Care Work Policy Development hanbook

The plight of care providers looking after people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) has increasingly gained prominence in recent years but much work still needs to be done to ensure that their concerns are adequately addressed at policy making and legal levels.  In 2006 GEMSA launched the Making Care Work Count project in an effort to raise increased awareness about the plight of care providers which culminated in the provisions for the "appropriate recognition" of care work by SADC governments. Read more

Making Care work Count

Across Southern Africa, unpaid, voluntary, informal networks of care providers have emerged as a critical vanguard in the provision of care to sick people. In 2009, GEMSA conducted an audit of policies in the SADC region, culminating in fact sheets, country and regional reports. Read more