National Programme against AIDS (Programme National de Lutte Contre le Sida)
Contact person: Dr Francois Lepira
B.P. 5806, Kinshasa
Tel: +243 88 016 44
Fax: +243 88 436 75
Email:

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. Espoir Vie et Solidarite
   Contact person: Dominique Mbuyi
   Rue Bukeye No. 5 Matonge / Kalamu
   Kinshasa 6164 Kin 6
   Tel: +243 98 41 27 45
   Email: /
   ˇ Support of orphaned and vulnerable children and their families; fund raising; awareness.

2. Central Network of AIDS Service Organisations (CANASO)
   Contact person: Henri Mukumbi
   B.P. 9030, Kinshasa
   Tel: +243 68 57 01
   Email:
   ˇ Network of the 9 HIV/AIDS national networks in the 9 Central African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Tchad. Its mission is to enhance the community response to HIV/AIDS in Central Africa by promoting the development and existence of sustainable and effective country networks that provide leadership and capacity building in advocacy, programme development, and enhanced greater involvement of people living with HIV and AIDS.

3. Association Femmes Plus
   Contact person: Philomene Wenge
   B.P. 12605, Kinshasa 1
   Tel: +243 99 111 62 / 98 20 22 69
   Fax: +243 88 436 75
   Email: / /
   ˇ Medical care; advice; training; home and hospital visits; counselling; advocacy and awareness raising; material support; income generation.

4. Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) - DRC
   Contact person: Aimé Mwadi Kadi
   B.P. 2556, Kinshasa 1
   Tel: +243 88 008 40
   ˇ Training; home and hospital visits; counselling; advocacy and awareness raising.

5. UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
   Contact person: Dr Pierre Somse
   WHO Representative
   Kinshasa, DRC
   Tel: +243 81 882 36 17
   Email:

6. UNAIDS Country Programme Adviser
   Contact person: Dr. Pierre Somse
   Tel: +243 99 056 76

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)

Although a system of HIV sentinel surveillance among women attending antenatal care clinics was established in 1985, sentinel surveys have not been conducted regularly and sites have not been used consistently. Efforts are ongoing to strengthen surveillance.

In women attending ANCs in 2002, HIV prevalence ranged from 3.0% in Kinshasa to 4.4% in Mbuji-Mayi. In the 1999 sentinel surveillance, HIV prevalence among women attending antenatal care clinics ranged from 0.6% in Mikalayi to 8.6 % in Sendwe. HIV prevalence rates among women attending antenatal care clinics in Kinshasa were 6.9% in 1985, 5.7% in 1987, 10.8% in 1992 and 5.4% in 1999. From 1992 to 1999, HIV prevalence rates in Kisangani remained between 3.0% and 5.6%. In Mbuji-Mayi, HIV prevalence among women attending antenatal care clinics was 6.3% in 1997 and 4.8% in 2002. However, prevalence rates seem to be increasing in Lubumbashi, from 2.7% in 1989 to 4.7% in 1997, and to 8.5% in 1999.

HIV prevalence rates among sex workers in Kinshasa have fluctuated between 26.8% in 1985, 38.0% in 1989, 29.0% in 1997 and 22.2% in 2002.