Sub Saharan Africa is home to 2.1 million children living with HIV. Fortunately, increasing access to medical care, including Antiretroviral drugs, is improving the lives of many of those children. With appropriate care and treatment, children infected with HIV at birth or later in childhood are now growing up in to adolescence. However, they are growing up with considerable psychological and social challenges.

Since 2004, Africaid has been responding to the psychosocial support needs of HIV positive children and adolescents in Zimbabwe. Its programme aims to equip children and teenagers living with HIV with the essential skills and confidence to assist them to cope better with the events in their lives, to pursue their hopes and dreams and to enjoy happy, fulfilled lives.