Factsheet, Publications | 20 Jul 2018
Rape and sexual abuse is an ongoing crisis in our communities. South Africa has one of the highest rates of reported rape in the world. The high levels of poverty and a huge gap between rich and poor in our country means that rape survivors get very different kinds of support, depending on what community they live in and which police station they report the rape to. Through sexual offences courts, the court system needs to support victims of crime, while ensuring that criminals are brought to justice. Rape survivors who testify in sexual offences courts must receive support when they testify in order to reduce secondary…
News, Publications | 20 Jul 2018
NACOSA has produced a leaflet to provide information and advice to people who have had an HIV test. The leaflet is specifically aimed at people who are most vulnerable to HIV such as sex workers, survivors of gender based violence and young women and girls. Download now: I tested HIV positive. Now what? I tested HIV negative. Now what?
Tags: HIV Testing Services
Publications | 4 Jul 2018
NACOSA has developed a new set of information materials for people experiencing gender based violence focusing on health and understanding risks. A large poster and accompanying postcards are a resource for organizations who work with survivors of GBV and IPV and cover issues such as HIV risk, adherence, PEP, intimate partner violence, TB and sexual and reproductive health. Poster > Postcards > All sub-recipient organizations on NACOSA’s GBV programme will receive a set of materials.
News | 4 Jul 2018
We have made great strides in bringing HIV testing services to communities and getting more people to test regularly. But we are still not reaching enough people with testing, particularly men, adolescents and key populations. Could HIV self-testing be the answer to closing the gap? Despite the gains made in HIV testing, particularly in Africa where there has been huge scale-up, 40% of people living with HIV worldwide don’t know their status. According to Cheryl Johnson, Technical Officer at the World Health Organization, in Eastern and Southern Africa, uptake of testing has hit a plateau and is not having the…
Tags: hiv, hts, self testing
