STATEMENT
24 June 2009
PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS DEMAND A VOICE IN THE CONSTITUTION MAKING PROCESS
The National HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Law Advocacy Roundtable, which is ..... read more
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