The Stephen Lewis Foundation works with community-based organizations addressing the intersection of sexual violence and HIV and AIDS. These organizations deal with crisis situations and provide urgent medical care, counselling and expert assistance on the ground.
They are also supporting the creation, by frontline activists, of the African Institute for Integrated Responses to Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (AIR). The Institute is unlike anything else that exists on the continent: imagine a dynamic, mobile, expert response team of women, ready to assist other women and organizations throughout Africa, armed with expertise in counselling and trained to assist frontline workers, counsellors, nurses and doctors. The Institute will also serve as a much-needed forum for advocates to come together to exchange new ideas, approaches and lessons learned around sexual violence and AIDS. Visit the AIR website to learn more.
To watch a video message from Stephen Lewis about sexual violence and HIV/AIDS, click here.
