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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...
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...