What we do
SIC provides a comprehensive set of HIV-related services in our target areas in rural Tanzania.
Awareness Campaigns
Led by international and Tanzanian volunteers, the campaigns target rural communities with evidence-based, practical information about HIV and behavior change. In addition to these community level interventions, SIC offers structured service-learning programs for international and Tanzanian volunteers. Volunteers teach to school and community-based groups and catalyze ongoing HIV prevention programs. Over the past six years, our awareness campaigns have taught over 100,000 people.
Peer Educators
SIC empowers outstanding secondary school students to teach their peers about HIV/AIDS and strategies for prevention. With each group of peer educators, we give them 20 hours of training in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and life skills. These peer educators use their own creativity to develop skits, raps, debates, and songs that appeal to students. In primary schools, Fight HIV Clubs adapt the peer model to a younger age set.
Mobile Voluntary Counseling and Testing
Trained counselors provide high-quality counseling and HIV testing at convenient locations in the villages where we work and at individual homes when arranged by SIC staff and community health workers. Testing is always available in conjunction with our awareness campaigns, and at regular intervals on an ongoing basis. We have provided over 60,000 free HIV tests since we began offering this service in late 2003.
Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Treatment Access
SIC trains community members to teach about HIV/AIDS and talk about stigma in their villages. CHWs also assist people living with HIV to access treatment (including antiretrovirals) and are available to assist patients if they become unwell. SIC covers the cost of travel to HIV Care and Treatment Centers and provides patients with basic supplies including mosquito nets, soap, multivitamins,and male and female condoms. Over 900 people living with HIV have registered to receive services through our expansive network of community health workers.
Tuko Pamoja Bags
Our Tuko Pamoja Bags are made by artists who are living with HIV in the rural Tanzanian communities supported by SIC’s HIV/AIDS services.
By purchasing a Tuko Pamoja Bag you are giving these talented artists an opportunity use their skills to provide better nutrition and education for their families.
Additionally, your purchase will allow these artists to create a shared fund together with their HIV positive support groups. This fund will be used to pursue other income generating projects such as building a chicken coop or starting a community garden.
Tuko pamoja kuushinda UKIMWI! – We are united in the fight against AIDS!
