multiplier effect in numbers of women reached. Thousands of women will continue to manage HIV while learning skills to support their families.

Project Message

“Being involved with Positive Women’s Network, I’m a stronger person and with my strength I hope to lead other women who are HIV-positive to be strong as well.”
- Gladys Nikelo, Outreach Coordinator, Positive Women’s Network

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Gillian Wilson,
IDEX Latin America Program Director
IDEX
827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
415-824-8384
Email:

Project Sponsor

IDEX (International Development Exchange)

Organisation

Positive Women's Network (PWN)
c/o IDEX 827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94110
South Africa
415-824-8384
http://www.idex.org/partner.php?partner_id=24

Learn more about Positive Women's Network (PWN) and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Health.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 04, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 15, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Final Report From PWN

By Gillian Wilson - Communications Director, August 04, 2010 11:54 AM

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to this project. It is now fully funded!

We also have some very exciting news. On July 12, the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) honored Positive Women’s Network (PWN) with a Red Ribbon award in recognition of PWN’s outstanding community leadership and action on AIDS.

Out of 720 nominations received by the UNDP from more than 100 countries, the 25 winners were judged to have demonstrated “the most remarkable efforts in terms of innovation, impact, sustainability, strategic partnerships, gender sensitivity and social inclusion.”

Founded in 1996 by Prudence Mabele, PWN operates in townships outside of Johannesburg to provide support to HIV-positive women and to raise awareness within the greater community. To combat the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, PWN encourages HIV-positive women to “come out” about their HIV status and form support groups to address discrimination.

PWN also provides resources about how to access treatment and Anti-Retroviral drugs, outreach on accurate HIV/AIDS information and strategies for supporting orphaned and vulnerable children.

Prudence is now in Vienna on behalf of PWN to participate in the XVIII International AIDS conference, where she will be honored at a formal awards ceremony. She and her fellow award winners will also host a forum for dialogue and exchange between community representatives and policy makers.

We are delighted that the UNDP has honored PWN with this prestigious award and extend a thank you to all of our donors who have helped support PWN’s commitment to AIDS awareness.

To learn more about how PWN helps women in South Africa, please see our focus story on Gladys Nikelo, a member of PWN.

However PWN’s work continues so we have created a new project for you to support – here http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/fight-hiv-aids-in-south-africa, project ID #6005.

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