Association African Solidarité (A.A.S.)

Mission

Non Governmental Organization(NGO) helping people living with AIDS/HIV, assuming responsibility for people living with HIV/AIDS and the orphans and the children vulnerable to AIDS in the medical and psychosocial field. AAS opened the center OASIS in 1998, a premier day center of Burkina Faso for people living with HIV in Ouagadougou.

Programs

-Medical and psychosocial accompaniment of 1020 adults living VIH/SIDA and 500 Orphans and children of the VIH/SIDA through the centre OASIS. -Creation of income-generating activities of returned people living with AIDS (1 Cybercafé K@pot.com and Café Santé : 19 Kiosks with Ouagadougou) -Execution of a program of AIDS prevention in direction of sex professional. -Installation and animatiom of the first Radio Santé FM of Burkina faso in the town of Zorgho-110 km from Ouagadougou.

Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Burkina Faso: Support Adults Living with HIV

Personnel Overview

Issoufou Tiendrebeogo - Activity Coordinator
Ashoka Innovator, Administrator of Aidseti.org, member of "conseil national de lutte contre le SIDa du Burkina Faso » co-founder in 1991 of AAS and continues to pleas for a greater # of African people to have access to anti-retroviral treatment. The action made it possible to increase the number of people profiting from ARV from 12 in 1999 to 118 today.

Personnel Statistics

Issoufou Tiendrebeogo,
Activity Coordinator
Founded in 1993
Employees: 53
Volunteers: 16