Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church

Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) works through African churches and community organizations to stop the spread of HIV and help those with AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. St. Gregory’s raises money to help GAIA and its African partner organizations develop village-level prevention and care projects. 

GAIA assists communities in developing locally initiated, planned, and led workshops that create detailed action plans for projects specific to community needs. These grass roots, village-level projects educate high risk groups about the disease, modify sexual behavior, promote voluntary counseling and testing for HIV, foster the social and economic empowerment of women, care for AIDS orphans, provide home-based care of ill persons, improve nutrition, and reverse the stigmatization of people with AIDS. Where medications and treatment are available, projects provide aggressive referral for treatment of opportunistic infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV itself. GAIA assists these projects through small grants and through assisting them with applications to other funding sources when appropriate.

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