CWS Timor Leste

	Church World Service in East Timor
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Ongoing activities

At present, CWS Timor Leste focus more on HIV/AIDS related issues. Our programs revolves around the following matters:

1) Education/Advocacy
CWS will educate and mobilize its network of member communions by offering timely and accurate material on stigma and discrimination, and on addressing the needs of the most vulnerable. CWS will collaborate with partners to ensure continual information exchange, expand efforts to bringing to light the real stories of communities addressing the root causes of HIV/AIDS, and their prevention, care, treatment, and impact mitigation interventions on the ground.
Advocacy efforts with partners will center on: (a) Combating stigma; and (b) Free universal access for HIV/AIDS medication

2) Capacity-building of local partners
CWS provides accompaniment and support to partners working on HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-related issues in East Timor. The emphasis is on institutional strengthening and capacity- building.

3) Services for Prevention, Care, and Treatment Based upon the needs voiced by partners or identified by CWS staff
CWS provides grants and technical assistance for the following services: to support community-based strategies that target vulnerable populations; people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS; to mobilize and focus the human and financial resources of churches and faith-based organizations; and to address the larger social, economic, and spiritual context of HIV/AIDS in East Timor.

World AIDS Campaign 2004: "Without Voice, Choice: How Can We Protect Ourselves?"

At present, we are conducting our "World AIDS Campaign 2004" as part of our commitment in fighting AIDS.

CWS Indonesia World AIDS Day campaigns aim to act as a catalyst for community action and to change behavior, opinion and attitudes of individuals involved.

This year, the year-long campaign, culminating in World AIDS Day on 1 December is focused on Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS - it explores how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic, and the day encourages people to address female vulnerability to HIV.

CWS Indonesia will focus on 'giving voice and choices to women and girls to protect them from HIV/AIDS,' (our strapline is: "Without Voice, Choice: How Can We Protect Ourselves?") and seek to raise awareness about, and help address, the many issues affecting women and girls around HIV/AIDS.

Through this campaign we are also encouraging men and boys' involvement to protect themselves and their partners from HIV infection.