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