SUPPORT & WELFARE

• Financial Assistance
  To lighten the burden of PLHIVs and their families, AfA has provided different financial assistance schemes to cater for different needs.
  • Paddy Chew Patient Welfare Fund
    

    ARV medication are all classified as non-standard drugs. The AfA Medication Assistance Fund provides financial assistance to needy PWAs who cannot afford to pay for anti-retroviral medications.
    
    Eligibility
    
    
    Application form
    

  • HIV+ Pregnant Mothers' Fund
    

    This is for pregnant HIV+ mothers who cannot afford Anti-retroviral medication to prevent or minimise the chance of mother-to-chid transmission.
    
    Eligibility
    

  • Care for Family Fund
    

    The objectives of the Fund are to:
    a. assist families of persons with HIV infection, particularly those who have been severely impacted financially; and
    b. provide for areas that other AIDS assistance programmes may not have covered in the past, e.g., children's school & transport fees, single HIV+ parent's household expenditure, etc.
    
    Eligibility
    

  • AfA HIV Medical Management Subsidy Scheme
    

    To cover the major portion of the cost of newly diagnosed's first visit to CDC

• Contact Person: Norani Othman
• Email: norani@afa.org.sg

• Positive Living Center
  The Positive Living Centre is a vibrant safe space for Persons living with HIV to congregate, be relaxed without being judged, and to learn to live positive lives. The centre hopes to achieve this by providing information, training and counselling, and organising support group activities and empowerment workshops. The centre serves as a haven for PLHIVs to receive both emotional and physical support. The ultimate aim is to enhance the health and well-being of HIV positive people.
  
  There are currently 3 self-help patient support groups funded and supported by AfA. Through these support groups, PWA interests and rights are represented in all of AfA's activities, at both organisational and participatory levels, with confidentially preserved.
  
  • Life Goes On (LGO)
    

    LGO caters to infected heterosexual men and women

  • Club Genesis (CG)
    

    CG is a self-help patient support group for Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM).

  • Muslim + (M+)
    

    Peer support group catering to infected Malay/Muslim.

• Contact Person: Norani Othman
• Email: norani@afa.org.sg

• The Buddies Programme
  

  Volunteers in the Buddies Programme offer emotional and practical support to HIV-positive people and their loved ones through weekly visits to the ward, they also offer their friendship and companionship to this community.

• Coordinator: Alan Tan
• Tel: 98252552
• Email:info@afa.org.sg