Through the programme, the communities have become better equipped to take control of HIV and AIDS in their lives as they have been educated and informed.  In particular those living with HIV/AIDS have enhanced structures in the form of 2 support groups formed and Trios (A Trio entails two close persons monitoring and supporting the patient on taking their ARV treatment). This has brought about a significant improvement in the utilization of services offered by local health facilities in the area.
 
Herold Mashaba, an Area Leader in the Programme shares one of his experiences:
 
“One day during door to door campaign of “Connecting People to the Clinics” programme in Sadu village, we visited one of the households and noticed that ‘Lulu’, the lady of the household and a single mother of three was very sick.  We realised she had insufficient information about the epidemic. During the counselling session it came out that despite her being very ill, she had not yet visited the local clinic shying away from the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS as she felt she had some of the symptoms. In response, we gave her information about the epidemic until she finally opened up that instead she had visited a traditional healer but her condition did not improve. We emphasised the need for her to visit the local clinic and that we could give her a referral letter as well as accompany her on her first visit.
 
Today, she is much healthier and is thankful to the ‘Connecting People to Clinics’ programme which she says ‘saved’ her life. She has become one of our ‘Passionates’ (activists) in the programme”.
 
The programme results have been outstanding, with higher results than had been planned for the year.  A total of 8,063 households were reached through the programme.  250,000 condoms were distributed to the community, surpassing the 150,000that was planned. There has also been a significant rise in the number of men actively requesting condoms.  16,753 people living with HIV, TB were visited during the year and 823 pregnant women were referred for the PMTCT programme.