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AAVP works to facilitate the ethical conduct of HIV vaccine trials in selected African countries proximal to running trials.

The AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit is a collaboration between the CSA and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.

The Unit promotes and supports research on issues arising from the intersection of HIV and AIDS, on one hand, and human rights on the other.

The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a human rights organisation that seeks to influence, develop and use the law to address the human rights implications of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, regionally and internationally.

The focus of the AIDS Law Unit is on the infringement of civil and political rights on the basis of HIV status, and the denial of socio-economic rights which both increases vulnerability to HIV and impacts negatively on health outcomes.

Discrimination and other HIV and AIDS rights issues are addressed on a number of levels and by various means, including policy formulation and research for law reform, litigation, advocacy, education and training, networking, publishing and provision of basic client services of such as legal advice and referral.

The ALN is committed to the promotion, protection and realisation of fundamental rights and freedoms of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS through capacity building, education and training, research, networking, campaign, lobbying and advocacy activities.

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MULEIDE is a non-governmental organization founded in December 1991 with the basic objective of improving the status of women in Mozambique. The founders were particularly concerned that women not lose the gains they made during the independence struggle.

Children’s Dignity Forum is not for profit sharing, a Civil Society striving to contribute to the endeavours to analyse African families’ relationships in conjunction with children’s legal and human rights and put the matter on the public agenda; creating working forum to empower children, the families and the society in general, promote and reinforce children’s rights.

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The Coalition of Women living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi (COWLHA) is a grassroots organization based in Lilongwe and active in every district of Malawi. Working with a wide range of partners, COWLHA’s members bring the issues of women living with HIV to the national stage, while providing them with support. Over 50,000 members-strong after two years of operation, COWLHA provides a space for women to meet with leaders, receive microfinance support, and advocate for their needs. COWLHA holds anti stigma and discrimination workshops, campaigns on violence against women, and provides support to children orphaned by AIDS. The coalition’s activities have encouraged thousands of women to be open about their status and to seek HIV testing and counseling, antiretroviral treatment, mother to child transmission prevention, and nutritional support.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! provides reliable, scientifically based information to people living with HIV/AIDS, our partners, family, friends, care-givers and health workers. The project is intended to enable our audiences, whatever their status, to respond positively to the impact of the epidemic in their lives. Siyayinqoba Beat It! uses the television and video medium to overcome the language and literacy barriers to understanding HIV/AIDS information.

DPE is based in Lesotho and works with rural communities, people living with HIV, chiefs and local government on two main programmes:

The programme for Community Organisation and Empowerment capacitates community based groups including HIV/AIDS support groups to run their affairs effectively, develop peaceful conflict management and link up with relevant agencies.

The programme for Economic Justice and Policy Dialogue helps communities to participate in policy debate and legislative processes. HIV/AIDS is mainstreamed and DPE deals with the issue from a human rights and policy perspective.

DPE uses community voices to inform the national and international agenda through its Public Participation Strategy that comprises Community Parliament, Community Voting, Community training and Dialogue and the People's Tribunal.

We envision a drug free Mauritius

Friends of RAINKA promote public health awareness and gives voice and visibility to the community by creating a safe and enabling environment. The organisation is currently conducting counselling and safe sex practice education. Target groups are sexual minorities in Zambia. Friends of RAINKA link to organisations in the region and internationally.

The organisation exists to promote the grassroots health and development through advocacy, provision of essential health and development services, community empowerment, research and co-ordination with empathy, transparency and accountability.

To be a leading organization in transforming the socio-economic and political status of Malawian women and girls with a view to narrowing the gender inequalities in all sectors of the economy using rights-based approaches through advocacy and lobbying, capacity building, public education and awareness raising.

NZPW+ targets HIV positive women and girls and is engaged in the following main activities:

Awareness raising, advocacy and lobbying for the rights of women and children living with HIV;

HIV & AIDS treatment literacy and advocacy;

Literacy on co-infections such as TB and HPV affecting HIV positive women;

Sharing (with members and partners) information of value on events and issues occurring nationally, regionally and internationally

Sexual and reproductive health and rights information sharing, lobby and advocacy;

Monitoring of access to comprehensive/ holistic health care services for women and children;

Lobby and advocacy for access to essential medicines and health care services;

Amplifying and mobilising collective organising power of women towards justice for all HIV positive women and girls;

Lobby and advocacy for women’s access to basics such as safe water, adequate nutrition, and clean energy fuel;

Networking with other organisations nationally, regionally, and internationally.

PSI/Swaziland deploys social marketing strategies to promote optimal health of the Swazi Nation through evidence based behaviour change interventions that maximise the quality of life.

PILS, Prevention Information and Fight against AIDS is an NGO founded in 1996. Originally the creation of this association has a damning conclusion: while the HIV / AIDS is a global one, nothing in Mauritius has been established to meet the threat posed by HIV / AIDS and no structure in Mauritius was helping people with HIV.

Today, the association PILS is a major player in the fight against AIDS in Mauritius and in several areas.

To promote health through the fight against HIV/AIDS among vulnerable populations of Madagascar

SAfAIDS promotes ethical and effective development responses to the epidemic and its impact through HIV knowledge management, capacity development, advocacy, policy analysis and research with special regard to gender, human rights, and other development concerns

BONELA - the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS - is on a mission to create an enabling and just environment for those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

BONELA’s activities are aimed at ensuring that ethics, the law and human rights are made an essential part of the national response to fighting this pandemic in Botswana, which has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV prevalence.

We strive to fight HIV-related stigma and discrimination and to promote respect for humanity.

he Zambia AIDSLaw Research and Advocacy Network (ZARAN) is a non profit making development organisation which exists to champion the rights of people living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS in Zambia.

ZARAN’s main areas of operation are:
- Law and policy development
- Provision of legal services
- Advocacy and research
- Education and information provision

ZANARELA+ is a Zambian Chapter of the African Network of Religious leaders living with or personally affected by HIV and AIDS (ANARELA+).

ZANARELA+ is an interfaith based organisation which endeavours to empower and support religious leaders living with or personally affected by HIV and AIDS to live a meaningful and productive life through capacity building, advocacy, networking and upscaling Congregational HIV/AIDS programmes.

To protect and defend human rights through a sustainable program of strategic litigation, education and the strengthening of participation and collaboration by key stakeholders to influence a culture of tolerance and democracy in Zimbabwe.