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In this edition:
Zanele Mchunu And The
Leaders Of Tomorrow
The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) is
working with a group of 31 young people from the
Magangangozi community of Okhahlamba who have
lost either one or both of their parents and who
have named their group “The Okhahlamba Leaders
of Tomorrow”...
Full Story
PACSA confronts HIV/AIDS,
gender issues and poverty
The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social
Awareness (PACSA) held a Conference in February
2004 focusing on community-based experiences of
the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its two most prominent
cross-cutting challenges: gender inequality and
poverty...
Full Story
HIV/AIDS is a human rights
issue…
HIV/AIDS is a human rights issue … this
is a core belief of one of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s
top law students of 2003, Andreas Coutsoudis...
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Sharing sorrow, sharing
hope: Tshepang – The Third Testament
The evening of 6 March 2004 was a time of great
emotion, emerging talent and excellence at the
eKhaya Art Centre in KwaMashu’s C-Section,
KZN, where its AfriSun Amphitheatre was the venue
for a one-night-only performance of the play “Tshepang
– The 3rd Testament”.
Full Story
Looking for home-based
care services?
Here is a list of organisations and individuals
offering home-based care services in the Durban
area:
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Finding
help for health …
All of us in South Africa are living with HIV
and AIDS, and we know the effects of the epidemic
on our neighbourhoods, workplaces, communities,
provinces and country. Some of us know our status
as being HIV-positive; others have friends, family
members, workmates, teachers or employees who
are either infected or affected by the virus.
Full Story
Breaking down barriers
to social support
HIV/AIDS is sweeping illness and death through
our country, robbing households and even whole
communities of breadwinners and caregivers, and
leaving grandparents and young children, who are
in many cases ill and very poor, to fend for themselves
or for each other. What is being done to ease
the financial burdens placed upon these shoulders?
Full Story
HIV/AIDS vaccine trials
and informed consent
HIVAN’s Sectoral Networker and researcher
Nicci Stanley, who also serves as Treasurer of
the South African Medical Research Council (MRC)
Vaccine Research Unit’s Community Advisory
Board (CAB), went to Seattle in the United States
of America in March this year to attend a meeting
of scientists working on the development of an
HIV/AIDS vaccine.
Full Story
Gifts for the givers –
donations to Bergville volunteers
At a function hosted by HIVAN’s Bergville
HBC Programme, local home-based care volunteers
were presented with generous donations of goods
from both the provincial Department of Health
and the Drakensberg Sun Hotel.
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Coming closer
…
Welcome to SONDELA’s first
2004 edition. This is, once again, a double issue,
bringing you news about all kinds of connections,
exchanges and contacts in the multi-sectoral movement
against the spread of HIV and AIDS, both in KwaZulu-Natal
and beyond.
Full Story
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The printed version of HIVAN's Community
Newsletter, Sondela, is printed by
Human Scale Printers - (031) 912 2910/11.
Layout Artist: Thula Ngcobo
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