Community Organisations Receive PEPFAR’s HIV/AIDS Community Grants Awards
The successful recipients of the grants were selected after a highly competitive grants process, and they will receive a grant worth about US$42,218 (approximately R600,000) from U.S. PEPFAR over the next one to two years.
Nanga Vhutshilo from Soweto, is one of the 40 community based organisations from all provinces, who were recipients of the HIV/AIDS Community Grants, a program of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (U.S. PEPFAR).
The successful recipients of the grants were selected after a highly competitive grants process, and they will receive a grant worth about US$42,218 (approximately R600,000) from U.S. PEPFAR over the next one to two years.
These organisations which provide a range of services, including HIV testing and counselling, HIV prevention services, and care and support for people living with HIV, were honoured at a ceremony last week in Johannesburg.
Community organizations are essential to South Africa’s continued HIV response, because they understand their communities best and they are often a person’s first point of entry into HIV care and treatment.
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U.S. PEPFAR, through the HIV/AIDS Community Grants program, recognizes the critical role that commu-nity-based organizations must play in our shared efforts with the Government of South Africa, NGOs, and civil society to control the HIV epidemic.
The American people, through U.S. PEPFAR, are committed to ensuring South Africans have the opportuni-ty to live longer, happier, more productive lives, and to preventing new HIV infections. We’re proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with South Africa in the HIV response – U.S. PEPFAR has partnered with the Government of South Africa to support HIV prevention and treatment since 2004 and invested more than $6 billion (over R80 billion) in HIV programs in South Africa.
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