What We Do > Healthcare Programs > Choose to Care

Beginning in 2000, CMMB supported over 100 projects in five countries across southern Africa aimed at developing community-based solutions and best practices for palliative care, orphan care and support, and HIV education. The innovative Choose to Care program at these sites provided hospice care for the dying, as well as housing, food and education for children who have lost parents. Over the six years of the program, CMMB supported Choose to Care projects in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho in collaboration with the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation.

CMMB Healthcare Programs

AIDSRelief - HIV treatment programs
Born to Live - Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
Choose to Care - Hospice and orphan care
Responding to AIDS in China and India - Training and educational programs
Accion por la Salud Familiar - Community programs for family health
Back to Haiti - Primary healthcare programs
Men Taking Action - Program in Zambia to address male attitudes and practices that negatively affect women attending antenatal clinics and accessing PMTCT services
Healing Help - Medical shipments

Click here to download UNAIDS Best Practices study (PDF): “A Faith-Based Response to HIV in Southern Africa: The Choose to Care Initiative”