AFRICAN ACTION ON AIDS INC
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Mission Statement
African Action on AIDS (AAA) was founded in 1991 in New York, with the primary objective of bringing education, hope and opportunity to HIV/AIDS-affected children in Sub-Saharan Africa. AAA helps youth to learn about HIV/AIDS and teaches them how to avoid infection. AAA operates in the belief that the young parents of tomorrow will raise healthy and productive families. To do this, they have to adopt healthy habits that will keep them alive. Africa's youths must become positive agents for change.
About This Cause
AAA's work aims for an immediate impact on people affected by HIV/AIDS, by reducing stigma and discrimination and by providing adequate services, support and care. We aim for a long- term impact on society by empowering communities and individuals, to be their own agents of change. AAA’s work is based on three major programs: “JUST KNOW” “Health Before Wealth” and “Women’s Economic Autonomy” through Scholarships The Just Know program consists of a series of annual workshops and education forums targeting young people and women with the following objectives. L = Learn About AIDS! A = Annual Testing! M = Maintain Healthy Habits! P = Positive Attitude! S = Safe Practices!The JUST KNOW program emphasizes knowledge: Of one’s body; That leads to behavior changes; That helps to visualize a future without AIDS and opportunistic diseases. In 2005 AAA launched a campaign for clean water, clean hands and clean latrines across more than 20 rural schools, orphanages, institutions for vulnerable children (blind and handicapped) and village networks (CVECAs) in Cameroon to stop the cycle of diseases that travel from the intestinal tract to the hands and the mouth. AAA continues to work in this network which now has over 500,000 participants AAA works to prevent HIV infection, but we also want to reduce the risk of opportunistic diseases that threaten the lives of those infected with HIV/AIDS. AAA has introduced multiple innovations to fight diseases caused by polluted water and unsanitary conditions. The scholarship program as part of the Women’s Economic Autonomy, enables each girl to complete at least a secondary, university or technical education. For children in the scholarship program, AAA works directly with each school to ensure that funds allocated are used as intended. AAA also provides each child with all required school supplies and uniforms as well as insecticide-treated bed nets. Each child undergoes a medical check-up and is vaccinated. We maintain a relationship with the child and the care provider. Since 2007 AAA has focused its scholarship programs on girls orphanedbyHIV/AIDS. In Partnership with the Batonga Foundation, AAA is helping to provide secondary and university education scholarships for 25 girls orphaned by HIV/AIDS. This dynamic group of young women aged between 14 and 22 years old, have lost either both parents or the primary income generator. Since 2007, 10 of the girls receiving scholarships have graduated from secondary school and 3 have graduated from university. .