Welcome

Since 2002, UVHAA has been successfully implementing outreach programmes to people affected and infected with HIV/AIDS in the communities of the Umdoni and Vulamehlo municipalities, which are located in deeply rural regions of Southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and have apopulation of around 148,000.

 

These remote communities have one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the country.

 

It is well known that Kwazulu Natal has the highest HIV prevalence level of any province in South Africa (itself one of the worst affected countries worldwide). 

 

40.7% of women attending public health clinics tested HIV-positive in 2004. Recent stastics for Umdoni suggest that overall HIV prevalence may be as high as 40%. This is a truly startling figure.

 

The effect on children has been devastating and it is estimated that there are as many as 6,500 orphans living in the area.

 

There are few services available to help these children and the number of young orphaned children living alone has increased dramatically.

Please read though our site to learn more - and please consider whether you are able to offer us a donation, in order to help us to help these desperately disadvantaged communites, where against all odds, hope exists, which our work helps to sustain.

 

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