One to One Children's Fund is supporting the treatment of 4000 HIV-infected children in South Africa, and is helping 60,000 more children through its Africa-wide PATA network of more than 100 multi-disciplinary clinic teams. To read more on the PATA network initiative, click here.
In March, the Palestinian and Israeli experts who jointly run the counselling project visited London, presenting team work at the Tavistock Clinic and to Parliamentary groups. They also raised funds for a pilot project in three primary schools in Israel and Palestine. More information on their visit is available here.
One to One Children's Fund runs two counselling centres in Kosovo, which help children and parents suffering the psychological consequences of political turmoil and war.
The counselling centres also do outreach work, helping families in 50 villages and 35 schools across Kosovo.
In May 2008, One to One Children's Fund entered into a partnership agreement with the Kosovo government to run counselling training courses for social workers to meet the growing need for professional counselling services among the people in Kosovo. For more information on our latest monitoring visit to Kosovo please go to our project page.
One to One Children's Fund runs a number of projects across South Africa that treat and provide support to HIV-infected children.
In the Western Cape, we have entered into a partnership with the provincial government to help support the treatment of more than 2500 infected children at Groote Schuur Hospital and a number of orphanages and clinics in the region.
In the Eastern Cape, we have helped set up fully-equipped HIV/AIDS treatment units for children at two hospitals, where we employ trained healthcare professionals to run a life-saving anti-retroviral treatment support programme for more than 1000 children.
One to One Children's Fund is organising a remarkable trek to Mount Kilimanjaro in February 2010. Alternatively, you can join us for the Maasai trek across the floor of the Great Rift Valley right to the foothills of the Crater Highlands with the Maasai as your guides in October 2009. Or you can discover for One to One the largely unexplored Simien Mountains in Ethiopia also in October 2009.
Register now and raise money for children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
World AIDS Day 2008: the 4th PATA Forum was held in Rwanda from 25-29 November 2008. The conference themes this year included "care of the very young infant", as recent research shows that 60% of children born with HIV will die before they reach the age of 2, unless they have access to appropriate treatment.
The Forum also focused on the role of nutrition in treating HIV-infected children and on special difficulties faced by children and their carers in conflict areas.
43 clinic teams, which included nutritionists for the first time, from 17 African countries participated in the forum this year and set their goals for the coming year. For further information on the PATA Forum, please go to www.teampata.org.
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