Organizations featured in "holding the line..." listed alphabetically and by country, including Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. Learn more about their life-saving work and ways to connect and support.
Ghana
Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC)
Established by Act 938 in 2016, GAC coordinates Ghana’s HIV response across sectors, leading policy, planning, and monitoring. It sets national targets, supports prevention for key populations, and advances the 95-95-95 goals.
Center for Popular Education and Human Rights Ghana (CEPEHRG)
Founded in 1998, CEPEHRG advances HIV awareness and rights for youth and key populations in Ghana. Using education and community theatre, it delivers prevention, self-testing, and ART/PrEP services. Awarded UNDP Red Ribbon Award in 2008.
International Health Care Clinic (IHCC)
Since 1998, IHCC has evolved from hospice care into a community clinic specializing in HIV and infectious diseases. Accredited for ART, it supports 2,000+ clients, offering testing, counseling, and stigma-free care. IHCC is affiliated with WAAF (listed below).
Maritime Life Precious Foundation
Based in Takoradi, Maritime Life Precious Foundation supports vulnerable groups through HIV education, peer support, and stigma reduction. It runs outreach, hotlines, and partnerships for non-stigmatizing STI/HIV services.
West Africa AIDS Foundation (WAAF)
Founded in 1999, WAAF delivers HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and TB services across Ghana. It serves key populations and hard-to-reach groups, including through its affiliated private clinic IHCC (listed above).
Kenya
Health Options for Young Men on HIV/AIDS & STIs (HOYMAS)
Founded in April 2009, HOYMAS serves young men, MSM, sex workers, and people living with HIV in Kenya. They offer HIV/STI testing, care & treatment, psychosocial support, sexual & reproductive health services, advocacy, and outreach, including digital tools to reduce stigma.
Jinsiangu is a Kenyan-based organization founded in 2012 to empower and protect the rights of Intersex, Transgender, and Gender Non-Conforming (ITGNC) individuals. Through advocacy, community support, and partnerships, we strive to build a society that embraces diversity, justice, and bodily autonomy for all.
Mamboleo Peer Empowerment Group (MPEG)
MPEG is an MSM/MSW-led community group in Thika, Kenya focused on human rights, HIV, and sexual health. They run outreach, awareness, peer education, economic empowerment, and work to make clinics more welcoming.
Y+ Kenya was founded in 2018 as a youth-led network supporting adolescents and young people living with or affected by HIV. They provide peer support, promote youth-friendly SRH services, monitor health facility performance, and amplify young voices in HIV policy and advocacy.
Mauritius
Prévention Information Lutte contre le Sida (Pils)
Founded 1996, PILS is a leading Mauritian NGO defending the rights of people living with HIV and key populations. As the Global Fund PR since 2012 and member of Coalition PLUS, it works on prevention, harm reduction, clinic services, and advocacy.
A.I.L.E.S. was founded in 2005 to support key populations in Mauritius affected by HIV, hepatitis C, and drug use. It provides harm reduction (methadone, needle exchange), outreach, psychosocial and legal aid, targeting people who use drugs, sex workers, MSM, and transgender persons.
Centre d’Accueil de Terre Rouge (CATR)
Since 1986, CATR has offered residential rehab for people overcoming drug & alcohol addiction in Mauritius. Under the Diocese of Port-Louis, it runs 9-week rehab programs, motivational and peer support sessions, and social reintegration services to help people rebuild lives.
Collectif Arc en Ciel (Rainbow Collective)
Established in 2005, CAEC is Mauritius’s pioneering LGBTQ civil society organization. It fights stigma and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, provides legal support and HIV services, and implements awareness-raising, advocacy, and community empowerment activities.
Mozambique
AMASI
AMASI is a Mozambican NGO empowering vulnerable communities by promoting sustainable access to water, sanitation, health, and social protection. It works especially in northern coastal provinces (Nampula & Cabo Delgado) to reduce inequity and build hope. AMASI supports Ovarelelana (listed below) to deliver HIV services to children in Mozambique.
Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC)
FDC works to strengthen community capacities across Mozambique, promoting social justice, poverty alleviation, and citizen participation. It drives health communication, HIV stigma reduction campaigns, and collaborates with media and schools to improve public awareness. FDC supports both Lambda and Reencontro (listed below) to deliver HIV services to key populations in Mozambique.
Lambda
LAMBDA is a Mozambican LGBTI organization advocating for the rights and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. It focuses on legal support, stigma reduction, inclusive health services, and safe community spaces.
Ovarelelana Association
Founded in 2010, Ovarelelana is a Mozambican NGO strengthening vulnerable communities—orphans, young women, rural youth—especially those affected by HIV. It works in Nampula, Meconta, Ribaué and other districts in case management, ART retention, HIV-vulnerable youth programs (like DREAMS), savings groups, and HIV prevention.
Reencontro
Since 1998, Reencontro supports orphaned and vulnerable children across Southern Mozambique with services like shelter, education, and psychosocial care. Under Global Fund grants, they also reach female sex workers through HIV outreach: peer education, testing, and prevention. They assist 7,000+ children and key populations with dignity.
Rwanda
Rwanda Network of People Living with HIV (RPP+)
Founded in 2003, RRP+ unites 175+ PLHIV associations in Rwanda to fight stigma, provide peer and psychosocial support, economic training, and linkages to HIV care for over 150,000 people. Both AVEGA and Dream Village (listed below) are members of RRP+.
AVEGA Agahozo
Since 1995, AVEGA supports widows and survivors of the 1994 genocide with health care, legal aid, and economic empowerment. Serving 25,000+ members, it remains a lifeline of healing and hope.
Dream Village
Founded in 2016, Dream Village empowers youth living with HIV through leadership, skills training, and peer support. Their programs reduce stigma, build resilience, and help adolescents thrive.
South Africa
Access Chapter 2 (AC2)
AC2 advances justice, dignity and inclusion for LGBTQIA+, women, and girls in South Africa. They offer safe legal, health and psychosocial services, advocate policy reform, and work via evidence-based research to dismantle systemic barriers.
Soweto HIV/AIDS Counselor Association (SOHACA)
Established in 1998, SOHACA provides sexuality-focused counseling, HIV/STI support, peer education and community outreach in Soweto, Gauteng Province. They work in marginalized urban areas to reduce stigma and strengthen access to care for people living with HIV.
Uganda
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)
Founded in 1987, TASO is Uganda’s pioneering NGO in the HIV/AIDS response. It provides HIV testing, treatment, counseling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), home-based care, psychosocial support and community outreach across multiple districts.
Most At Risk Populations Initiative (MARPI)
The MARPI Clinic in Mulago, Uganda serves key populations—sex workers, people who use drugs, MSM—with HIV prevention, testing, counseling, condoms, and PrEP. It has helped thousands of clients, and acts as a model HIV/STD clinic aligned with public health service guidelines.
Spectrum Uganda Initiatives
Founded in 2004, Spectrum Uganda works with high-risk & marginalized populations in Kampala and nearby districts. They provide HIV education, prevention, and care services; advocate for equitable health access for LGBT people; and strengthen access to health services without discrimination.
Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN)
Established in 2008 by people who use drugs, UHRN is drug-user-led and works nationally in Uganda. It advocates for harm-reduction policies, provides services for people who inject and use drugs (especially youth), and addresses HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and related health risks.