Their mission, history, people, and contacts

TICAH, the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health, was founded in Kenya in 2003 to enhance the positive links between health and cultural knowledge, practice, belief, ritual, and artistic expression.

Their work spans Africa and Asia, focuses on AIDS and traditional medicine, sexuality and gender, food and art activism. They do research and training in comprehensive AIDS care, policy work to improve the quality of and availability of treatment choices, projects to encourage recognition of positive living as a lifelong process, convening of conferences and expert committees, documentation to stimulate attention to grassroots solutions, and activist advocacy to raise their voices in effective ways, ways that influence policies and programs.

They also have a 501(c)3, TICAH – USA which was set up in New York. It has an independent Board of Directors and will work to support TICAH in their work and to resource and run companion programs and exhibitions.