South African Schoolchildren Gain Clean Water and Sanitation
April 16, 2009:  More than 10,000 South African learners, teachers, and community members will gain access to clean, abundant water and sanitation through an International Water and Development Alliance (WADA) supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) and implemented by the Alliance to Save Energy, an international non-profit organization.

South African and American Government Partnership
Strengthens Justice for South African Women
April 2, 2009:  The Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative (WJEI) is supported and funded by the U.S. government to help advance South Africa’s (SA) response to gender-based violence.  The program improves the availability of comprehensive services for rape and sexual assault survivors.

UWC HIV/AIDS Prevention receives R8-m USAID boost.  Minister of Education to speak at launch
March 3, 2009:  The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has reached a new milestone in their partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with funding from the American President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to target HIV/AIDS prevention in Western Cape schools and at the university itself.

IOM and USAID Announce HIV Prevention and Care for Farm Workers
March 9, 2009:  The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Regional Office for Southern Africa and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a new program March 9 to reduce HIV vulnerability of farm workers in South Africa’s Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces.

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Women’s Justice Empowerment Initiative (WJEI) Launch
Remarks by Dr. Carleene Dei, Mission Director; USAID Southern Africa, Cape Town.
April 2, 2009: Former CNN Bureau Chief and journalist, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, has been quoted as saying that: “South Africans have become numb to statistics” regarding such things as rape and crime.  But I believe that today’s launch demonstrates unequivocally that, while this may be true for some, there are many South Africans in the public and private sector who are moving aggressively to address the issue of Violence against Women and Children.

"TB is Society's Responsibility - Together We Can Defeat TB". By Chargé d'Affaires Helen La Lime.
March 24, 2009:  The American people, through the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), USAID and other programs, are making major investments to prevent and control TB in countries around the world where the burden of the disease is highest, including South Africa.  We are active partners in the worldwide STOP TB campaign, working to halve TB prevalence and deaths by 2015 (relative to 1990 levels). Achieving this goal could save 14 million lives and create great economic benefits for nations.

USAID and the University of the Western Cape, HIV and AIDS Peer Education Development and Training. Remarks by Dr. Carleene Dei, USAID Southern Africa Regional Director.
March 3, 2009: You may be interested to know that one of USAID’s earliest areas of support to South Africa was in the area of education.  In the mid-1980s, we gave scholarships—what you call “bursaries”—to South Africans of color to attend higher education institutions in South Africa and at American universities where they could study subjects that apartheid prohibited them from studying.

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