Here is a comprehensive overview of CAFI’s programs, not only in the United States, but also around the world. Our programs range from treatment and prevention in rural Africa, to providing Christmas gifts for children in the U.S. impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Program Impact & Promising Practices
CAFI is changing lives through its programs in the United States and Africa. Here are real-life examples of how CAFI is impacting people, families, and communities.
CAFI and its partners are often recognized for innovative ideas and program implementation. These practices are highlighted here in the hope that other programs will find them helpful.
U.S. Programs
CAFI has a number of programs based in the United States.
Global Programs
The Children's AIDS Fund International (CAFI) has been involved in both domestic and global programs since the late 1980s. CAFI's global strategy is to build the capacity of in-country grassroots organizations to meet the needs of their communities. CAFI builds partnerships by identifying in-country groups already involved in effective activities and initiatives consistent with CAFI's program priorities.
Malawi
St. Gabriel's Hospital is a Catholic mission hospital founded in 1959, located in the Lilongwe district approximately 60 kilometers from the Lilongwe, Malawi's capital city. The hospital provides both inpatient and outpatient care for a rural population serving a catchment area of 700 villages and approximately 200,000 people.
In 2002 CAFI provided seed funds for a multi-phased project focused on community education and outreach, preventing mother to child transmission through perinatal HIV screening, a post-partum antiretroviral treatment program using mother's helpers as adherence monitors, in addition the program focuses on HIV screening and treatment for spouses of the new mothers. This is a collaborative project between St. Gabriel's Hospital, the University of Maryland's Institute for Human Virology in Baltimore (a team led by Dr. Robert R. Redfield) and CAFI.Through its community education and mobilization efforts, St. Gabriel's Hospital has transformed a population where stigma was the norm into a compassionate supporting and caring community. Approximately 600 volunteers actively participate in 20 Village AIDS Committees that actively work to educate those in the 700 villages in St. Gabriel's catchment area to HIV/AIDS prevention and the importance of diagnosis.
The effort started in 2002 has resulted in HIV infected and affected families openly organizing themselves in associations of people living with HIV/AIDS with the support of community leaders. As a result of this educational effort, St. Gabriel's has seen a high uptake (90.3%) of mothers attending antenatal clinics volunteering for HIV counseling and testing. In 2004, of the 4,721 women who attended perinatal clinics, 4,267 were tested. Of those, 156 tested HIV-positive, a prevalence rate of 3.9%.
South Africa
CAFI collaborates with a large number of service organizations and government leaders in South Africa that provide a broad range of services and support. CAFI's program partners are primarily located and serving the Eastern Cape Province, an area of the country which is largely rural with limited resources, yet a growing HIV problem.Through a partnership with the Institute for Youth Development South Africa (IYDSA), CAFI supports five treatment and care sites that are part of the AIDSRelief consortium and are located in East London, Stutterheim, Port Elizabeth, Hamburg and Great Kei.IYDSA staff provide treatment and care at all sites, training for local service organizations who provide local adherence monitoring, and ongoing support for local community outreach services.IYDSA also partners with the Eastern Cape provincial government to access increasingly available medications and laboratory support to complement the program funded under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).Sophumelela, Inc., an HIV outreach of First City Baptist Church in East London, is CAFI's partner in prevention and orphan projects. The organization opened the first clinic supported through the CAFI/IYDSA treatment and care partnership, runs a day-care center for children of clinic patients, and income-generating projects to benefit patients and their children. The outreach will be opening a satellite site in 2008 in partnership with another church to expand services to particularly underserved populations.Additional projects initiated through these partnerships include nutrition support through food plots. CAFI has also facilitated technical assistance and support for local HIV/AIDS organizations through Barnabas Trust.
