CAP AIDS' Goals:

• Reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
• Provide relief, treatment, and comfort to people living with AIDS.
• Help orphans, families, and communities cope with the effects of AIDS.
• Promote and protect the human rights of people and communities affected by HIV/AIDS.

About

CAP AIDS' mission is to help Africans resist, survive and overcome the HIV+AIDS pandemic in Africa.

How We Work:
CAP AIDS works in partnership with community-based organizations in Africa. By partnering with community based organizations CAP AIDS is able to learn from them what the HIV+AIDS related needs and priorities are in their communities.

CAP AIDS believes that nobody knows better what is needed than the dedicated people who are actually engaged in work on the front lines in the battle against the HIV+AIDS pandemic. Once needs and priorities have been identified, CAP AIDS engages these partners to implement projects that respond to the unique priorities of their communities, through the provision of technical (skills and capacity building), transportation assistance (bikes) and financial resources.

The people of Africa are banding together in great numbers to take matters into their hands - offering compassionate home-based care to people dying with AIDS, providing support and new homes to orphans and leading innovative, courageous and vitally important prevention and treatment campaigns in communities throughout Africa. These small groups are making miracles happen with funds so little it would make us blush.

FACT: It takes 5.5 minutes to spend $1 Million in Canada's health care system. In Zambia, $1 Million needs to last 2.5 weeks.

There is no shortage of effective community based organizations in Africa. There is however, a shortage of resources and funding, and small organizations are often overlooked by the international community. It is by supporting the efforts of community-based organizations that CAP AIDS can have the biggest impact on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.

One of the greatest threats to the people affected by HIV+AIDS is that they do not have a voice. HIV disproportionately affects youth, women, the poor and those living in rural areas. The voices of women, youth and the poor are often silenced throughout the world. The needs and problems of these groups don't make it onto the global agenda. Compounding the problem is that AIDS itself is silencing. The shame, judgment and stigma that accompany a diagnosis of HIV is so great that even the most courageous and confident find it difficult to disclose their status - let alone scream out from the rooftops that they need, deserve and have a right to care and protection. People who die of AIDS too-often do so quietly, on their own, ashamed and filled with fear for their surviving children and loved ones. In addition to supporting African organizations, CAP AIDS strives to serve as a voice for those who are being silenced.