From 1997, as treatments were arriving in the North, the French association AIDES introduced international action programmes based on partnerships with local associations fighting against AIDS in Africa. These actions were mainly aimed at reinforcing the associations’ ability to carry out prevention and treatment projects to help people living with HIV/AIDS from a medical, psychological and social welfare point of view.

The programmes led to the setting-up of a network of 17 associations from 9 countries (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ivory Coast, France, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo) and showed the feasibility of giving access to antiretroviral treatments in the African countries.

Since 1997, the 17 associations have formed the Africa Network 2000, a platform for North-South and South-South exchanges of associative expertise. In addition to creating theme-based groups, Africa Network 2000 also has the role of offering training courses to its members and providing them with individual technical support.

The French association AIDES acts as a facilitator in implementing these activities, partly financed by the support programme for the community mobilisation of MAAIONG agreement (Mission of Support for the International Action of the NGOs), the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (www.diplomatie.gouv.fr); AIDES donors and Pfizer Laboratories.


    In 2002, the ARCAD/AIDS association, a member of Africa Network 2000, opened a training centre in Bamako with the support of AIDES. The centre is known as “Donya” (which means “knowledge” in Bambara) and aims to train the human resources required at the West African sub-regional level in order to move to the scale and decentralisation of global AIDS treatment activities.


·    demonstrated the feasibility of providing quality care for people living with HIV through local associations;
·    strengthened collaboration between people living with HIV and health professionals;
·    broadened treatment for transmission from mother to child to family care;
·    encouraged communities to mobilise to preserve the dignity of infected people.

The accumulation of good associative practices in the field of global care led to the publication in October 2001 of a guide entitled “Associative responses to the fight against AIDS in Africa” , and, in July 2004, of a guide on twinning, “Twinning: an inter-associative mutual support approach”, which may be downloaded in English and French. In addition, in 2003, MILAN published “AIDS in Africa” in partnership with AIDES, in the Les Essentiels collection.

 

The success of Africa Network 2000 encouraged other associations in Central Africa to contact AIDES with a view to a similar partnership. In 2005, AIDES organised a cycle of exploratory missions in Central Africa to identify new partners in the sub-region.

Using the experience of its international partnerships in Africa Network 2000, AIDES put forward a project to mobilise the organisations involved and to circulate associative expertise in order to improve the quality of global care being offered to HIV sufferers (including antiretroviral treatments) in 8 Central African countries (Cameroon, CAR, Gabon, DRC, Chad, Rwanda, Burundi and Congo-Brazzaville). 

The new partners in Central Africa met in March 2006 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to validate the principle of working together along the lines of the model for exchanges used in Africa Network 2000.

1)    investment in human resources through the training of association staff
2)    the construction of an argument (local, regional, international) in favour of universal, free access to quality care including ARV treatments
3)    the structuring and development of associations to encourage greater involvement in the fight.

THE TOOLS offered by AIDES in association with Africa Network 2000 are:
-annual strategic theme-based workshops
-group training several times a year
-individual technical support, including support missions


All of AIDES’ partners in Africa are also partners of the ELSA platform, (“Let’s Work Together to fight AIDS in Africa www.plateforme-elsa.org) of which AIDES is one of the five founder members.

• Association Laafi La Viim (ALAVI)

01 BP 4664Ouagadougou 01
Tél/fax. :  +226 50 39 74 56
E-mail : alavi95@hotmail.com- M. Issouf SAWADOGO – Président
- M. Adjima Narcisse OUOBA – Directeur

• Association African Solidarity (AAS)

01 BP 2831
Ouagadougou 01
Tél. :  +226 50 31 01 47
Fax : +226 50 30 48 22
E-mail : aas@fasonet.bf
Site internet : www.aasbf.org
-M. Issoufou TIENDREBEOGO – Président
-Mme Aoua N’GARDOUMI KONE – Directrice

• Association REVS+ (Responsabilité Espoir Vie Solidarité)

01 BP 382
Bobo Dioulasso
Tél/ fax :  +226 20 97 72 77 / +226 20 97 05 17
E-mail : revs@fasonet.bf
- Mme Martine SOMDA – Présidente
- Mme Brigitte PALENFO – Secrétaire Générale

BURUNDI

• Association Nationale de Soutien aux Séropositifs et Sidéens du Burundi (ANSS - Burundi)

Quartie Kigobe, BP 4152
Bujumbura
Tél. : + 257 21 59 77 / + 257 24 15 01
Fax : +257 24 98 03
E-mail : anss@usan-bu.net
Site internet : www.anss.bi
- Mme Jeanne GAPIYA NIYONZIMA – Présidente
- Mme Marie-Josée MBUZENAKAMWE –Directrice

CAMEROUN

• AFASO Association des Femmes Actives et SOlidaires

BP 30645
Yaoundé
Tél. : +237 780 75 70
Fax : +237 221 74 36
afasocm@yahoo.fr
- Mme Pauline Mounton - Présidente
- Mme Hedwige TCHOKOKAM - Coordinatrice

• Colibri

BP 1346
Bafoussam
Tél. / Fax : +237 344 13 44
E-mail : colibri_002@yahoo.com
- M. Jean Jules Kamgue – Président