Uganda
CAFI's first staff member went to Uganda in the last 1980s to work for several months with a traveling AIDS prevention drama team focused on educating youth.Over the past six years CAFI has worked with Uganda government and private sector leaders to bolster indigenous prevention programs that were instrumental in dramatically reducing the number of Ugandans infected with HIV, support orphan projects and initiate treatment and care programs.In 2005 opened a CAFI Uganda office to implement programs as well serve as liaison with partners and donors, including AIDSRelief and USAID. CAFI programs are linked with the goal of providing comprehensive HIV services to those served.The first treatment program began in 2003 supported by CAFI with private sector contributions. Today CAFI manages two HIV clinics, Family Hope Centres in Kampala and Jinja, providing family centered HIV care.In addition, CAFI supports two clinics founded by the Bushenyi Medical Center (BMC), Kabwohe and Katungu, located in the western rural district of Bushenyi. BMC was founded by Doctor Elioda Tumweisgwe, who is also a member of the Uganda Parliament and serves as Chairman of the Parliament's HIV Committee.All treatment and care sites are part of the AIDSRelief consortium led by Catholic Relief Services and funded by the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.Under a grant from USAID, CAF Uganda implements a prevention program reaching youth ages 10-24 with messages of abstinence and faithfulness. The Uganda Youth Forum, an initiative of Uganda's First Lady Mrs. Janet Museveni, is a collaborative partner in this initiative.Seventy trained peer facilitators will reach 50,000 youth in 2008 with prevention messages through multiple educational sessions and activities that are community-based and coordinated through local government councils to ensure coordination of messages and ongoing follow-up.An outreach to parents, guardians, caregivers and community leaders is a critical part of this program.CAFI provides support for numerous orphan projects through private contributions. CAFI partners include:The Migyera UWESO Training Institute founded by the First Lady's initiative Uganda Women's Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) and located in Naksongola District
Living Hope Orphan's School in the Nateete section of Kampala, and
Terry Duffy Home founded by He Intends Victory and is located in Jinja. CAFI funds have facilitated completion of buildings, purchased cows for animal husbandry training, provided food, school uniforms, and educational materials and school tuition.
Zambia
Since 2003, CAFI has worked with Zambian partner organizations to provide HIV care, treatment and services. In 2007, CAF Zambia was initiated to provide support for local partners and serve as liaison with government and private-sector leaders.Expanded Church Response to HIV/AIDS Trust (ECR) has been a CAFI partner in several projects. President and founder Bishop Joshua Banda is currently Chairman of the Zambia National AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council.CAFI supports five treatment and care sites in Zambia as part of the AIDSRelief consortium. Circle of Hope was founded by a group of HIV positive members of the Northmead Assembly of God Church and is located in the Manda Hills area of Lusaka.Macha Hospital is a government hospital in rural Choma. Chreso Ministries, an outreach of Gospel Outreach Fellowship, is operating three treatment sites, one in Lusaka, one in Livingstone and on in Kabwe Prison.Through a partnership with Helping Hands Africa, an outreach of the Nazarene Church, CAFI supports a prevention program that in 2007 trained more than 300 peer facilitators who reached more than 50,000 youth with messages of abstinence and faithfulness.CAFI also facilitated the prevention outreach of True Love Waits in 2006 and 2007.CAFI supports a number of orphans through local partners by providing school uniforms, school supplies and tuition, as well as one-time special needs.
CAFI is actively involved in care and treatment, prevention, and orphan programs. Ranging from urban to rural environments, CAFI’s programs are changing lives for the better.
The Children’s AIDS Fund International (CAFI) has been involved in both domestic and global programs since the late 1980s. CAFI’s global strategy is to build the capacity of in-country grassroots organizations to meet the needs of their communities. CAFI builds partnerships by identifying in-country groups already involved in effective activities and initiatives consistent with CAFI’s program priorities.
St. Gabriel’s Hospital is a Catholic mission hospital founded in 1959, located in the Lilongwe district approximately 60 kilometers from the Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital city. The hospital provides both inpatient and outpatient care for a rural population serving a catchment area of 700 villages and approximately 200,000 people.
In 2002 CAFI provided seed funds for a multi-phased project focused on community education and outreach, preventing mother to child transmission through perinatal HIV screening, a post-partum antiretroviral treatment program using mother’s helpers as adherence monitors, in addition the program focuses on HIV screening and treatment for spouses of the new mothers. This is a collaborative project between St. Gabriel’s Hospital, the University of Maryland’s Institute for Human Virology in Baltimore (a team led by Dr. Robert R. Redfield) and CAFI.
Through its community education and mobilization efforts, St. Gabriel’s Hospital has transformed a population where stigma was the norm into a compassionate supporting and caring community. Approximately 600 volunteers actively participate in 20 Village AIDS Committees that actively work to educate those in the 700 villages in St. Gabriel’s catchment area to HIV/AIDS prevention and the importance of diagnosis.
The effort started in 2002 has resulted in HIV infected and affected families openly organizing themselves in associations of people living with HIV/AIDS with the support of community leaders. As a result of this educational effort, St. Gabriel’s has seen a high uptake (90.3%) of mothers attending antenatal clinics volunteering for HIV counseling and testing. In 2004, of the 4,721 women who attended perinatal clinics, 4,267 were tested. Of those, 156 tested HIV-positive, a prevalence rate of 3.9%.
CAFI collaborates with a large number of service organizations and government leaders in South Africa that provide a broad range of services and support. CAFI’s program partners are primarily located and serving the Eastern Cape Province, an area of the country which is largely rural with limited resources, yet a growing HIV problem.
Through a partnership with the Institute for Youth Development South Africa (IYDSA), CAFI supports five treatment and care sites that are part of the AIDSRelief consortium and are located in East London, Stutterheim, Port Elizabeth, Hamburg and Great Kei.
IYDSA staff provide treatment and care at all sites, training for local service organizations who provide local adherence monitoring, and ongoing support for local community outreach services.
IYDSA also partners with the Eastern Cape provincial government to access increasingly available medications and laboratory support to complement the program funded under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Sophumelela, Inc., an HIV outreach of First City Baptist Church in East London, is CAFI’s partner in prevention and orphan projects. The organization opened the first clinic supported through the CAFI/IYDSA treatment and care partnership, runs a day-care center for children of clinic patients, and income-generating projects to benefit patients and their children. The outreach will be opening a satellite site in 2008 in partnership with another church to expand services to particularly underserved populations.
Additional projects initiated through these partnerships include nutrition support through food plots. CAFI has also facilitated technical assistance and support for local HIV/AIDS organizations through Barnabas Trust.
CAFI’s first staff member went to Uganda in the last 1980s to work for several months with a traveling AIDS prevention drama team focused on educating youth.
Over the past six years CAFI has worked with Uganda government and private sector leaders to bolster indigenous prevention programs that were instrumental in dramatically reducing the number of Ugandans infected with HIV, support orphan projects and initiate treatment and care programs.
In 2005 opened a CAFI Uganda office to implement programs as well serve as liaison with partners and donors, including AIDSRelief and USAID. CAFI programs are linked with the goal of providing comprehensive HIV services to those served.
The first treatment program began in 2003 supported by CAFI with private sector contributions. Today CAFI manages two HIV clinics, Family Hope Centres in Kampala and Jinja, providing family centered HIV care.
In addition, CAFI supports two clinics founded by the Bushenyi Medical Center (BMC), Kabwohe and Katungu, located in the western rural district of Bushenyi. BMC was founded by Doctor Elioda Tumweisgwe, who is also a member of the Uganda Parliament and serves as Chairman of the Parliament’s HIV Committee.
All treatment and care sites are part of the AIDSRelief consortium led by Catholic Relief Services and funded by the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.
Under a grant from USAID, CAF Uganda implements a prevention program reaching youth ages 10-24 with messages of abstinence and faithfulness. The Uganda Youth Forum, an initiative of Uganda’s First Lady Mrs. Janet Museveni, is a collaborative partner in this initiative.
Seventy trained peer facilitators will reach 50,000 youth in 2008 with prevention messages through multiple educational sessions and activities that are community-based and coordinated through local government councils to ensure coordination of messages and ongoing follow-up.
An outreach to parents, guardians, caregivers and community leaders is a critical part of this program.
CAFI provides support for numerous orphan projects through private contributions. CAFI partners include:
The Migyera UWESO Training Institute founded by the First Lady’s initiative Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) and located in Naksongola District
Living Hope Orphan’s School in the Nateete section of Kampala, and
Terry Duffy Home founded by He Intends Victory and is located in Jinja. CAFI funds have facilitated completion of buildings, purchased cows for animal husbandry training, provided food, school uniforms, and educational materials and school tuition.[accordion title=”Zambia”]
Since 2003, CAFI has worked with Zambian partner organizations to provide HIV care, treatment and services. In 2007, CAF Zambia was initiated to provide support for local partners and serve as liaison with government and private-sector leaders.
Expanded Church Response to HIV/AIDS Trust (ECR) has been a CAFI partner in several projects. President and founder Bishop Joshua Banda is currently Chairman of the Zambia National AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council.
CAFI supports five treatment and care sites in Zambia as part of the AIDSRelief consortium. Circle of Hope was founded by a group of HIV positive members of the Northmead Assembly of God Church and is located in the Manda Hills area of Lusaka.
Macha Hospital is a government hospital in rural Choma. Chreso Ministries, an outreach of Gospel Outreach Fellowship, is operating three treatment sites, one in Lusaka, one in Livingstone and on in Kabwe Prison.
Through a partnership with Helping Hands Africa, an outreach of the Nazarene Church, CAFI supports a prevention program that in 2007 trained more than 300 peer facilitators who reached more than 50,000 youth with messages of abstinence and faithfulness.
CAFI also facilitated the prevention outreach of True Love Waits in 2006 and 2007.
CAFI supports a number of orphans through local partners by providing school uniforms, school supplies and tuition, as well as one-time special needs.
Here is a comprehensive overview of CAFI’s programs, not only in the United States, but also around the world. Our programs range from treatment and prevention in rural Africa, to providing Christmas gifts for children in the U.S. impacted by HIV/AIDS. [/note]
Program Impact & Promising Practices
CAFI is changing lives through its programs in the United States and Africa. Here are real-life examples of how CAFI is impacting people, families, and communities.
CAFI and its partners are often recognized for innovative ideas and program implementation. These practices are highlighted here in the hope that other programs will find them helpful.
U.S. Programs
CAFI has a number of programs based in the United States.
Global Programs
CAFI is actively involved in care and treatment, prevention, and orphan programs. Ranging from urban to rural environments, CAFI’s programs are changing lives for the better.
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The Children’s AIDS Fund International (CAFI) has been involved in both domestic and global programs since the late 1980s. CAFI’s global strategy is to build the capacity of in-country grassroots organizations to meet the needs of their communities. CAFI builds partnerships by identifying in-country groups already involved in effective activities and initiatives consistent with CAFI’s program priorities.
St. Gabriel’s Hospital is a Catholic mission hospital founded in 1959, located in the Lilongwe district approximately 60 kilometers from the Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital city. The hospital provides both inpatient and outpatient care for a rural population serving a catchment area of 700 villages and approximately 200,000 people.
In 2002 CAFI provided seed funds for a multi-phased project focused on community education and outreach, preventing mother to child transmission through perinatal HIV screening, a post-partum antiretroviral treatment program using mother’s helpers as adherence monitors, in addition the program focuses on HIV screening and treatment for spouses of the new mothers. This is a collaborative project between St. Gabriel’s Hospital, the University of Maryland’s Institute for Human Virology in Baltimore (a team led by Dr. Robert R. Redfield) and CAFI.
Through its community education and mobilization efforts, St. Gabriel’s Hospital has transformed a population where stigma was the norm into a compassionate supporting and caring community. Approximately 600 volunteers actively participate in 20 Village AIDS Committees that actively work to educate those in the 700 villages in St. Gabriel’s catchment area to HIV/AIDS prevention and the importance of diagnosis.
The effort started in 2002 has resulted in HIV infected and affected families openly organizing themselves in associations of people living with HIV/AIDS with the support of community leaders. As a result of this educational effort, St. Gabriel’s has seen a high uptake (90.3%) of mothers attending antenatal clinics volunteering for HIV counseling and testing. In 2004, of the 4,721 women who attended perinatal clinics, 4,267 were tested. Of those, 156 tested HIV-positive, a prevalence rate of 3.9%.
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[accordion title=”South Africa”]
CAFI collaborates with a large number of service organizations and government leaders in South Africa that provide a broad range of services and support. CAFI’s program partners are primarily located and serving the Eastern Cape Province, an area of the country which is largely rural with limited resources, yet a growing HIV problem.
Through a partnership with the Institute for Youth Development South Africa (IYDSA), CAFI supports five treatment and care sites that are part of the AIDSRelief consortium and are located in East London, Stutterheim, Port Elizabeth, Hamburg and Great Kei.
