News | 6 Dec 2019
Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust’s care workers are providing an essential service in KwaZulu-Natal as part of NACOSA’s Community-based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response programme funded by USAID and PEPFAR. Care workers like Qondeni Ntinga link orphaned and vulnerable children to care, treatment and ongoing support services. In May, 14 year-old Sipho* and his three year-old sister, Mbali* lost their mother to an AIDS-related illness and had to move over 50km from their rural homestead just outside the town of Pietermaritzburg to live with their gogo (grandmother) in Shongweni. This was a traumatic time for the children who had to…
Informer, Publications | 6 Dec 2019
The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Communities make the difference” – a fitting theme for us at NACOSA, having maintained for many years that communities are at the heart of an effective response to HIV, AIDS and TB. Read all about communities making the difference in the World AIDS Day edition of the NACOSA Informer.
Project Report, Publications | 6 Dec 2019
Together with our partners and network, NACOSA has developed programmes that address challenges on the ground by taking note of local organisations and including key and vulnerable populations in the design of interventions. We also use our specialist expertise, backed up by the extensive experience of our finance, monitoring and evaluation and administrative staff. It is this collective knowledge that helps us to achieve success in reaching more people than ever before with programming that meets communities’ needs. Read more about this in our Annual Report >
Opportunities | 12 Nov 2019
CFP-AGY-02-10-2019 This tender opportunity has closed. The winner is Mogul Medical Solutions. NACOSA seeks the services of a suitably qualified company to provide 7 (seven) mobile health vehicles, fully furnished and equipped with clinical equipment on a rental or purchase option. Bidders are required to provide both options: purchase and rental in their quotes. The mobile clinic vehicles are needed across 2 Global Fund programmes: Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) and Sex Work (SW) programmes. The description of each programme as well as geographic location is described below in section 2 and 3 respectively.
News | 8 Nov 2019
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a critical intervention, shown to reduce HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, gender based violence and teen pregnancies. As an organisation working with children and youth across the country, NACOSA supports the Department of Basic Education’s CSE scripted lesson plans as critical to saving lives and supporting the health and wellbeing of young South Africans. South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV in the world at 7.7 million people. Most new HIV infections occur among young adults and adolescents, with HIV prevalence among young women nearly four times greater than that…
News | 31 Oct 2019
South Africa has 25 universities and 50 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges (FETs) with close to 427 campuses and a student population of around 1.5 million. Campuses are where young people, enjoying freedoms not available at school, learn, grow and discover who they are – sexually as well as emotionally. The risky behaviours associated with student life like drinking, drug-taking and casual sex make students more vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. But there are other factors putting students, particularly female students, at risk such as high rates of sexual violence and mental…
News | 30 Oct 2019
Training has begun for No Means No Worldwide’s IMpower programme in South Africa. A group of dedicated young women from NACOSA and partner organisations on the Adolescent Girls and Young Women programme have come together in Cape Town to start the intensive process of becoming facilitators for the empowerment self-defense programme proven to reduce rape by up to 50%. IMpower teaches women and girls between 10 and 20 how to identify risk early, how to say no effectively, and, if that doesn’t work, how to use physical self-defense to escape danger. IMpower also helps boys and young men understand that…
Publications, Research | 30 Oct 2019
NACOSA’s Rene Sparks, together with the UWC School of Public Health, presented an abstract poster on client experience of Primary Health Care services prior to and post the implementation of appointment systems at the Public Health South Africa conference. The poster presented the findings of a qualitative study to explore and understand clients’ experience, their perceived role in shaping the recently established appointment system and how they were introduced to the appointment system within city health clinics in the Western Cape Province. The study was part of a pilot initiative and focused on understanding how the appointment system has impacted…
News | 16 Sep 2019
MEDIA RELEASE Local organisation NACOSA will be the first to implement No Means No Worldwide’s evidence-based IMpower programme in South Africa. The announcement comes at a critical time in South Africa’s battle to turn the tide on sexual and gender based violence and will form one of a number of interventions by civil society working to reinvigorate its campaign to address the scourge. The IMpower violence prevention system offers knowledge, skills and practical strategies that end the cycle of violence by teaching boys to respect and support women and girls, and empowering girls to stand up for their rights. “What…
News, Publications | 13 Sep 2019
A report, produced by Sonke Gender Justice, has been published documenting the proceedings from a roundtable discussion on policing and sex work as part of the Positive Policing Partnership (PPP) which NACOSA is part of. Chaired by Marlise Richter (from Sonke Gender Justice), the roundtable comprised a panel of five experts from the sex work, law enforcement and civil society sectors. Through discussing ways of creating more positive relationships between law enforcement and sex workers, the purpose was to contribute to the aims and objectives of the Positive Policing Partnership (PPP) – and through more positive relationships to reduce human…
