National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed for the period 2000-2005.

• HIV/AIDS policies exist for health, the military and the workplace.

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
National Emergency Response Committee on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA)
Contact person: Dr Derek Von Wissel - Director
Tel: +268 404 2431 / +266 404 1708
Fax: +268 404 1720
Email: /
Website: www.gov.sz

Swaziland National AIDS Programme (SNAP)
Contact person: Dr Velephi Okello - Antiretroviral Therapy Focal Person
P.O. Box 1119, Mbabane, Swaziland
Tel: +268 404 8440/1 / +268 404 5397
Fax: +268 404 8209
Website: www.gov.sz

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. The AIDS Information Support Centre (TASC)
   Contact person: Thandi Nhlengethwa - Director or Harriet Kunene - Head of Programme
   P.O. Box 1279, Manzini, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 505 4790
   Email:
   Website: www.tasc.org.sz
   · HIV/AIDS information, education and communication strategies; mass media HIV/AIDS information dissemination; condom promotion and distribution; voluntary walk-ins for counselling and testing; telephone helpline; training and programme support.

2. Baphalali Swaziland Red Cross Society
   Contact person: Elliot Jele - National Coordinator
   104 Dzeliwe Street
   P.O. Box 377, Mbabane, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 404 2532 / +268 404 49242 / +268 404 0757
   Fax: +268 404 6108
   Email: / /
   · Information; advice; care and support; training, capacity building advocacy; counselling.

3. The Family Life Association of Swaziland (FLAS)
   Contact person: Cedric Musa Mgogo - Executive Director or Dudu Simelane - Deputy Executive Director
   P.O. Box 1051, Manzini, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 505 3082 / +268 505 3086
   Fax: +268 505 3191
   Email:
   Website: www.flas.org.sz
   · Provision of comprehensive and holistic sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services with special focus on youth.

4. FLAS Youth Team
   Contact person: Petros Dlamini - Youth Affairs Manager
   P.O. Box 1051, Manzini, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 505 3082 / +268 505 3088
   Fax: +268 505 3191
   Mobile: + 268 605 3800
   Email:
   Website: www.flas.org.sz
   · Programes for prevention and reduction of unwanted pregnancies; maternal mortality; sexually transmitted infections; unsafe abortion and HIV/AIDS.

5. Hlanganani Help Centre - working with: Municipal HIV/AIDS Team (MHI)
   Contact person: Rhumelele Thwaza
   P.O. Box 418, Manzini, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 505 2481/3
   Fax: +268 505 3992
   · Self help, information; advice; support; advocacy; counselling.

6. Population Services International (PSI)
   Contact person: Babazile Dhlamini - Programme Manager
   CC: Billy Scott
   Manzini M200, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 505 2157/62 5052157
   Fax: +268 505 2130
   Email:
   Website: www.psi.org
   · Uses social marketing to deliver health products, services and information that enable low-income and other vulnerable people to lead healthier lives.

7. Schools HIV/AIDS Population Education
   Contact person: Ms Zanele Dlamini - Director
   P.O. Box 5218, Mbabane, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 404 5066
   Fax: +268 404 5752
   Email: /
   · HIV/AIDS education; information; advice; support; advocacy; counselling

8. Save the Children
   Contact person: Dumsani Mnisi
   P.O. Box 472, Mbabane, Swaziland
   Fax: +268 404 7719
   Email:

9. Swaziland Network of AIDS Support Organisations
   Contact Person: Mr Madzabudzabu Kunene
   P.O. Box 4764
   Mbabane, Swaziland
   Tel: +268 422 1640
   Fax: +268 422 0663
   Email:
   · National network facilitating research, exchange of information, access to resources, policy influence and advocacy, capacity building and providing technical assistance to its members, thus enhancing their capacities to mitigate the spread of HIV.

10. Swaziland Hospice at Home
    Contact person: Thulile Dlamini-Msane
    P.O. Box 23, Matsapha, Swaziland
    Tel: +268 518 4485 / +268 518 6737
    Fax: +268 518 6405
    Email:
    · Care and support; counselling; training for health professionals and the public; bereavement support.

11. Swaziland AIDS Support Organisation (SASO)
    Contact person: Hannie Dlamini
    P.O. Box 6102, Mbabane, Swaziland
    Tel: +268 422 1640 / +268 422 1640
    Fax: +268 422 0663
    Mobile: +268 605 2776
    Email:
    · Self-help; information; education; prevention; advocacy; lobbying; counselling.

12. Swaziland Positive Living for Life
    Contact person: Ms Siphiwe Hlophe
    P.O. Box 2030, Manzini, Swaziland
    Tel: +268 505 7088
    Mobile: +268 605 7782
    Fax: +268 505 8538
    Email: /
    · HIV/AIDS awareness; information; education; prevention; advocacy; lobbying; counselling.

13. UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
    Contact person: Dr Alan Brody
    UNICEF Representative
    P.O. Box 1859, Mbabane, Swaziland
    Tel: +268 407 1000
    Fax: +268 404 5202
    Email:
    Website: www.unicef.org
    · Supports an expanded response and policy advice on preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.

14. UNAIDS Country Coordinator
    Contact person: Ms Mulunesh Tennagashaw
    P.O. Box 261, Mbabane, Swaziland
    Tel: +268 404 8559 / +268 405 0651
    Fax: +268 404 9931
    Email:
    Website: www.unaids.org
    · UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
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Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)

HIV information among antenatal clinic attendees is available from Swaziland since 1992 from sentinel surveillance. Sentinel surveillance is conducted every two years. In 1992, 4 percent of antenatal clinic women tested in Hhohho were HIV positive as well as 4 percent of the women tested outside of Hhohho in Lubombo, Manzini, and Shiselweni. By 2002, 37 percent of antenatal women tested in Hhohho. Nationally, 38.6 percent of women attending antenatal care clinics were HIV positive in 2002.

HIV sentinel surveillance information is available for STD clinic patients since 1992. In Hhohho, HIV prevalence among male STD clinic patients tested increased from 10 percent in 1992 to 53 percent in 1998. Among female patients in Hhohho, HIV prevalence rose from 11 percent in 1992 to 47 percent in 1998. In 2000, among both male and female patients, 49 percent were HIV positive in Hhohho. Outside of Hhohho, HIV prevalence information is available from Lubombo, Manzini and Shiselweni. Median HIV prevalence among male STD clinic patients increased from 12 percent in 1992 to 45 percent in 1998. Among female STD clinic patients, median HIV prevalence in 1998 had reached 50 percent of women tested outside of Hhohho. In 2000, among both male and female patients outside of Hhohho, 51 percent were infected.