Additionally, ERD is supporting the Itipini Health Clinic in the Diocese of St. John's, who are providing HIV/AIDS health care for a marginalized community who survives by picking through a municipal garbage dump.  The clinic staff and volunteers help individuals access voluntary counseling and testing.  Mentors support groups for people after they have been tested.  Nurses treat opportunistic diseases, offer vitamins and prophylactic antibiotics as well as provide food to the 240+ individuals infected with the disease so they can maintain an adequate level of nutrition.  Awareness raising reaching the whole community is estimated to be about one thousand.

A successful women’s quilting cooperative begun under the program has grown into a full-fledged business.  Many of the women employed through this project suffer from HIV/AIDS; their income means their children can remain in school and have a future.

Another income generating program assists HIV-positive women in Brown’s Farm Township.  The women work together to make beaded AIDS pins.  The work provides enough money for the women to care for their families and the business’s profits go into a fund to support children after they die.

Swaziland
Giving care to people affected by HIV/AIDS:
ERD has partnered with The Diocese of Swaziland to provide prevention education, care and support for the infected and affected, mitigation of the impact of HIV/AIDS and poverty alleviation within the Parishes. A series of workshops have been conducted to empower the Clergy and Wardens on HIV/AIDS issues. Operating out of the city of Manzini, the Mother's Union is the largest Anglican women's organization in Swaziland, and is instrumental in offering care and support to HIV/AIDS patients. The Mother's Union has a program for orphans concentrating on impact mitigation in the peri-urban area of Manzini. It also operates a soup kitchen for the destitute at the Mother's Union Center in Manzini. Additionally, a Parish Nursing Program has been established in the Diocese of Swaziland wherein nurses provide home-based care in conjunction with rural health motivators.

Tanzania
Teaching HIV/AIDS education:
ERD supports a training program that prepares forty people to strengthen HIV/AIDS education in their communities.  HIV/AIDS issues and prevention education will be taught to traditional birth attendants, traditional healers and village health workers.

Zambia
Supporting HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and care:
ERD is working with St. Francis Hospital, the largest mission hospital in Zambia, to provide voluntary HIV testing and counseling for people in the Katete district.  St. Francis serves as the hub for a network of small hospitals and clinics for an area with approximately one million people.  The hospital provides peer education to area youth and commercial sex workers. ERD also supports St. Francis Hospital's community-based AIDS programs. More than six hundred people who are chronically ill from AIDS-related diseases receive home care.  ERD provides 1,200 vulnerable children and AIDS orphans with food and other support for their families.

Kitwe, a community mired in deep poverty and high crime and unemployment rates, has the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Zambia. ERD is partnering with the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation on a major initiative to provide food and education for 72 children aged four to six orphaned by AIDS in Kitwe.  At MEF, children will recieve balanced meals at the dining hall supplemented by nutritious snacks and milk.  The families of all orphans will recieve corn, oil, sugar and beans each month to prepare nutritious meals at home.  Households caring for orphans will be supported to start income-generating activities and will be provided with skills training in areas such as dressmaking, carpentry, agriculture and bookkeeping.

ERD is expanding education for pre-school children at the Mary Sikoneta Demonstration Pre-School, where many of the students have lost their parents to AIDS.  Balanced meals are provided for the children.  Families caring for the children receive additional food to supplement their diet.  All children are treated at a medical clinic and receive free immunizations.

ERD also supports a project that cares for children orphaned by AIDS in rural Fiwila, Zambia.  ERD is training 150 community volunteers to monitor more than five hundred children left behind by AIDS who live with their extended families. In addition, ERD provides food and support to the families. A similar project is underway in Luapala, where ERD is training 60 caregivers, who will provide counseling and support to children in that community.  The caregivers represent a cross-section of the community, including health care workers, traditional healers, birth attendants, and school personnel.