Support Groups

DESCRIPTION OF SUPPORT GROUPS

If five or more people infected or affected come together to form a PLWHAs (People Living with HIV AIDS) it is a support group.

One of the Network strategies is to encourage people who have been informed about their sero-positive status to join or be part of a PLWHA support group nearest to them.

A support group can:

• Help people feel they are not isolated and alone with problems

• Provide away to meet people and make friends

• Help individuals to become more confident and powerful

• Provide a basis to organise activities led by members

• Make links of people living in different backgrounds

• Help to share resources, ideas and information

• Make others in the community more aware of the situation facing people in the group

• Lead to change by creating a public or political voice

The network thus believes the only way to helping PLWHA is to support one another through sharing experiences of coping with and living with the virus by way of living positively through:

• Good nutrition

• Practicing safe sex

• On going counselling

The network organises training workshops for them on:

• Survival skills

• Leadership skills

• Administrative and adherence of the ARV

• PMTCT

• IPT

• Community based care

• Supportive counselling

• Income generation activities

Click here to see instructions on how to join.

Support Groups - Management Guidelines

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