Support for International Change

Support for International Change (SIC) has been working in northern Tanzania since 2002 to limit the impact of HIV/AIDS in rural communities. The first two $10,000 grants (2008, 2009) from the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation were used to expand SIC’s Community-Based Treatment Access Project. This project consists of 4 community-based services: 1) mobile provision of Voluntary Counseling and Testing, 2) reproductive health education and HIV prevention workshops, 3) establishment of HIV support groups, and 4) mobile provision of antiretroviral drugs in conjunction with government hospitals. The program, over the 2 year span, taught and/or tested 79,614 persons about HIV/AIDS, trained 150 Community Health Workers (CHW), and provided care for 600 persons with HIV. The third $10,000 grant (2010-11) was used to support a group of local-based college student volunteers, embedding them within the rural communities to enhance the education and treatment network.  (www.sichange.org)