Photo on opposite page: © Ziv Kor Other international programmes en/BRC. Photos on this page: © Marko Kokic/ICRC, © Sarah Oughton/BRC. As well as preparing for and responding to emergencies, we also support longer term Red Cross and Red Crescent programmes around the world, helping communities tackle health and social crises. Key facts > We worked on programmes > Our main areas of work include across 16 countries in 2011, HIV, tuberculosis, water and including South Africa, Sierra sanitation, post-conflict care and Leone and Kyrgyzstan. community healthcare. For many women in Lesotho, the joy of finding out they are pregnant is tempered by the fear that they will pass HIV on to their baby. Matumelo and her husband both tested positive for HIV, and were visited by Red Cross volunteer Mamofela. She helped Matumelo to accept her status and cope with the disease, as well as giving her the support she needed to tell her friends and family. She then guided Matumelo through her pregnancy, attending her local clinic and getting the treatment and care she needed to avoid passing the disease on to her unborn child. redcross.org.uk/overseas