IYDSA staff provide treatment and care at all sites, training for local service organizations who provide local adherence monitoring, and ongoing support for local community outreach services.
IYDSA also partners with the Eastern Cape provincial government to access increasingly available medications and laboratory support to complement the program funded under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Sophumelela, Inc., an HIV outreach of First City Baptist Church in East London, is CAFI’s partner in prevention and orphan projects. The organization opened the first clinic supported through the CAFI/IYDSA treatment and care partnership, runs a day-care center for children of clinic patients, and income-generating projects to benefit patients and their children. The outreach will be opening a satellite site in 2008 in partnership with another church to expand services to particularly underserved populations.
Additional projects initiated through these partnerships include nutrition support through food plots. CAFI has also facilitated technical assistance and support for local HIV/AIDS organizations through Barnabas Trust.
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CAFI’s first staff member went to Uganda in the last 1980s to work for several months with a traveling AIDS prevention drama team focused on educating youth.
Over the past six years CAFI has worked with Uganda government and private sector leaders to bolster indigenous prevention programs that were instrumental in dramatically reducing the number of Ugandans infected with HIV, support orphan projects and initiate treatment and care programs.
In 2005 opened a CAFI Uganda office to implement programs as well serve as liaison with partners and donors, including AIDSRelief and USAID. CAFI programs are linked with the goal of providing comprehensive HIV services to those served.
The first treatment program began in 2003 supported by CAFI with private sector contributions. Today CAFI manages two HIV clinics, Family Hope Centres in Kampala and Jinja, providing family centered HIV care.
In addition, CAFI supports two clinics founded by the Bushenyi Medical Center (BMC), Kabwohe and Katungu, located in the western rural district of Bushenyi. BMC was founded by Doctor Elioda Tumweisgwe, who is also a member of the Uganda Parliament and serves as Chairman of the Parliament’s HIV Committee.
All treatment and care sites are part of the AIDSRelief consortium led by Catholic Relief Services and funded by the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.
Under a grant from USAID, CAF Uganda implements a prevention program reaching youth ages 10-24 with messages of abstinence and faithfulness. The Uganda Youth Forum, an initiative of Uganda’s First Lady Mrs. Janet Museveni, is a collaborative partner in this initiative.
Seventy trained peer facilitators will reach 50,000 youth in 2008 with prevention messages through multiple educational sessions and activities that are community-based and coordinated through local government councils to ensure coordination of messages and ongoing follow-up.
An outreach to parents, guardians, caregivers and community leaders is a critical part of this program.
CAFI provides support for numerous orphan projects through private contributions. CAFI partners include:
The Migyera UWESO Training Institute founded by the First Lady’s initiative Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) and located in Naksongola District
Living Hope Orphan’s School in the Nateete section of Kampala, and
Terry Duffy Home founded by He Intends Victory and is located in Jinja. CAFI funds have facilitated completion of buildings, purchased cows for animal husbandry training, provided food, school uniforms, and educational materials and school tuition.
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[accordion title=”Zambia”]
Since 2003, CAFI has worked with Zambian partner organizations to provide HIV care, treatment and services. In 2007, CAF Zambia was initiated to provide support for local partners and serve as liaison with government and private-sector leaders.
Expanded Church Response to HIV/AIDS Trust (ECR) has been a CAFI partner in several projects. President and founder Bishop Joshua Banda is currently Chairman of the Zambia National AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council.
CAFI supports five treatment and care sites in Zambia as part of the AIDSRelief consortium. Circle of Hope was founded by a group of HIV positive members of the Northmead Assembly of God Church and is located in the Manda Hills area of Lusaka.
Macha Hospital is a government hospital in rural Choma. Chreso Ministries, an outreach of Gospel Outreach Fellowship, is operating three treatment sites, one in Lusaka, one in Livingstone and on in Kabwe Prison.
Through a partnership with Helping Hands Africa, an outreach of the Nazarene Church, CAFI supports a prevention program that in 2007 trained more than 300 peer facilitators who reached more than 50,000 youth with messages of abstinence and faithfulness.
CAFI also facilitated the prevention outreach of True Love Waits in 2006 and 2007.
CAFI supports a number of orphans through local partners by providing school uniforms, school supplies and tuition, as well as one-time special needs.
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