HIV is a significant threat to South Africa’s public health, particularly among women. UNAIDS show...

NACOSA (Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa) is proud to announce the launch of the...

While medical science has made significant progress on HIV, AIDS, TB and other sexual and reproductive...

In communities across South Africa, NACOSA is working to engage adolescent boys and young men in vital...

CFI-NACOSA-01-2024 As part of the grant management function, NACOSA is investigating the use of an online...

Our GBV programmes team with colleagues from USAID at the NACOSA exhibition stand. Last week, NACOSA...

CFP-NACOSA-13-2024 NACOSA is looking to convert 16 panel vans [Iveco Daily 50C15HE5A8V (4100)] to become...

NACOSA applied for funding from the 1st for Women Foundation to design and develop a modular, victim-centred...

Life hasn’t been easy, but I’ve learned to rise above the challenges and become a better version of myself....

Sharon Kouta recently retired from NACOSA, where she served as a GBV Programme Specialist and...

On the 23rd of August 2024, we concluded our Mentorship 3 and 4 programmes at the University of Johannesburg...

CFP-NACOSA-10-2024 NACOSA seek the services of a company to supply, license and deliver 7-Seater motor...

CFP-NACOSA-11-2024 NACOSA is inviting reputable companies with the relevant skills and experience to...

Health is essential for a life of dignity and is one of the foundational promises of South Africa’s Constitution....

What a dynamic, complex, and diverse group of partners! says NACOSA’s Community-based Organisations Networking...

Globally, people who inject drugs (PWID) are disproportionately affected by HIV, being 28 times more...

CFP-NACOSA-07-2024 NACOSA requires a service provider to supply, license and deliver nineteen (19) panel...

NACOSA celebrates the strength of the women who have found new hope through the Grow, Learn, Own (GLO)...

NACOSA is committed to supporting all mothers in their breastfeeding journey, including those living...

CFP-NACOSA-06-2024        NACOSA seek the services of a company to supply, license and deliver motor...

An abstract poster presented at the International AIDS Conference 2024 by Yolaan Andrews, NACOSA’s...

An abstract poster presented at the International AIDS Conference 2024 by Cezzanne Hoffmann, NACOSA’s...

An abstract poster presented at the International AIDS Conference 2024 by NACOSA M&E Manager, Dr...

NACOSA supports the Global Alliance’s mission to end AIDS in Children by 2030. The Global Alliance...

At the age of 18, Priscilla Mokwala found herself pregnant, an experience that brought both challenges...

NACOSA was part of the Community Led Monitoring Research Workshop, convened by IAS – the International...

Neo (he/him), a 22-year-old from Mabopane in Pretoria, proudly steps forward to share his experiences...

Lorenzo August (she/her), is a young queer person from Kimberley in the Northern Cape. Her story is proof...

NACOSA is part of the Citizen Science community-led monitoring project with the ITPC. The project observes...

NACOSA seeks the services of a reputable legal service provider to provide a legal opinion on suspension...

CFP-NACOSA-03-2024 Three Global Fund Principal Recipients (PRs) namely, NACOSA, Beyond Zero and AFSA,...

CM-TI_VFM-04-2024 The Training Institute requires a service provider to research and compile an analysis...

NACOSA’s Youth Summit provided a platform for addressing the critical issue of gender-based violence....

When it came..  it was too good to be true, honestly. Having someone to listen to me, to all my...

People know about TB, but knowing about TB isn’t the same as having information on what to do when...

South Africa needs a drug policy that focuses on putting people first. There are an estimated 400 000...

In the vast landscape of South Africa’s AIDS response, there exists a group that is often overlooked...

The purpose is to identify the gaps that they have been missing, that they are not aware that they are...

The South African Constitution was the first in the world to protect the rights of sexual and gender...

Investing in gender-based-violence services and strengthening community and justice systems alone cannot...

SR-NAC-AYP-2023-04 Bids Received NACOSA is looking for non-profit organisations experienced in working...

When the mobile clinic visits regularly, there’s a lot of changes to that community, to that area,...

As you know, this is a male dominated industry. People will discourage you. People will doubt you. But...

The Red Umbrella GLO Programme is an economic empowerment intervention for sex workers that was developed...

Globally, people who inject drugs (PWID) are disproportionately affected by HIV. PWID are 28 times more...

It is fitting that Saint Mathevula joins NACOSA in March, the month when we mark Human Rights Day commemorating...

Research shows that HIV affects women disproportionately in South Africa. In 2020, an estimated 4.8 million...

Imagine a young person who is living with HIV, she is scared to go to her nearest clinic to pick up life...

