Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane Quotes

Each border in southern Africa has different challenges. However, malaria parasite movement through mobile and migrant populations remains a key challenge for all of us. The new Global Fund grant will support us in working together to tackle this critical cross-border issue.

Changing cultural behaviour is very complex, so we decided to use the aspects of the Swazi culture and the roles of chiefs that could be beneficial. We have had chiefs as champions, who have come forward as living with HIV and encouraged people to test, and to access HIV prevention and treatment.

Fast Tracking ending AIDS will require reaching the hard-to-reach through decentralization of services to where people are using the Gogo centres in every chiefdom, ensuring that no one is left behind.