The organisation 13 offices in the gazetted towns of the country. These offices are in Manzini, Mbabane, Piggs peak, Ngwenya, Ezulwini, Mankayane, Matsapha, Hlathikulu, Nhlangano, Lavumisa, Siteki, and Vuvulane and Malkerns. These offices are coordinated by the AMICAALL National coordinating office in Manzini.

Over the years the program has assisted all towns and cities to establish locally based responses to HIV and AIDS. Towns implement different activities including condom distribution and demonstration, home based care, care for orphaned and vulnerable children, Workplace HIV and AIDS programs, peer education, community conversations, child protection, ART (only provided in Manzini, Siteki and Mbabane) and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT).

Section 2: Capacity Statement

1.1.Previous Program Implementation Experience, Donor History, and Capacity to Implement.

AMICAALL brings over 17 years of experience in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services in the urban space. The organization has received and managed slightly more than 53 million Emalangeni from 18 different donors since the organization started operating in 2002. The donors that we work with are as follows: Government agencies (NERCHA, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Urban Local Authorities); United Nations agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, WFP and UNFPA); Foundations (African Capacity Building Foundation; Nelson Mandela Children’s’ Foundation, Elizabeth Glazer Paediatric AIDS Foundation, King Baudouin Foundation and Nike Red); The Global Fund; International Non-governmental Organizations (VNG, Stop AIDS, World Vision, Safaids and the Academy of Educational Development); Regional and Continental bodies (Southern African Development Community and the Alliance of Mayors on AIDS in Africa) and The US Government  through Save the Children Swaziland. In South Africa, Ghana, Namibia, Tanzania, AMICAALL has worked collaboratively with a number of organizations on HIV/AIDS response. AMICAALL is recognized by the National Response as a Coordinator of the Urban Response subsector. Over the years, the program has assisted all towns and cities to establish locally based responses to HIV and AIDS.

The organization is working with the Ministries of health, Ministry of Education and local partners to apply innovative approaches to improve the urban HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, SRH/FP/NCDs knowledge to scale up best practices to prevent new HIV infections; strengthen HIV counseling and testing services, PMTCT and behavior change programmes; improve basic health care services for people living with HIV/AIDS; roll-out community ART including Test and Start.

In the year 2019, the organization has implemented a project whose objectives were reaching the right men with the HIV prevention package, linking men to services including VMMC, Screening men for TB and NCD’s, delivering HIV risk reduction information, conducting HIV prevention and service demand creation sessions to sensitize men using the core HIV prevention package. The project was implemented in three regions namely Manzini, Shiselweni and Hhohho. The total reached through the HIV prevention sessions is eight thousand four hundred and sixty-four (8464) men and they were reached through different strategies. The sessions consisted of discussions on the basic facts on HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention (including PrEP, PEP, and VMMC), treatment as a prevention strategy with emphasize on test and start. The sessions were also coupled with conducting risk assessments for the individual men whereby each person responded to a questionnaire pertaining his sexual practices and at the end of the questionnaire they would receive a message advising the respondent on the services to be taken.

2.1: Partnerships

The organization is working with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and local partners to apply innovative approaches to improve the urban HIV/AIDS, TB, SRH/FP/NCDs knowledge to scale up best practices to prevent new HIV infections; strengthen HIV counseling and testing services, PMTCT and behavior change programs to improve basic health care services for people living with HIV/AIDS and roll-out community ART including Test and Start.

• In March to May 2018, AMICAALL partnered with ICAP working on providing HTS to Malkerns population with emphasis to reach more Men. At Malkerns 1651 clients were tested for HIV out of which 62% clients were men, 5.5% clients tested HIV positive, 19.7% clients successfully linked to ART and 8.8% clients successfully initiated to CommART.
• In 2018 AMICAALL received funding support from the USG PEPFAR to collaborate with PACT in the “Insika Project” to implement HIV prevention programs for OVC and Adolescent Girls and Young Women.
• The organization is also participating in the current Global Fund round to implement HIV prevention programs for Key Populations (MSM, FSW, PWID and the Transport industry).
• In 2019 AMICAALL also received funding from HC4 to collaborate in the Reaching men project to implement HIV prevention programs. The project is being implemented in four towns (Matsapha, Mbabane, Manzini, and Nhlangano).

Below is a list of programs and activities that are implemented by AMICAAL in an effort to contribute to the overall national goal of eliminating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country .these programs and activities are in line with the eNSF.