CAF: Global Initiatives

Children's AIDS Fund
P.O. Box 16433
Washington DC 20041

Toll-free:
(866) 829-1560
(800) 557-8529 FAX

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.

Program Focus:

1.	HIV/AIDS Care & Treatment
	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).

2.	HIV/AIDS Prevention
3.	HIV/AIDS Orphan Projects
	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.

CAF Global Initiatives

South Africa Facts:

Females in younger age groups are 4 times more likely to be HIV infected than males.
AIDS-related death rates are rising, with mortality among females ages 20-39 years more than tripling between 1997 and 2004.
Between 1997 and 2004 deaths due to AIDS-related conditions, such as tuberculosis, in the age group 25-29 years have increased six fold among females and tripled among males.
The outbreak of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis complicates the nation’s response to HIV/AIDS.
Life expectancy at birth for South African men is 47 years and women is 49 years.

Children's AIDS Fund

P.O. Box 16433

Washington D.C. 20041