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Communities play a central role in proactive and
interactive responses to the HIV and AIDS
epidemic. They are uniquely close to the
everyday lives, issues and struggles of the
individuals in them. The ability of communities
to interact with HIV and AIDS issues, and to
mainstream these within their priorities and
activities, is of crucial importance to southern
Africa’s development.
The Southern African AIDS Trust’s niche lies in
strengthening community HIV and AIDS competence.
SAT is an intermediary organization working to
enhance the competence that allows communities
to respond effectively and sustainably to the
HIV and AIDS epidemic and its consequences. SAT
takes direction from communities in such a way
that it support their voices to advocate for
community-friendly resources and policies.
Sat is an independent regional NGO that
support community responses to HIV and AIDS
through in-depth partnerships with community
groups in southern Africa.
This is received through partnerships,
grant-making and management, and wider
networking, skills exchange and lesson-sharing
throughout the region and internationally. SAT’s
overall goal is to build the HIV and AIDS
competence of communities to create more
effective, sustainable and comprehensive
community responses. To date, SAT has supported
over 250 partners in southern
Africa.
SAT funding and skills-building
activities support the capacity building of
partners and their programming in areas such as
prevention, care treatment and support,
advocacy, information exchange and networking.
Since late 2006, SAT has been funded through a
Joint Financing Arrangement (JFA) with the
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
the Royal Netherlands Embassy (RNE) and the
Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (Sida)
The SAT Regional
Secretariat is located in
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
We also have decentralised offices in
Lilongwe
in Malawi, Maputo in Mozambique,
Dar es Salaam in
Tanzania,
Lusaka in Zambia,
and Harare in Zimbabwe.
Supporting community responses to
HIV and AIDS in southern
Africa
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