AIDS Project Tariro is a non-profit organization created to:

• Support and care for persons living with HIV/AIDS and their care-givers in a holistic rehabilitation program with practical education experience

• Help persons  with HIV to live positively by providing antiretroviral medications (ARVs), hope and support and resources to confront death.

• Help families and communities to accept persons living with HIV.

Who will provide the services?
AIDS Project Tariro will be administered by Africa University in partnership with the Old Mutare Mission Hospital of the United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe. It will be supported by Friends of AIDS Project Tariro in US with VIM teams to help establish and renovate facilities for the respite center. Project Tariro is also working in coordination with HOPE HIV/AIDS.

How it works
AIDS Project Tariro will house groups of 24 HIV infected persons and their care-givers. Treatment begins at the respite center for a period of 3 to 6 months with follow up through home-based care. As each group rotates through the program, volunteers will be trained to follow up through a home-based care program. Students from Africa University in agriculture, theology and health sciences will be involved in education and support programs. A faculty member of AU Faculty of Health Sciences will oversee the program.

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