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13 January 2021
With support from USAID and PEPFAR, NACOSA was able to adapt and translate a booklet explaining COVID-19...
25 November 2020
All survivors and victims of violence have a right to services. It doesn’t matter if you are young or...
25 November 2020
NACOSA marks with sorrow the passing of our former board member and HIV activist, Anne Lebethe Mabena,...
19 November 2020
Young women from Gugulethu check out the new mobile wellness clinics.
The Networking HIV and AIDS Community...
21 October 2020
Our global partners, Frontline AIDS, have published a fascinating report on the community HIV response...
3 April 2020
TB is short for Tuberculosis. It is an infectious bacterial disease that spreads through the air. Although...
3 April 2020
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are diseases passed from one person to another through unprotected...
30 March 2020
Antiretroviral medicines are used to treat HIV. If people living with HIV take their medicine correctly,...
20 March 2020
Our friends and partners at NACCW have shared some valuable resources on talking to children about Coronavirus....
20 March 2020
Please download and circulate these information posters on Coronavirus in English, isiZulu and isiXhosa.
The...
16 March 2020
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease which is carried in airborne particles and transmitted...
22 January 2020
The NACOSA Training Institute is thrilled to be able to offer a number of new accredited learning programmes...
20 January 2020
NACOSA was part of a PrEP implementation meeting in the Western Cape and helped to develop poster presentations...
6 December 2019
Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust’s care workers are providing an essential service in KwaZulu-Natal as part...
6 December 2019
The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Communities make the difference” – a fitting theme for us...
6 December 2019
Together with our partners and network, NACOSA has developed programmes that address challenges on the...
8 November 2019
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a critical intervention, shown to reduce HIV and other sexually...
31 October 2019
Representatives of some of the partners in the campus initiative got together recently for a kick-off...
30 October 2019
Training has begun for No Means No Worldwide’s IMpower programme in South Africa. A group of dedicated...
30 October 2019
NACOSA’s Rene Sparks, together with the UWC School of Public Health, presented an abstract poster on...
16 September 2019
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Local organisation NACOSA will be the first to implement No Means No Worldwide’s evidence-based...
13 September 2019
A report, produced by Sonke Gender Justice, has been published documenting the proceedings from a roundtable...
3 September 2019
As an organisation that has worked in the field of gender based violence for many years, NACOSA is horrified...
18 June 2019
Staff from NACOSA, Frontline AIDS, CANGO, EVA and Pakachere came together in Cape Town to learn and share.
NACOSA’s...
12 June 2019
Criminalisation of sex work in South Africa results in sex workers not trusting easily and providing...
3 June 2019
The Informer for May 2019 focuses on what’s new and trending in the AIDS response as well as reflecting...
9 May 2019
The Keeping Girls in Schools (KGS) programme is a component of the Global Fund Adolescent Girls and Young...
9 May 2019
Sex workers are identified as a key population in the South African National Strategic Plan (NSP) for...
12 March 2019
NACOSA invites South African civil society organisations to participate in the next Global Fund grant...
4 March 2019
The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development hosted the 2nd Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke Service Excellence...
22 January 2019
NACOSA in partnership with the National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW) and local CBOs based...
15 January 2019
Nolusindiso is HIV positive and a mother of a 12 year old. Before joining Circles of Support she was...
15 January 2019
Bongeka had a very difficult childhood. Her parents died when she was 3 months old and she lived with...
6 December 2018
By Leora Casey, Sex Work Specialist
The Sex Work Programme provides tailored peer-centred support...
26 November 2018
Young people, particularly young women, are often portrayed as irresponsible and feckless – getting pregnant...
22 November 2018
Sexually and physically abused as a child, singer Jennifer Jones learned how to overcome her trauma and...
22 November 2018
Two separate pieces of research published recently by NACOSA highlight the need for services and screening...
22 November 2018
By Sydney Davis, Provincial Manager, Eastern Cape
On 1 August 2018, while the country woke up to the...
18 September 2018
Two separate pieces of research published by the Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa...
14 September 2018
An evaluation of NGO services provided at Thuthuzela Care Centres (one-stop sexual assault centres based...
10 September 2018
Research by NACOSA in KwaZulu-Natal illustrates the rationale for simultaneously screening for HIV and...
24 August 2018
The Southern African Development Community – SADC – has endorsed and released a Regional...
20 July 2018
Rape and sexual abuse is an ongoing crisis in our communities. South Africa has one of the highest...
20 July 2018
NACOSA has produced a leaflet to provide information and advice to people who have had an HIV test. The...
4 July 2018
NACOSA has developed a new set of information materials for people experiencing gender based violence...
4 July 2018
We have made great strides in bringing HIV testing services to communities and getting more people to...
26 June 2018
As part of the Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) capacity building programme, NACOSA has trained...
21 May 2018
Choice Somagaca found out she was HIV positive a week after giving birth to her first born child when...
21 May 2018
Lack of funding is still the most pressing challenge faced by civil society organisations in the NACOSA...
