This report covers the period 01/01/2010 to 31/12/2010.
In brief
Programme outcome: In line with Strategy 2020, strategic aim 2, to enable healthy and safe living, National Societies (NS) in the southern Africa region have continued to implement HIV interventions that aim at alleviating the suffering of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The Global Alliance on HIV (2006-2010), and its seven principles,1 has been rolled out in all ten National Societies in the Southern Africa region.
The regional HIV programme is directly driven by the UNGASS Declaration of 2006 where governments committed to scale-up interventions towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2015. In line with the Millennium Development Goals the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Southern Africa Regional Representation Office (SARRO) launched an innovative and dynamic five-year (2006-2010) regional HIV and AIDS programme. The ten National Societies in the region2 embarked on the programme to scale-up and build capacities to improve the overall implementation and management of their HIV/AIDS interventions.
Specifically, the aim of the programme was to quadruple the number of people reached by 2010 by targeting 50 million people with prevention messages and peer education activities, 250,000 people with an expanded prevention, care, treatment and support programme, and 460,000 OVC with a holistic package of educational, material and psycho-social support.