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Engage the marginalized and stigmatized People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) to fight for their rights, seek equitable access to public health, and advocate for the protection, promotion, and fulfilment of the rights and banish stigma.
Silence Kills Support Group (SKSG) was formed by PLHIV in Selebi-Phikwe in 2003 and was duly registered with the registrar of Societies on the 16th of March 2006 to engage the marginalized and stigmatized People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) to fight for their rights, seek equitable access to public health, and advocate for the protection, promotion, and fulfilment of the rights and banish stigma.
The organization is committed to the betterment of the lives of marginalized peoples of Botswana by empowering them with skills, strategies and life skills to enable them independently leverage resources to realize their social, economic and health needs and self-sufficiency or fulfilling life.
To improve access to quality HIV/TB prevention, care and support services by all PLHIV by 2020
To advocate and lobby for a favourable political, regulatory and socio-economic climate for universal access to public services 2020
To strengthen institutional capacities of SKSG for delivery of integrated human capital development interventions by 2020
To improve SKSG’s organizational sustainability by 2020
for Key Population clients (the DIC serves as a save space for AGYW)
For GBV victims to call in for immediate help
For Comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, Care, and Support interventions
SK envisages a
Wholeness and Inclusiveness
Respect for human dignity
Integrity and reliability in all operations
Receptive to otherness and difference
Social Justice
Equality and Equity
Gender Mainstreaming