21 May 2018
We have made great strides in bringing HIV testing services to communities and getting more people to...
8 May 2018
National Department of Health’s Adherence Guidelines for HIV, TB and NCDS: Standard Operating Procedures....
9 March 2018
As an accredited linking organisation NACOSA has demonstrated strong governance and organisational management....
6 March 2018
What is listeriosis?
Listeriosis is a serious bacterial disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes. It...
2 March 2018
The HIV and AIDS field is notorious for the use of acronyms and jargon. Here is a handy guide to the...
23 February 2018
Testing children for HIV can be challenging. Find out about NACOSA’s success with Mpilonhle Community...
20 February 2018
The End it Now! Together in Response to GBV and HIV Conference, organized by NACOSA and AFSA and...
13 February 2018
Her name is Nombulelo Nolihle Yose. She is the only daughter of seven children from Dimbaza in the Eastern...
5 December 2017
Nhlanhla Chiliza and Khetha Maphumulo are two young people from Lamontville who were concerned about...
23 November 2017
Thula Mkhize, CEO and Chairperson of Good Stories, found out he was living with HIV on the eighth of...
23 November 2017
A parent’s job is to guide their children safely to adulthood yet many parents or caregivers – for multiple...
20 November 2017
NACOSA recognises that the next five years presents a unique window of opportunity to ramp up the HIV...
20 November 2017
A parent’s job is to guide their children safely to adulthood yet many parents or caregivers – for multiple...
13 November 2017
At the heart of the National Strategic Plan for HIV TB and STI’s 2017-2022 is the strategy Focus for...
27 October 2017
The national conference to promote linking, learning and action on the state response to gender based...
25 October 2017
A coalition of civil society organisations are calling for a national strategic plan on gender-based...
20 October 2017
Gender-based violence is a persistent global challenge and one that costs South Africa between R28.4...
17 October 2017
Intimate partner violence – particularly sexual violence – is an underreported and hidden problem in...
7 September 2017
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is part of the UNAIDS Prevention Focal Point Group, responsible for...
4 August 2017
It’s Women’s Month. A time to remember the courage and activism of the Women’s March and to celebrate...
23 June 2017
Determination, grit, growing from failure, the ability to bounce back from a difficult experience. This...
15 June 2017
Various factors influence the health and wellbeing of educators within the school environment. These...
12 June 2017
Young South Africans face huge challenges this June 16th. Unemployment is at a new high, disproportionately...
6 June 2017
The Southern African Clinicians Society have issued guidelines on HIV self-testing (HIVST). These guidelines...
26 May 2017
NACOSA notes the release of the South African Law Reform Commission report on Project 107 dealing with...
26 May 2017
South Africa is in the grip of an epidemic of violence against women and children. Let’s join together...
23 May 2017
TB is normally associated with the lungs so most people don’t realise that TB can affect other organs...
19 May 2017
The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has awarded a R2.06 million grant to the Networking HIV/AIDS...
9 May 2017
Keep calm and bounce back: Determination, grit, growing from failure, the ability to bounce back from...
8 May 2017
NACOSA Network members – some 1,500 organisations across the country – are at the forefront of helping...
5 May 2017
Key Populations are groups of people who are most at risk of getting and passing on HIV, STIs and TB....
13 April 2017
The Protection of Personal Information Act (called POPI) was promulgated to enforce the Constitutional...
6 April 2017
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was conceived to fill the urgent need for a woman-controlled HIV prevention...
6 April 2017
It has been quite a start to the year in South Africa and globally. Very little seems certain and financial...
3 April 2017
The Department of Health has called on all members of the community to be extra vigilant with a measles...
30 March 2017
The South African National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB and STIs 2017- 2022 (NSP) serves as a roadmap for...
23 March 2017
INFO-GRAPHIC: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease which spreads through the air. Although...
14 March 2017
As a Global Fund Principal Recipient, NACOSA has signed up to the Global Fund Code of Conduct for Suppliers....
6 March 2017
World TB Day on 24 March has the theme “Unite to End TB”. But there is much work to be done to achieve...
15 February 2017
Databases can save lives. No, seriously! A very special initiative to build and maintain a database of...
26 January 2017
Produced by The Other Foundation, this insightful publication looks at narratives of engagement between...
19 December 2016
A Lasting Legacy is a collection of works from a writers’ retreat for Coordinators of NACOSA’s...
9 December 2016
The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children is an international awareness-raising...
6 December 2016
ASPIRES works to improve the long-term economic security and HIV prevention knowledge and skills of at-risk...
1 December 2016
As the next National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB (2017-2022) is being finalised, NACOSA asked...
30 November 2016
As principal recipient for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria between 2013 and 2016,...
30 November 2016
NACOSA recognises that the next five years presents a unique window of opportunity to ramp up the HIV...
28 November 2016
Action for Key Populations: Key populations are those who are most affected by HIV and AIDS within a...
15 November 2016
Children playing at an NACCW Isibindi Safe Park in KwaZulu-Natal
As part of the Global Fund grant (2013-2016),...
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