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AVERT's HIV and AIDS work has a direct impact on the AIDS epidemic. We reach millions of people who are both affected by and living with HIV/AIDS across the world, through media, the internet and community programmes in Africa.

AVERT is a not-for-profit charity and receives no government or statutory funding. That means your donations are put towards our HIV/AIDS work, as our administrative costs are kept low. We want a future without AIDS and you can help us.

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A ceremony for community members who have passed their home-based care training at the AVERT Sisonke Project, South Africa.

By fundraising for AVERT, you will be helping to improve access to HIV/AIDS education, treatment and care. With your donations, we will:

• continue to do HIV and AIDS work that improves access to education, treatment and care
• help communities in sub-Saharan Africa to respond to AIDS through our project work
• enable our projects to deliver more services to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS
• continue to take HIV/AIDS education to the world with our website
• provide an information service so that people have someone to talk to about any aspect of HIV and AIDS

Make a difference - make a donation.

A red ribbon

AVERT is committed to providing services that are highly educational, free from judgement and not biased by connections to pharmaceuticals, governments or advertising.

That means all of our vital work is funded completely by the donations of generous individuals just like you.

You can help us to maintain HIV and AIDS education and care. Every donation is important to us and goes towards averting the AIDS epidemic around the world.

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The AVERT.org Media Gallery

Over 30 million people use our website every year because they need HIV/AIDS information and advice - and our reach is increasing.

Your support for our website will allow us to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate resource on HIV and AIDS. As stigma and discrmination continues to affect people living with HIV, it's so important that the facts about the virus are presented in a clear and non-biased way.

Support the AVERT website, so that we can:

• develop more pages on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care
• research and write new content
• ensure our website remains accessible to a range of users
• create interactive resources on HIV and AIDS, such as games, photos and videos
• harness new developments in web design and social media
• reach more people with HIV/AIDS news via our successful Facebook page

Read more about what we do to support our website. Take a look around www.avert.org

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Community action feeding the AIDS orphans at the Sisonke project, South Africa

AVERT provides funding for community-led HIV and AIDS projects that are based in some of the areas most severely affected by the AIDS epidemic. All of our projects have developed services that reflect the interests and needs of often disadvantaged or vulnerable members of the community, such as children orphaned as a result of AIDS, and elderly care-givers.

All of AVERT's AIDS projects operate in resource-limited environments where more funding is needed in order to ensure HIV services can take root. AVERT is already supporting two projects which provide work that improves the lives of people dealing with the effects of AIDS.

AVERT relies on fundraising to support these projects - and we need your help so that these services are provided to more people living in some of the most disadvantaged parts of the world. Our donors are essential to our work; providing us with the means to help the projects support people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. But we want to do more - and your fundraising is the key!

Your support means:

• More food parcels, nutrition and permaculture training for sustainable living
• Increased HIV testing and treatment services
• Greater access to HIV and AIDS services
• Relief for those who care for people living with HIV/AIDS
• Better care for children who are orphaned by AIDS
• Better legal support for people who need grants or government assistance to live sustainably with HIV

Most of all, your donations will provide funding for services that improve the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS. Without your support this work could not continue.

Sisonke project worker having just finished talking to a self-help community group

"We went to the first house where Masie*, 40, is renting a shack in a backyard. Masie is HIV positive and also has MDR (Multidrug resistant) TB. She is on ARV’s and TB treatment. At that moment when we visited her, she is a bedridden person. The Never-Give-Up Home-based care is visiting her every day.

In the second house live brother and sister Yesuto* and Naomi* Klass. They live in one house which is 20 Km from the clinic and the Never-Give-Up support group. Both are HIV positive. Yesuto is in the last stages of AIDS and is terminally sick with bedsores. That is why the care givers visit him every day so that they can support him by washing him and put him in a different position. The care givers bring for him food supplements because he can’t eat.”

Tony Schnell, Des Nokele, Judy Silwana and Ray Magida of the AVERT Sisonke project talk about the importance of the home-based care service. Names have been changed.

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References back to top

1. UNAIDS (2011, November) 'World AIDS Day Report 2011'