CARE recognizes that HIV and AIDS is more than a health problem. It touches all aspects of a family’s life.

Those who live in poverty are often more vulnerable to HIV and AIDS for reasons that include:

• A lack of authority to take control of their lives
• A lack of access to education
• A reliance on high-risk survival strategies such as prostitution

Those affected and infected by HIV and AIDS are also more vulnerable to poverty: breadwinners who are sick or who care for sick family members are often prevented from working to support their families.

Poverty and HIV and AIDS are intrinsically linked.

CARE focuses on a comprehensive and community-based approach to HIV and AIDS that seeks out both the root of the problem and the consequences.  Our approach includes:

• Education on the transmission of HIV
• Lessons on proper nutrition to help people live long, healthy, normal lives
• Improving access to medicines and quality care so those infected with HIV, and those caring for them, can continue to work and go to school
• Education and protection for children orphaned by AIDS and other vulnerable children
• Savings and loans groups to help people living with HIV and AIDS can have a sustainable  livelihood that supports them and their families