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

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(866) 829-1560
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CAF Zambia

Global Initiatives: Zambia

Since 2003, CAF has worked with Zambian partner organizations to provide HIV care, treatment and services.  In 2007, CAF Zambia was initiated to provide support for local partners and serve as liaison with government and private-sector leaders.

Expanded Church Response to HIV/AIDS Trust (ECR) has been a CAF partner in several projects.  President and founder Bishop Joshua Banda is currently Chairman of the Zambia National AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council.

Program Focus:

1. HIV/AIDS Care & Treatment
 

CAF supports five treatment and care sites in Zambia as part of the AIDSRelief consortium.  Circle of Hope was founded by a group of HIV positive members of the Northmead Assembly of God Church and is located in the Manda Hills area of Lusaka. 

Macha Hospital is a government hospital in rural Choma.  Chreso Ministries, an outreach of Gospel Outreach Fellowship, is operating three treatment sites, one in Lusaka, one in Livingstone and on in Kabwe Prison.
   
2. HIV/AIDS Prevention
 

Through a partnership with Helping Hands Africa, an outreach of the Nazarene Church, CAF supports a prevention program that in 2007 trained more than 300 peer facilitators who reached more than 50,000 youth with messages of abstinence and faithfulness.

CAF also facilitated the prevention outreach of True Love Waits in 2006 and 2007.
   
3. HIV/AIDS Orphan Projects
 

CAF supports a number of orphans through local partners by providing school uniforms, school supplies and tuition, as well as one-time special needs.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAF Global Initiatives

Zambia Facts:

  • Zambia is one of the most urbanized countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with approximately 38% of the population living in urban areas.  Unemployment is high and poverty levels have remained high.
  • Among Zambian women of childbearing age attending antenatal care clinics, HIV prevalence remained high and virtually unchanged between 1994 and 2004.
  • Just 45% of young people ages 15-24 years correctly identify ways of preventing sexual transmission of HIV and reject major misconceptions about HIV transmission.
  • Just 1 in 10 people have been tested for HIV and know their status.
  • Life expectancy at birth for both Zambian men and women is 40 years.
 
   

 

 

 


 

 
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