• AFSUPES

BP 17744 New-Bell
Douala
Tel : +237 985 99 06
Fax : +237 343 33 60
E-mail : ubsa_afsu_dla@yahoo.fr
-M. maurice Abina – Président

CONGO (République du)

• AJPC (Association des Jeunes Positifs du Congo)

1691, rue Matsiona Nzoulou Batignol
Brazzaville
E-mail : assojpc@yahoo.fr
-Mme Valérie MOUELLET ESMO – Présidente

COTE D’IVOIRE

• Association Lumière Action

14 - BP 2101
Abidjan 14
Tél/Fax : +225 24 39 73 12
E-mail : lumaction94@yahoo.fr
Site internet : http://isuisse.ifrance.com/lumiereaction/
- Mme Catherine SIE – Présidente
- Mme Nathalie SADIA – Directrice

• Association Ruban Rouge

22 BP 1291
Abidjan 22
Tél. :  +225 23 45 3510
Fax : +225 23 45 35 08
Site internet : www.rubanrouge.ci.cf
E-mail : rubanrougeci@yahoo.fr
- M. Raoul Marius BOKA – Président
- Mme Isabelle ASSOUAN – Directrice

• Association Amepouh

03 BP 1916
Abidjan 03
Tél. :  +225 23 51 98 74
E-mail : amepower@yahoo.fr
-Mme Christine GOHNI – Présidente
-Mme Lydie AKESSE – Vice-Présidente

• Association Renaissance Santé Bouaké (RSB)

BP 1233
Yamoussoukro
Tél. :  +225 31 63 80 83 / 30 64 75 99
Fax : +225 31 63 05 40
E-mail : diomandeouohi@yahoo.fr
-M. Ouohi DIOMANDE – Président 

 

GABON

• SIDA ZERO

BP 13 736
Libreville
E-mail : sidazero@caramail.com
-Mme Perpétue NDONG – Présidente

GUINEE

• ASFEGMASSI 

BP 713
Conakry
Tel : +224 60 21 75 60
E-mail :  asfegmassi@yahoo.fr
-Mme Bintou BAMBA – Présidente
-M. Youssouf KOITA – Coordinateur

MALI

• ARCAD Sida (Association de Recherche, Communication et Accompagnement à Domicile des Personnes vivant avec le VIH)

BPE 2561
Bamako
Tél +223 223 72 59
Fax : +223 222 49 13
E-mail : arcadsida@arcadsida.org
-M. Aliou SYLLA – Président
-Mme Bintou Dembele KEITA – Directrice

• Kénédougou Solidarité

BP 365
Rue 44, porte 1210, Wayerma I
Sikasso
Tel/fax : +223 262 14 33
N° vert : +262 16 56
E-mail : ksolidarite@yahoo.fr   et  kenesol@buroticservices.net.ml
-M. Mohamed TOURE – Président 

NIGER

• Association Mieux Vivre avec le Sida (MVS)

BP 2217
Niamey
Tél/fax :  +227 20 75 48 66
E-mail : mvs@intnet.ne et cedav@intnet.ne
-M. Abdoulaye Soumana – Président
-M. Abdou ADAMOU – Directeur

RCA

• AHVV+  Association des hommes vivant avec le VIH

B/P .1721
Bangui
Tel : + 236 06 68 80 / 04 63 93
E-mail : mozialo_luc@yahoo.fr
-M. Luc NVENDO MOZIALO – Président

• CNJFV+  Congrès national des jeunes femmes VIH

B/P .2907
Bangui
Tel : +236 05 34 68E-mail : congres20012000@yahoo.fr
-Mme Donatienne FETIA – Présidente

RDC

• ACS/AMO Congo

10, av. Assossa
C/Kasa-Vubu
BP 67 Kin 1
Kinshasa
Tél. : +243 998 66 48 41 / 84 72 100 
E-mail : amocongordc@ic.cd
-Dr Henri MUKUMBI - Directeur National

• Fondation Femmes Plus

Av. Lukelenge
C/ Ngiri-Ngiri
Kinshasa
Tél : +243 99 99 111 62
E-mail : femmeplus_rdc@yahoo.fr 
-Mme Thècla Bernadette MULELEBWE – Directrice nationale

SENEGAL

• Association Bok Jef (Agir Ensemble)

BP 16760
Dakar Fann
Tel +221 825 06 62
E-mail : bokkjeff@yahoo.fr
-M. N’Déné SYLLA – Président

TCHAD

• ASEPVV

C/C CEDIAM
BP 456
N'Djamena
fax : +235 6 517 444
E-mail : asepvv_td@yahoo.fr
-M. Célestin FABDOUBE LADIBA - Président

• ACCPVV

BP 150
MoundouE-mail : bekissimgoto@yahoo.fr
M. Gilbert BEKISSIMGOTO – Président

TOGO

• Association Aides Médicales et Charité (AMC)

04 BP 145
Lomé 04
Tel : +228 251 26 47
Fax : +228 251 26 57
E-mail : amc_lome@yahoo.fr
-M.Nicolas BAITE – Président
-M. Kwami Eugène NOVON – Directeur 

• Association Espoir Vie Togo (EVT)

BP 14 543
Lomé
Tel : +228 251 46 56
Fax : +228 251 60 79
E-mail :  espoirvietogo@laposte.tg
-M. Godefroy LAWSON GAYSER – Président