Through training and technical assistance , African Services shares its innovative ideas, program design, practical techniques and community mobilization experience with social service providers and NGO counterparts in the U.S and Africa.

Our TA and training curricula are based on over 25 years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating a continuum of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB programs for the African-born. We emphasize the unique role community-based organizations serve in delivering healthcare services and offer culturally-specific and language-specific models for outreach, health information, individual and group-level prevention education; HIV, STD, and TB counseling and testing; case management and risk reduction programs.

For African NGOs working on HIV/AIDS, African Services opens the door to a new framework for peer-to-peer technical assistance--African professional-to-African professional--based on respect for the knowledge, skills, creativity, and dedication of African organizations. We act as a natural bridge between cost-effective health and social services programs produced for Africans in the Diaspora and the African-born around the world. We understand opportunities and constraints in the African context through:

• First-hand understanding of country economic, social and cultural contexts
• Experience scaling up as a community-based HIV/AIDS organization
• Recognition of innovative programs and techniques in resource-poor settings
• Needs assessment of PLWHA and affected communities
• Insight into overcoming stigma as a barrier to care
• Ability to identify viable African organizations and evaluate organizational capacity

Integral to training and TA, we provide the support necessary for NGOs to develop well-trained staff and build strong partnerships with a wide network of other providers and potential funders.

Training and technical assistance is available in the following areas:

Program Planning & Evaluation

Implementing Community Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing (VCT) Programs

Delivery of Community HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention

Developing HIV Risk Reduction Services for Sero-Positive Individuals