HIV/AIDS

Community mobilization

In many countries, communities were the first to mobilize in response to the threat of HIV, and their initiatives are the foundations on which the official national response has been built.

As the International Federation and their National Societies have scaled up their HIV/AIDS-response, collaboration with local groups and institutions has increased. This includes work with voluntary counselling and testing centres, as well as supporting outreach activities through social mobilization and contributing to the organization of peer support groups for affected communities.

The degree to which communities can be mobilized depends on both the awareness of the local communities themselves and the level of both internal and external leadership available to it.