Description
Family Health Trust (FHT) was established in 1987 as a not-for-profit Non-Governmental Organisation that provides a holistic response to HIV and AIDS in Zambia. It was one of the earliest AIDS Service Organisations in the country established just few years after the first case of HIV/AIDS was diagnosed in Zambia. Since then, FHT has made considerable contributions to improve health care service provision and response to HIV, STIs, teenage pregnancy, child marriages and sexual and gender based violence in Zambia. FHT has also inculcated the reading culture in schools through text books distribution throughout the country, supported OVCs with educational materials, empowered orphans and vulnerable youths and widows in life skills and income generation activities. FHT contributed significantly in the establishment of the National AIDS Council and in the formulation of national guidelines and other AIDS Service Organizations in Zambia. FHT has a compliment of full-time members of staff, full time volunteers and part-time community volunteers.
Operationally, FHT carries out its activities as an umbrella organisation of three distinct programs namely: