Opportunities | 15 May 2023
SR-NAC-AYP-2023-04 Bids Received NACOSA is looking for non-profit organisations experienced in working in the field of gender based violence, and with presence in the Mitchells Plain sub-district of the City of Cape Town, to provide post-violence care services as part of NACOSA’s Global Fund programming for adolescents and young people. Full details and how to apply: TERMS OF REFERENCE > The deadline for applications has passed. DOCUMENTS Bids Received Terms of Reference Application Form
News | 12 May 2023
“When the mobile clinic visits regularly, there’s a lot of changes to that community, to that area, because there’s a decrease in teenage pregnancy, there’s a decrease in HIV.” DEBRA LAMOLA, MOBILE CLINIC NURSE As the mobile clinic moves through the community to its strategic location for the day, Debra Lamola, a qualified nurse, bounces about on her seat in the front cab next to the driver. Her passion for connecting with and caring for people motivated her to join a mobile medical team offering comprehensive medical services in the heart of communities. In a country where most new HIV infections…
News | 12 Apr 2023
“As you know, this is a male dominated industry. People will discourage you. People will doubt you. But I stay focused and stay the course, no matter what… I stay the course. Women are strong, powerful, brilliant and wonderful.” When Tsakane Baloyi came home and told her father it was time for him to stop working for someone else, and that it would be better if they started a panel beating shop of their own, he wasn’t sure. She recounts that “he was a bit worried that the business might take time for people to recognise, to know that we…
Evaluation, Publications, Research | 28 Mar 2023
The Red Umbrella GLO Programme is an economic empowerment intervention for sex workers that was developed and managed by NACOSA with funding from the Global Fund. The prevention and treatment of HIV among sex workers requires not only a clinical approach, but also strategies to address the structural barriers that increase sex workers’ vulnerability to HIV including legal, social and economic factors. A process evaluation of the pilot by Impact Consulting for NACOSA looked at implementation, outputs and outcomes to make recommendations for a next phase or possible scale-up. “Providing support for sex workers is the not the same as…
Evaluation, Publications, Research | 22 Mar 2023
Globally, people who inject drugs (PWID) are disproportionately affected by HIV. PWID are 28 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population. PWID also have higher rates of hepatitis C virus HCV and TB than the general population. Micro-planning is an outreach methodology that decentralises the planning and management of outreach to peer educators who work with PWID at the grassroots level. A process evaluation of micro-planning as a service delivery model on NACOSA’s People Who Use Drugs Programme, funded by the Global Fund, was conducted for NACOSA by the CHAPS and Sediba Hope Medical Centre. The evaluation found…
News | 20 Mar 2023
It is fitting that Saint Mathevula joins NACOSA in March, the month when we mark Human Rights Day commemorating Sharpeville, where 69 people were gunned down by police for protesting the Apartheid regime’s inhumane pass laws. Saint is NACOSA’s new Human Rights Programme Paralegal, working to ensure key and vulnerable populations can access their rights. Saint was born in small village in Limpopo called Mavalani where opportunities were limited, especially for girls. “The village I was born in struggles with getting basic needs such water, electricity, food, shelter, education and primary health care,” explains Saint. “I watched human rights violations…
Evaluation, Publications | 6 Mar 2023
Research shows that HIV affects women disproportionately in South Africa. In 2020, an estimated 4.8 million women aged 15 years and older had HIV, compared to 2.7 million men of the same age, with this phenomenon driven by biological and structural risks, including poverty, gender-based violence (GBV), and gender inequality. Recognising the vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), the Global Fund My Journey programme provides core and layered services to AGYW based on their individual needs. Within this programme, the Economic Strengthening Livelihoods service, or Grow Learn Own (GLO), provided AGYW who are not in employment, education, or…
News | 3 Mar 2023
Imagine a young person who is living with HIV, she is scared to go to her nearest clinic to pick up life saving treatment because of the judgement she constantly receives from some of the healthcare workers through stares and lectures. Imagine a sex worker who can’t report being brutally raped because she will be threatened with arrest by police. Imagine a person who uses drugs, living on the street and trying to stay HIV free, but is constantly harassed by police or security guards and can’t access clean needles. Imagine a gay man’s daily fear of being verbally and…
Evaluation, Publications | 23 Feb 2023
The Global Fund Sex Work Programme aims to prevent new HIV infections among sex workers in South Africa. Between 2019 and 2022, the programme was managed by NACOSA working with implementing organisations in thirteen districts. One of the key components of the programme was to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV prevention method newly introduced in South Africa, to HIV negative sex workers to reduce new HIV infections. A process evaluation was conducted by Impact Consulting for NACOSA to assesses the processes that the programme used to support initiation, uptake, cycling and prevention- effective adherence with regards to PrEP, and…
News | 22 Feb 2023
South Africa has a growing number of injecting drug users, a worrying development for a number of reasons: it can lead to the spread of blood borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis and once people who use drugs transition to injecting from other kinds of drug use, their chances of overdose increase. Furthermore, without proper infrastructure for the disposal of injecting equipment, the broader community will be met with an environmental health problem – exposure to ‘sharps’ (needles and other sharp objects used for injecting) that are contaminated. Organisations working with people who use drugs (PWUD) take responsibility for the…
