HIV/AIDS Resources

• Library on AIDS
• HIV Wisdom for Older Women
• HIV/AIDS and Prevention Options for Women
• HIVSTOPSWITHME
• Managing Desire
• National Center for HIV, STD & TB Prevention
• Stepping Stones
• AGAP: Awareness Group on AIDS Prevention
• AIDS Council Project H.O.P.E.
• Black AIDS Institute
• Black Coaltion for AIDS Prevention
• Friends For Friends
• National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
• AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
• Capitol Area Vaccine Effort
• Dogwood Center
• HIV Testing
• HIV Vaccine Trials Network
• HIV Vaccines Site
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• Needle and Sex Education Outreach Network (NEON)
• Surviving AIDS: Search for a Vaccine

• AIDS & Sex Education from AVERT, in the U.K.
• AIDS & Young People from AVERT, in the U.K.
• Asian AIDS/HIV Information covering more than a dozen Asian communities
• Asian Harm Reduction Network from Chiangmai, Thailand
• HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies research on the prevention of HIV transmission
• National Prevention Information Network from the U.S. CDC

Welcome to SAC-AIDS

The Save Africa Concert Foundation for AIDS Relief (SAC-AIDS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 in the US and Nigeria built on mobilizing local communities around entertainment as a tool to raise awareness about and prevent HIV/AIDS.

The main mission of SAC-AIDS is to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS through comprehensive prevention programming, utilizing behavior change education as well as entertainment as a form of community mobilization and education "edutainment".

SAC-AIDS works primarily with youth, workforce, and community events and carries out programs for primary prevention, testing and counseling, and networks for care and treatment in collaboration with multiple local partners in both Nigeria and underserved communities in New York City. Our community-based work focuses on both raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and staying negative as well as respecting, caring for, and working with people living with HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS is a major development crisis facing the world, including sub-saharan africa, where the disease is leaving thousands of children orphans.

At SAC-AIDS, we strongly believes that using music to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS, while generating funding to enable coordination of strategic prevention programs, screening, counseling and treatment,was one sure way of targeting young people from various background.

SAC-AIDS community outreach: Students at Borough of Manhattan Community College, NYC

Prevention among young people - A great many young people reamin highly uninformed about basic facts about the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In a UNICEF report: "more than a third of all people living with HIV/AIDS are under the age of 25, and almost two-thirds of them are women. Of the 5 million new infections in 2002, half were among young people."

The UNICEF report continued... "In sub-Saharan Africa, where two girls are infected for every boy, half the teenage girls surveyed did not realize that a healthy looking person could be HIV-positive." As alarming as these reports may be, SAC-AIDS is making tremendous effort in spreading the message of prevention. With theses concerts, SAC-AIDS is targeting the age group between 15 - 25 because at this time, they are more likely to experiment with drugs and sex. The aim is to help these young people to develop a healthy behavioral patterns so as to avoid contracting and spreading HIV/AIDS.

Faces of HIV/AIDS, Sub-Sharan Africa