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| Organization Type: | NGO - International Health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The African Salvation Group Corp. (ASG) is a Bronx-based 501(c)(3) Health and Human Service nonprofit organization. ASG's purpose is to promote health education, risk reduction, prevention and stigma; and offer opportunities to improve educational levels, gain job-related skills, and build personal and community capacity. Founded in 2002 by Felly Katalay, the African Salvation Group has transformed itself into an implementing and service organization. ASG provides direct services to the communities in need and support to local human service groups. We also provide expertise, knowledge and skills from field experience to support other organizations, often as part of a scale-up strategy. At present, the African Salvation Group is simultaneously implementing its programs in New York City, USA and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our work is supported through a network of outstanding individuals, US and world government agencies and private organizations. Core values:Trust, Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility Vision:"Help Communities Break the Vicious Cycle of Poverty and Live Healthy Lives" Main Activities: Health: Health Education/Risk Reduction; Counseling, testing and referral service (CTR); and Prevention Interventions services targeting under-served and high-risk population through public outreach, counseling, and referral services. Human services: job development, support to education (training), rehabilitation, food security, information and referral services. Goals: Educate people about basic facts about HIV/AIDS, STD, TB and Malaria, transmission routes, prevention, risk reduction, and available treatment Raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, STD, TB, and Malaria symptoms, dispel myths about HIV, and fight HIV/TB stigma Promote VCT centers through client referral or direct access to testing after the workshops (provision of pre/post counseling is mandatory) Implement client case management, DOTS, on-site/home drug in-take supervision, and provide care/drug provision, education to caregivers Medical appointment escort service for disabled HIV/TB patients and pregnant women during labor complication (emergency only) Support PLWA and HIV/AIDS affected children and families (counseling, food/drug provision, and children education) Empower under-served communities in New York and in sub-Saharan Africa in terms to help them break the vicious cycle of poverty through our support to education, job development, and the provision of food security. Accomplishments: In New York City, ASG HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB awareness workshops has reached 318 people in addition to more than one thousand people reached through its street outreach activities, publications, newsletters, flyers, web site and invitations cards. Whereas the ASG Education/Preventionoutreach in the DR Congo has reached more than 3000 people including 833 people through interpersonal meetings and small group-level workshops in Kinshasa. ASG support to education in the DR Congo translated in sponsoring the tuition fees of 10 children in early 2003 and the distribution of school supplies to 1056 students of the EP 4 Bambous in Masina/Kinshasa. For its emergency food provision project, ASG has delivered more than 2,000 kilos of food to various impoverished communities throughout the year 2003. Since August 2003, ASG has partnered with AMO Congo, a Kinshasa local organization, whose VTC counselors intervene at the end of each ASG small group-level workshop to provide voluntary counseling and testing to workshops participants. Of all referral to AMO Congo, there has been an average of 40% of the participants who volunteer to take HIV test and we have recorded 7.29% HIV prevalence. |
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| Which Working Group(s) will you participate in: | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No of staff who are directly involved with TB: | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Which country are you based in: | United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Which country/ies do you do operate in: | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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