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Programme officer at the embassy: Ria Schoeman

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Utvecklingssamarbete / Development Cooperation

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HIV and AIDS

HIV/AIDS is perhaps the most serious threat to South Africa's social, economic and human development. Preventing and mitigating the effects of the epidemic is a priority in Swedish development cooperation with South Africa. As such, HIV/AIDS remain a focus area for targeted interventions in the recently adopted Swedish strategy for South Africa.

Sweden supports organisations working to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS and gender based violence - two areas that are often interrelated. Swedish support in the area of HIV/AIDS amounts to approximately 40 million Swedish kronor per year.

Examples of HIV and AIDS organisations that receive Swedish support are the Zivikele Training, The AIDS Foundation of SA, Treatment Action Campaign and the AIDS Law Project.

Sweden also co-funds the Swedish Workplace HIV/AIDS programme (SWHAP) which involves thirteen Swedish-related companies in South Africa.

> Read more about the Swedish HIV/AIDS Workplace Programme

In addition, Sweden is also co-funding the "Trucking Wellness" initiative, which provides education, care and support to truck drivers and sex workers, groups highly at risk of being infected with HIV.

Sweden chairs the EU+ working group on HIV/AIDS, which is a collaboration of bilateral and multilateral development partners, as well as other relevant organisations that seeks to ensure that development partners collectively provide the most effective assistance possible, and apply the communities we work in to effective aid, as embodied in the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action

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