The Global Fund Sex Work Programme aims to prevent new HIV infections among sex workers in South Africa....

NACOSA’s Key Populations Manager, Yolaan Andrews and PWUD Specialist, Kalvanya Padayachee, with...

A professional nurse from the West Rand in Gauteng talks about the experience of being part of a Community...

It’s fitting that the day before Valentine’s Day is International Condom Day. Condoms are one of the...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among South African women, and the cancer women die...

Dr Saadiq Kariem announces his departure as chairperson at the NACOSA Leadership and Networking Summit. NACOSA’s...

 “Just before the Covid pandemic, we were 35 networking organisations working together,” says...

Photograph: Parliament of RSA NACOSA’s Executive Director, Mohamed Motala, was asked to address the...

Twenty years ago, the world came together to create the Global Fund to fight the deadliest...

Child and youth care workers from Empilweni in Khayelitsha with members of the United States Congress,...

Through NACOSA’s network, the Yes We Can Foundation and the Mpower Menstrual Cup Project collaborated...

NACOSA was privileged to be represented at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada. Many...

NACOSA was happy to work with the SAMRC once again on a research paper published in the Frontiers in...

Adolescent boys and young men are often not actively pursued for HIV prevention interventions. Consequently,...

NACOSA’s Adolescents and Young People programme recently supported the upgrading of 18 primary...

NACOSA is proud to have co-authored a research paper with South African Medical Research Council, the...

NACOSA has recently been the victim of a cybercrime attack. We would like to therefore alert all our...

NACOSA In-school Programme Officer, Neo Mogari, with young people from MIET at the launch of Education...

TB is one of the world’s oldest diseases but, although it is now curable, it is still a leading cause...

South Africa’s medicines regulator, SAHPRA, has approved the new vaginal ring for use by women ages 18...

Some organisations that are currently implementing Global Fund programmes as NACOSA sub-recipients were...

South Africa’s constitution and legal framework is rooted in the recognition, protection and promotion...

The axes of poverty, gender, sexual orientation, race, age and class intersect. Some are getting the...

As a result of an enormous public outcry, as well as civil society mobilisation, President Ramaphosa...

It has been 40 years since the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were identified in the...

Update: On 28 December 2021, community activists won their court application for an interim interdict...

Along with the life-saving Covid-19 vaccines that were developed over the past 18 months through unprecedented...

Peer educators on the Sex Worker programme. Sex workers are often stereotyped, exposed, stigmatised and...

“It’s quite hard being an unemployed youth, it’s depressing at times and expensive also as...

NACOSA was honoured to join SANAC, the SANAC Civil Society Forum, the Departments of Health and Justice,...

Taking vaccines to the people, young women as social media Influencers, practical advice for combatting...

Sex workers and people who inject drugs, who are considered ‘key populations’ in terms of HIV, face huge...

There is a painful story behind many of the people you see sleeping on the pavements, under bus shelters...

August, the Minister of Police announced a staggering 74% increase in reported sexual offences in the...

When COVID-19 arrived in South Africa in 2020, NACOSA’s My Journey programme for adolescent girls and...

South Africa’s response to drug use has been similar to the initial response to HIV and AIDS: promoting...

Research in 2019 found that adolescent girls and young women, while being at increased risk of acquiring...

Because we have largest HIV burden in the world, coupled with a very high TB burden, a number of new...

Young women in South Africa are not equal. They are more at risk of getting HIV, more likely to leave...

Tsaki* attended the No Means No empowerment self-defense classes run by Childline Gauteng as part of...

According to the World Health Organisation, about half of all mental health conditions begin by 14 years...

  The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on South Africa’s economy have created...

Zoom orientation session with NACOSA, No Means No Worldwide and local implementers. NACOSA is excited...

Mohamed Motala joined NACOSA as Executive Director at the beginning of June and has quickly set about...

NACOSA, in partnership with the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust, hosted the Second National Roundtable on...

“When COVID-19 struck we were not prepared,” says Pinampi Maano, Civil Society Forum Chairperson and...

With COVID-19 taking up all the news, it is easy to forget that we are already at the centre of a global...

NACOSA’s adolescent girls and young women programme specialist, Colleen Wagner, contributed to...

We have experienced so much loss over the past year – personally, as a community, a country and globally....

It is with great sadness and heaviness of hearts that we have learnt about the passing on of a gallant...

A healthy diet is important for everyone – it helps the body stay strong to fight disease. For...

NACOSA has developed some flyers on COVID-19 to provide up-to-date and accurate information to the communities...