Getting tested: A New Start

The Society for Family Health (SFH) has launched a social marketing campaign for Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) aimed at changing the perception that HIV testing is only for the sick and encouraging all South Africans to regularly test for HIV.

Reaching church leaders and congregations

When Millicent Phewa discovered that her local church in Umlazi, a township near Durban in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal, did not have an HIV/AIDS community support programme, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

A circle of giving

Community Outreach volunteers attached to HIVANs Campus HIV/AIDS Support Unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natals Howard College campus held a fundraising event over two days in May 2005. Over R1 500 was collected from the sale of raffle tickets for patients and families at McCord Hospitals Sinikithemba Care Centre, and more than 15 bags of clothing were donated to the Hillcrest AIDS Trust Centre for their income-generation scheme.

Intersect Coalition Womens Festival: Linking Hands for Change

The 9 August is National Womens Day in South Africa. The KwaZulu-Natal Intersect Coalition which is being spearheaded by the KZN Network on Violence Against Women plans to host a womens celebration taking place at the Kings Park Soccer Stadium in which women will engage each other (and men) in activities like live musical, drama, poetry and story telling and etc.

A place for men to talk about HIV/AIDS

It's a South African first, a place where men can talk to other men about HIV/AIDS and other sexual problems.

Halala! CINDI - Looking Back Living Forward

CINDI Members have been working together for 10 years to address the needs of vulnerable children in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal.

Do you know your HIV status? Many people are still unable to answer 'yes' to this important question. A pioneering South African programme called 'New Start' sets out to change that.

A place of rest in the depths of despair

Catholic bishop Kevin Dowling, a native of Pretoria, has been working in the Rustenberg area since 1991 and has personally experienced the pain and suffering of the people he serves.

Orphan grows up to care for other orphans

Sam is an orphan who now looks after younger orphans. Sam, a short 17-year-old with a shiny face, has been a childcare worker for the past year, taking care of orphans and children from very poor homes.

Hope for the dying

Less than 300 kilometres inland from the West Coast the environment changes from semi-dessert to lush vineyards where award-winning wine is produced and fruit trees strain under the weight of summer fruit.