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Fancourt owner sets up R48m AIDS programme

Posted: Thursday, April 08, 2004
Gustav Thiel.Cape Times 30 November 2003 . Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd

German software billionaire Hasso Plattner has given almost R48 million to establish a programme to fight AIDS in the southern Cape. The programme, Isombululo, designed by the Universities of Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal, was announced in George by Plattner, owner of the Fancourt Hotel and Country Club, on the eve of the President's Cup (golf tournament).


HIVAN-WCRP Medical Researchers€™ and Faithleaders€™ Forum - May 2004: The A €“ Z of Anti-retroviral Therapy

Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004
Judith King. HIVAN Media Office.June 2004.

In May 2004, interfaith leaders, medical researchers and community members in and around Durban joined together for a one-day workshop to share knowledge about anti-retroviral drug treatment and the roll-out of the ARV treatment programme in KZN. Hosted by partners HIVAN and the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), the gathering focused on how religious groups could help people living with HIV and AIDS, the facts about how ARVs work, and how local health structures are targeting the most vulnerable patients for medication.


Condoms coming to nightclubs

Posted: Monday, July 26, 2004
Jo-Anne Smetherham.26 July 2004. Pretoria News. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

The health department will soon begin touting its new brand of condom in nightclubs across the country. The campaign advertising Choice condoms has already started in four Gauteng clubs and will kick off in six Cape Town clubs this week.


Fight against HIV/AIDS goes hi-tech

Posted: Friday, August 06, 2004
Patrick Leeman.06 August 2004. The Mercury. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

A bold new chapter in the battle to find a solution to the raging HIV/AIDS pandemic was written at the Doris Duke Research Institute at the Nelson R Mandel Medical School of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban this week.


WCRP/HIVAN Forum - Building partnerships for HIV/AIDS management in KZN

Posted: Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Judith King. HIVAN Media Office.August 2004.

HIVAN and the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) hosted the second in its 2004 series of day-long Capacity-building Workshops on 12 August at the Glenmore Pastoral Centre in Durban. The theme of the Workshop was €œBuilding Partnerships for HIV/AIDS Management in KZN€, and was facilitated by HIVAN€™s Community Responses research team.


Call for papers - Multidisciplinary forum of child and youth research, with a focus on HIV/AIDS

Posted: Wednesday, October 06, 2004
HIVANSeptember 2004.

HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking) is a research, networking and advocacy organisation attached to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. HIVAN is convening a two-day forum on the 26th and 27th of November 2004 in Durban and will present various in-house projects which link biomedical and social science research with practice. Other researchers across multiple disciplines in the field of childhood studies and HIV/AIDS are invited to share this platform to present their work. The Forum will be open to both academics and practitioners.


Writers unite to battle HIV/AIDS with unique book

Posted: Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Di Caelers.28 October 2004. Cape Argus. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

Musicians have been doing it for years, but now 21 of the world's best-known writers, including five Nobel literature prizewinners, are throwing their considerable weight behind a drive to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS.


Traditional healers join the fight against HIV/AIDS

Posted: Friday, November 05, 2004
Jeanne Viall.04 November 2004. Cape Argus. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

When prayers to the ancestors mingle with songs to Jesus, and traditional healers dance alongside fervent Christians amid the smoke of imphepho, you know you're in the heart of something uniquely South African.


WCRP/HIVAN Religious Leaders and HIV/AIDS Researchers Forum - November 2004

Posted: Friday, December 10, 2004
Judith King. HIVAN Media Office.December 2004.

The World Conference on Religions for Peace (WCRP) and HIVAN (Centre for HIV and AIDS Networking) co-hosted their final forum of the 2004 programme series for religious leaders and HIV/AIDS researchers on 24 November at the University of KwaZulu-Natal€™s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine.


Tackling the twin menaces

Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
Kerry Cullinan.24 March 2005. Health-E News Service. Republished courtesy of Health-E News.

In downtown Durban, health experts are pioneering treating TB and HIV/AIDS together.


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