The Southern African AIDS Trust (SAT) established in 1990, is an independent regional NGO that supports community responses to HIV and AIDS through community capacity strengthening and in-depth partnerships to enhance community HIV and AIDS competence.

Vision

SAT foresees a Southern Africa in which the inherent strengths of communities are upheld, supported, mobilised and deepened in order to decrease the incidence of HIV and AIDS, improve quality of life and contribute towards achieving the millennium development goals for all people of the region.

SAT envisages itself being a centre of excellence in facilitating the development of technical and organisational HIV and AIDS community competence.

Mission

SAT contributes to making resources work for communities. Community HIV and AIDS competence is enhanced via sub-granting linked to focused capacity enhancement, south-to-south skills exchange, experience sharing via School Without Walls and action research, and enhancing the voices of communities to become advocates for policy change.

SAT works directly and via its partners, to increase the HIV and AIDS competence of communities in Southern Africa. In this work SAT recognises and tackles the underlying factors such as socio economic and gender inequalities, which make communities and individuals vulnerable. SAT also embraces and promotes the strengths, ideas and power inherent in communities to resolve their own problems and improve their lives.

Areas of work

SAT’s goal is to increase the HIV and AIDS competence of communities. SAT supports community responses to HIV and AIDS through partnerships in five southern African countries as well as wider networking, skills exchange and lesson-sharing throughout the region. SAT’s grant-making, skills building and lesson-sharing activities support partners in a wide range of relevant activities including HIV prevention, care and support, ART literacy, PLWHA support groups and networks, impact mitigation, networking and information exchange, HIV-related advocacy on gender, human and child rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

Geographical coverage

SAT works in five SADC countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Contact

Regional Office
Suite 293, Dunkeld West Centre
281 Jan Smuts Avenue, Dunkeld West
P.O. Box 411919, Craighall Park, 2024
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Tel: (27 11) 341 0610, 341 0660
Fax: (27 11) 341 0661
Email: info@satregional.org

www.satregional.org