Addressing HIV/AIDS

Siyabhabha Trust believes that a comprehensive approach to HIV and AIDS, seeks to ensure that all the necessary activities that a community require are in place.

These include

• Awareness raising.
• Prevention through comprehensive behaviour change.
• Voluntary testing and counselling.
• Care and treatment.
• Fighting stigma.
• Advocacy.
• Mitigating against the impact of poverty.

These cannot be undertaken by a single agency but require an integrated response.

Siyabhabha Trust believes in its role in mobilising the resources of the Church to fight the pandemic. Our approach is a human development one, orientated towards vulnerable households affected by HIV/AIDS, which emphasises that both individual and social factors are at work, both in the causes of the infection and its solutions.

Complementary Issues

Siyabhabha Trust focuses on complementary sectors such as ;

• Community development
• Food security
• Water
• Sanitation

Our work focuses on both the physical and psychological sectors.

The physical sector ensures good nutrition (e.g. through homestead gardens) access to alternative indigenous medicinal plants that boost the immune system, good hygiene, adequate safe water provision and good sanitation facilities.

The psychological aspect focuses on supporting community based counselling, support groups and spiritual support.

Siyabhabha Trust does not supply or distribute condoms.