Alliance for African Women Initiative

HIV/AIDS: prevention, promoting behavior change, treatment, support and mitigating the societal impacts.
While AFAWI Ghana has been working to secure women's empowerment, we have paid particular attention to the HIV/AIDS pandemic which has taken hold of Africa in recent years. No other disease has so dramatically highlighted the current disparities in economic benefits and opportunities faced by African people.

AFAWI Ghana has joined forces with other organisations to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS and to support people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and those affected by it, such as orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs). We have a support group for PLWHA giving its members an opportunity to share experiences and discuss the challenges they face with others in similar circumstances.

Through strategic collaboration with OIC Ghana and USAID, we were able to launch the HOPE programme for members of our PLWHA support group. Amongst other activities, the HOPE program provides monthly care support guides to the members of the group, including educational materials and nutritional food supplements. The program has been a great success.