AmCham HIV/AIDS Resource Book
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Message from AmCham Chairman

10 Facts You Should Know about HIV/AIDS

The Government of Singapore: Approach and Response to HIV/AIDS

Business and HIV/AIDS – The Business Case

Singapore Resource Listing

Regional & Int’l Resource Listing

Sample HR Policy Statements

Sample Workplace Communications

Success Stories

Current Statistics for Singapore

For more information, contact Ann-Maree Ashburn (AmCham) at 62235-0077 ext: 21 or by email at amashburn@amcham.org.sg

Singapore Community Resource

Action for AIDS (www.afa.org.sg)

Founded in 1988, AFA is a caring NGO committed to AIDS prevention, advocacy and support. Our mission is to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS through continuous education targeted at vulnerable groups; to advocate for access to affordable care and against HIV/AIDS discrimination; and to provide support for PWAs, caregivers and volunteers. A private, NGO with private funding.

Benedict Jacobs (Executive Director) 9003.7566, afa@pacific.net.sg

AFA’s Sub-programs:

  • HIV Education and The Workplace – Educators to assist organizations in developing workplace policies relating HIV and HIV-infected workers

Lalitha 6293.9648, lalitha_dsc@hotmail.com

Benedict Jacobs - 9003.7566

  • Women and HIV – providing information and support for women, who are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS

Kamalini Ramdas – 9691-.1050

  • MSM Outreach – promoting cultivation of safe sex practices among homosexual and bi-sexual men

Roger Winder – 6472.2207

  • WSW Outreach - promoting cultivation of safe sex practices among homosexual and bi-sexual women

Eileena Lee – 9027.2766, www.geocities.com/lookGglass

  • AMPUH – promoting awareness and prevention among the Malay/Muslim community

Feisal Abdul Rahman – 9675.1517, feisal@cyberway.com.sg

  • The Buddies Programme - Volunteers offering emotional and practical support to HIV-positive people and their families

Alan Tan – 9739.4737, alanchyesoon@yahoo.com

  • Life Goes On (LGO) and Club Genesis (CG) – Self-help groups for PWAs. Experience sharing locally and regionally, wholly confidential. LGO caters to heterosexual men and women, while CG caters to homosexual men.

LGO Coordinator – Roger Ang, 9324.1659, roger@cyberway.com.sg

CG Coordinator – Sean – 9457.6275, hemispheresg@yahoo.com.sg

  • Survivors – Support groups for the families and friends of PWAs who have passed on.

Iris Verghese – 6357.7918, iris_verghese@notes.ttsh.gov.sg

Business Coalition on AIDS Singapore (www.abconaids.org)

Registered in October 2002, BCAS is a network comprising companies and individuals in Singapore whose goal is to coordinate and promote a concerted business response to HIV/AIDS.

Ms. Suzie Solomon, info@bcas.org.sg, Telephone/FAX: 6341.9306

Clinical Services

  • Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Anonymous Test Site (Founded by Action for AIDS)

31 Kelantan Lane

(Diagonally opposite Deskar Road), Little India

Hours of operation:

Wednesday nights: 18:30 – 20:00

Saturday afternoons: 13:00 – 16:00

Coordinator – Lalitha Nair – 6293.6948

  • Center for Communicable Diseases

Tan Tock Send Hospital, Patient Care Center

Mary Stevens – 6357.7949

Government of Singapore (www.hpb.gov.sg)