
Family Free
Anova’s Family Free project aims to improve healthcare services through awareness and education in the rural Mopani district in Limpopo, South Africa. Founded in 2008, the project is funded by Orange Babies Netherlands and works alongside Anova’s Limpopo-based Khutšo Kurhula team. The project’s main focuses are to raise awareness within the community and to provide educational and psychosocial support. The children’s psychosocial support programme aimed at HIV-positive children, is the first of its kind in Limpopo that offers this kind of support. The children meet at the facilities monthly when they come to collect their antiretroviral (ART) medication. When they do this, Family Free provides age-specific relevant information about taking medication and to motivate the kids to be healthy. The project also focuses in the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV and new HIV infections in adolescents as well as educating HIV-positive children and their caregivers.