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?...

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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...

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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?.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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