Who are we?

Established in 2002, the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) is a regional partnership of non-governmental organisations working together to promote a human rights approach to HIV/AIDS and TB in Southern Africa through capacity building and advocacy. It is constituted in the form of a trust and all partner organisations are members of the trust. Three steering committees, comprising trust members, act as advisory boards for the three ARASA programme areas: training and awareness raising, advocacy and lobbying and regional treatment literacy and advocacy.

Current partners are:

• Adventist Relief Agency (ADRA), Lesotho
• Action SIDA, Comoros
• AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• AIDS Law Project, South Africa
• AIDS Law Unit of the Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia
• AIDS Legal Network, South Africa
• African AIDS Vaccine Programme's (AAVP) Co-ordinating and Resource Facility on Ethics, Law and Human Rights (ELH), South Africa
• Association for Help of Development (PFUNANI)
  
• Associacao Kindlimuka, Mozambique
• Associacao Muhler, Lei e Desenvovimento (MULEIDE), Mozambique
• Associacao de Reintegracao dos Jovens, Criancas na Vida Social (SCARJOV), Angola
• Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), Botswana
• Children Education Society(CHESO), Tanzania
• Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Malawi
• Community Health Media Trust, South Africa
• Dr Idrice Goomany Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, Mauritius
• Grassroots Movement for Health and Development, Malawi
• HIV/AIDS Support Organisation (HASO), Seychelles
• Human Rights Development Initiative, South Africa
• Lawyers for Human Rights, Zimbabwe
• Lesotho Network of PLWA (LENEPWA), Lesotho
• Lironga Eparu, National Association of PLWA, Namibia
• Mozambican Treatment Access Movement (MATRAM), Mozambique
• National Women's Lobby and Rights Group, Malawi
• Population Services International, Swaziland
• Protection Enfants SIDA, DRC
• Phelisanang Bophelong, Lesotho
• PILS, Mauritius
• Population services International Swaziland (PSI), Swaziland
• Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA), Zambia
• Research on Equity and Community Health (REACH) Trust, Malawi
• SADC Parliamentary Forum (HIV/AIDS Programme, Regional
• SAMBATRA IZAY SALAMA (SISAL), MAdagascar
• Southern African HIVand AIDS Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS), Regional
• Southern African Human Rights NGO Network (SAHRiNGTON), Tanzania
• Southern African Treatment Access Movement (SATAMO), Regional
• Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South Africa
• Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign (TALC), Zambia
• Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA) Swaziland
• Zambia AIDS Law Research And Advocacy Network (ZARAN), Zambia
• Zambian Network of Religious Leaders Living with HIV/AIDS (ZANARELA+), Zambia