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CAF collaborates with a large number of service organizations and government leaders in South Africa that provide a broad range of services and support. CAF’s program partners are primarily located and serving the Eastern Cape Province, an area of the country which is largely rural with limited resources, yet a growing HIV problem.
CAF Programs and Partners in South Africa
Through a partnership with the Institute for Youth Development South Africa (IYDSA), CAF supports five treatment and care sites that are part of the AIDSRelief consortium and are located in East London, Stutterheim, Port Elizabeth, Hamburg and Great Kei.
IYDSA staff provide treatment and care at all sites, training for local service organizations who provide local adherence monitoring, and ongoing support for local community outreach services.
IYDSA also partners with the Eastern Cape provincial government to access increasingly available medications and laboratory support to complement the program funded under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Sophumelela, Inc., an HIV outreach of First City Baptist Church in East London, is CAF’s partner in prevention and orphan projects. The organization opened the first clinic supported through the CAF/IYDSA treatment and care partnership, runs a day-care center for children of clinic patients, and income-generating projects to benefit patients and their children. The outreach will be opening a satellite site in 2008 in partnership with another church to expand services to particularly underserved populations.
Additional projects initiated through these partnerships include nutrition support through food plots. CAF has also facilitated technical assistance and support for local HIV/AIDS organizations through Barnabas Trust.