SAHA hosts World AIDS Campaign (WAC)

The World AIDS Campaign aims to ensure that AIDS leaders and decision makers keep their promises on AIDS. Driven by a range of global AIDS networks, the campaign focus on AIDS both locally and internationally. The campaign brings together faith, labour, youth, women, positive networks, NGOs, academia and other constituencies within common advocacy and mobilisation efforts.

The WAC works independantly of any government or UN agency to stenghten global and local civil society actions through a variety of advocacy and mobilisation efforts. Locally led and rooted within a number of constituency based networks, the campaign focusses on one of the most important AIDS policy commitments of our times. Together, all the groups within WAC puts pressure on governments, international agencies and others to deliver universal access to AIDS treatment, care and prevention services by 2010.

WAC has an international remit, with a small support staff group based in Amsterdam. Its partners range from large international organisations to small NGOs. The HSRC as a partner organisation agreed to host their operations in South Africa. The WAC recognise the vital role academia plays in the fight against HIV and AIDS and will continue to collaborate with the HSRC through 2007, linking efforts on a national and international level.