Community-Based Organizations Step Up to Confront HIV in Southern States

Grassroots community organizations’ contribution to the scale-up of HIV testing and counselling services in Zimbabwe

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether community engagement (participation in grassroots organizations) contributed to increases in HIV testing in Zimbabwe. METHODS Prospective data on membership of local community organizations (e.g. women's groups and burial societies) and uptake of HIV testing and counselling (HTC) and prevention-of-mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services were collected fr...

Impact of Community-Based Organizations for People Living with HIV

Why reinvent the wheel? Leveraging the lessons of HIV scale-up to confront non-communicable diseases.

The dramatic scale-up of HIV services in lower-income countries has led to the development of service delivery models reflecting the specific characteristics of HIV and its treatment as well as local contexts and cultures. Given the shared barriers and challenges faced by health programmes in lower-income countries, many of the implementation approaches developed for HIV programmes have the pot...

Women’s Community-Based Organizations, Conservation Projects, and Effective Land Control in Southern Mexico

This paper examines outcomes for women’s effective land control from engagement of women’s agricultural community-based organizations (CBOs) with conservation projects in southern Mexico. Through ethnography and interviews with one hundred women in three communities, the author assesses whether women’s organization, as a response to availability of project resources, has led to increased access...

Faith-Based Organizations In Community Development