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'Buddies' offer emotional support

Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
29 March 2005. IRIN PlusNews. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.

When Fatima Sayed (not her real name), an HIV-positive mother, is feeling down she knows she can pick up the phone and call her 'buddy', Amina Nordien, who signed up as a volunteer friend and mentor to Muslims living with the virus in Cape Town, South Africa.


Blockbuster film benefits orphans of HIV/AIDS

Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
13 May 2005.IRIN PlusNews. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.

South African orphans of HIV/AIDS are to benefit from the charity premiere of 'Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith' held on Thursday in Los Angeles, US.


Reaching church leaders and congregations

Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
11 May 2005.IRIN PlusNews. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.

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

Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Dudu Zondi. HIVAN Campus HIV/AIDS Support Unit .

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

Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005
May 2005. Republished from the Agenda Website.

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.


Sportsmen going the extra mile for children living with HIV/AIDS

Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Joyce Tse.15 June 2005. Cape Times. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

Sportsmen are coming out in force to raise money for children with HIV/AIDS. Three fundraising events hosted by the Starfish Foundation aim to help more than 9 000 children. The funds are for food, uniforms and school fees.


Bono bets on Red to battle HIV/AIDS

Posted: Thursday, February 02, 2006
BBC News.26 January 2006. A posting from AF-AIDS (af-aids@eforums.healthdev.org)

The rock star Bono has launched a new global brand, Product Red, with a share of profits to go to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa.


WCRP-HIVAN HIV/AIDS Dialogue - HIV/AIDS: Urban and Rural Realities

Posted: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Judith King. HIVAN.May 2006.

Introducing the first of four forum gatherings for 2006, Saydoon Nisa Sayed of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) welcomed all present, and the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, HIVAN and WCRP are entering their fourth year of these sessions.


Helping each other to fight HIV/AIDS

Posted: Monday, July 17, 2006
Xoliswa Zulu and Jana Van Der Merwe.06 July 2006. Independent Online. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

For Makhosi Ngema, a traditional healer from Ntuzuma, north of Durban, helping people living with HIV/AIDS has never been easy and has become a daily struggle.


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