Promises, promises: Has funding totally dried up for South Africa's rape crisis centres? Bhekisisa_MG reports. SGBV
is struggling to stay afloat after it lost Global Fund money — even after it retrenched almost a third of its 65-person staff, says TVEP legal officer Masikhwa Tshilidzi.
South Africa’s HIV strategy commits the country to an ambitious target of testing 10-million people each year for HIV — it’s part of . As of 2016, about 76% of adults in the country had tested for HIV, Yogan Pillay told Bhekisisa. Pillay is the national health department’s deputy director general for communicable and noncommunicable disease.
As with previous grants, support for NGO counselling at TCCs under South Africa’s current Global Fund grant is being channelled through Nacosa and Aids Foundation of South Africa. These larger organisations will, in turn, funnel money down to smaller non-profits — and some NGOs are still in negotiations with the pair for this kind of money. Nacosa and the foundation did not say how many centres they were likely to fund in the future.
She says she tried to apply for funding from the provincial department of social development. When no one picked up the phone to answer her calls, she got into her car and drove to the department’s premises.She was told that the department was closed because there was no water and electricity in the area.
“Some provinces are more generous than others and some give more to [victim] empowerment than others.”
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