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Organisation: Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking - HIVAN
Contact Person:Cheryl Coombes???Telephone:+27 31 260 3334

Description: HIVAN's primary purpose is to promote, conduct, and build capacity for research that is responsive to, and contributes to alleviating the circumstances of, people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. By connecting multidisciplinary scholarship with the immediate needs and problems of health-care providers, civil society organisations, and communities, and by making relevant information accessible to them, HIVAN strives to enhance the quality of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment in both the formal and informal public health systems.

Organisation: Centre For Human Rights
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Description: The Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, focus primarily on human rights law in Africa. Highlights in its history since the Centre was established in 1986 include the involvement of members of the Centre in the writing of the South African Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the contribution the Centre has made to legal education in respect of human rights on the continent through its academic programmes and research outputs. Members of the Centre have served as consultants on human rights issues to a range of institutions, including the Organisation of African Unity/African Union, NEPAD, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the South African Human Rights Commission.

Organisation: Centre for Positive Care
Contact Person:Mashudu Madadzhe???Telephone:

Description: The Centre for Positive Care is involved in home-based care, peer counselling, orphans and vulnerable children and facilitating support groups in four districts in Limpopo.

Organisation: Centre for Public Participation
Contact Person:Neli Khuzwayo or Janine Hicks???Telephone:+27 31 261 9001

Description: The Centre for Public Participation is an independent non-partisan organisation contributing towards the building of an empowered civil society engaging actively with accessible and accountable structures and processes of government. Through its monitoring, lobbying, research and capacity building programmes, it strives to ensure that the government policy and legislative processes are transparent, accessible and accountable.

Organisation: Centre for Rural Legal Studies
Contact Person:Mzukisi Mooi???Telephone:+2721 883 8032

Description: The Centre for Rural Legal Studies promotes the land and labour interests of men and women farm workers in the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape through training, information dissemination, research, advocacy, legal intervention and development facilitation.

Organisation: Centre for Social Work - University of KwaZulu Natal
Contact Person:Prof V Sewpaul???Telephone:+27 31 260 1241

Description: A leading School in the promotion of citizenship education, innovative research and social work practice excellence in SA, in pursuit of enhanced Psycho-social functioning and development of individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities and the promotion of Peace, Human Rights, Social Justice and Equality of all people.

Organisation: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies - University of KwaZulu Natal
Contact Person:Lindy Coetzee???Telephone:+27 31 260 1291

Description: The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is based at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban. CSLS provides Human Rights Law, Democracy and Education to schools and broad communities, targeting youth, youth prisoners, women and teachers and the community at large. CSLS have completed material development for HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and the Law Project.

Organisation: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
Contact Person:Professor Salim S Abdool Karim???Telephone:+27 31 260 4548

Description: CAPRISA main goals are to: undertake globally relevant and locally responsive research that contributes to understanding HIV pathogenesis and epidemiology as well as the nexus between tuberculosis and AIDS care; to provide training through research fellowships tenable both in South Africa and the USA and build local research infrastructure through cores of expertise.

Organisation: Centre for the Study of AIDS - Hammanskraal Satellite
Contact Person:Nkateko Solly Shirinda???Telephone:+27 12 711 3186

Description: We offer capacity building to the NGOs with HIV/AIDS related programmes . We coordinate research and Study on HIV/AIDS.

Organisation: Centre for the Study of AIDS - Nelspruit
Contact Person:Easter Kunene???Telephone:+27 12 420 4391ext 4490

Description: This is a satellite campus for the University of Pretoria. The centre provides HIV/AIDS training for youths, NGOs and communities.