
GOALS
HODSAS AIMS TO :
Guarantee the universally recognized rights of all people on earth in the support and promotion of the rights of health products and services without any discrimination, particularly for vulnerable or marginalized groups;
Ensure access to information, education and promotion of sexual health for every person to make them useful in the development of the nation;
Advocate for more favorable legislation for vulnerable groups to promote their rights;
Participate in scientific research and documentation to strengthen research on the promotion of new technologies for the prevention of STIs-HIV/AIDS through vulnerable groups;
Combating STIs and HIV/AIDS, including the various pandemics that exacerbate the vulnerability of key populations; as well as rape and sexual violence, through the availability and accessibility of health and protection services;
To promote health and protection through participatory strategies to make the community more resilient.
wHO WE ARE
Young people in a context of great vulnerability due to their gender identity and sexual orientation; Key displaced and immigrant populations; And especially those living with HIV; Victims of human rights abuses related to their sexual orientation and gender identity; Users of drugs and strong alcoholic beverages; People living with HIV and index persons (IPs); Male, female, and transgender sex workers; Sexual minorities;
OUR PARTNERS

AIDS & Rights Alliance for Southern Africa
The AIDS and Rights Alliance for southern Africa (ARASA) was established in 2002 as a regional partnership of civil society organisations working in 18 countries in Southern and East Africa. Between 2019 and 2021, the partnership is working to promote respect for and the protection of the rights to bodily autonomy and integrity for all in order to reduce inequality, especially gender inequality by promoting health, dignity and wellbeing in southern and east Africa.

African Sex Worker Alliance
The African Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA) is a Pan African Alliance of sex worker-led groups that exist to strengthen their voices, to empower and to advocate for and advance the health and human rights of female, male and transgender sex workers including those living with HIV and using drugs through networking, movement building and development of partnerships.

COC Nederland
COC Netherlands has been advocating the rights of lesbian women, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people (LGBT’s) from 1946 on. COC strives for the decriminalization of sexual orientation and gender identity and for equal rights, emancipation and social acceptance of LGBT’s in the Netherlands and all over the world. COC is one of the few LGBT organizations that has a special consultative status with the United Nations.

HIV Justice Worldwide
https://www.hivjusticeworldwide.org/en/
HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE is a global coalition that campaigns to abolish criminal and similar laws, policies and practices that regulate, control and punish people living with HIV based on their HIV-positive status

Impact Santé Afrique
Impact Santé Afrique (ISA) is an African non-governmental organization founded by Olivia NGOU, a public health specialist who has been working for more than 10 years in the fight against malaria in Africa.

Red Umbrella Fund
https://www.redumbrellafund.org/
Red Umbrella Fund is the first and only global fund dedicated to supporting the rights of sex workers. It was established in 2012 to respond to the lack of funding available for sex workers’ rights organising. In line with its core values of autonomy and ownership, Red Umbrella Fund is a sex worker-led, participatory fund.

UNAiDS
The mission of UNAIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an expanded response to HIV and AIDS that includes preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support to those already living with the virus, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV and alleviating the impact of the epidemic. UNAIDS seeks to prevent the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a severe pandemic.
