|
|
 |
|
|
FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and the Land - June 2002
Source: Tanja Arntz - HIVAN Community Engagement Co-ordinator
Approximately 50 delegates representing Kenya, Lesotho, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa attended the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations)/SARPN (Southern African Regional Poverty Network)workshop on HIV/AIDS and the Land held on 24 and 25 June 2002 in Pretoria. HIV/AIDS is a major issue of development in Sub-Saharan Africa today and it is recognised that there is an urgent need to address and resolve the problems created by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In the agricultural sector, research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on extension, food security, nutrition, agricultural productivity, etc. has been initiated by a number of aid agencies. However, little research has been conducted on the impact of HIV/AIDS on land issues.
To download the full report, click on the Word or PDF icons. For printed copies of the report and attendance list, contact Nompilo Xaba at Natal University's Campus HIV/AIDS Support Unit via telephone on (031) 260 2511.
 
|
HIV/AIDS Treatment Infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Principal Investigators: HIVAN Associates Max ODonnell (Tufts University, Boston USA) and Jennifer Zelnick (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)
The common wisdom is that anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) for treatment of HIV/AIDS are too expensive for poor- or middle-income countries. If ARVs are to be used at all, only the prophylaxis of maternal fetal transmission is cost-effective. Yet conventional wisdom is slowly changing, in the light of falling drug costs, ever-increasing projections of HIV/AIDS-associated morbidity and mortality and success stories such as Brazils national HIV/AIDS program. As the cost-effectiveness ratios improve, and political pressure for treatment in Africa builds, we are faced with an important research question: What are the essential requirements to start HAART programmes in resource-poor settings?
Read the full project brief here...
|
The Behaviour Change Programme Network (BCP) Partnership
HIVAN has established a partnership with the KwaZulu-Natal CBO Network and, in particular, its Behaviour Change Programme (BCP). The BCP, being directed at implementing a wide-sweeping programme of behaviour change in communities and having representation throughout the province's eight regions, facilitates HIVAN's entry into the communities with which it engages. The partnership was formed when a preliminary meeting was held late in 2001 with a representative of the BCP and the Vice-Chairperson of the KZN CBO Network, Mr Victor Mkhize, who expressed personal enthusiasm for collaboration with HIVAN, and undertook to communicate the proposal to his BCP colleagues. Mr Mkhize and the HIVAN Community Liaison Team discussed the proposed partnership with the Executive of the KZN CBO Network and received its mandate to pursue it.
Read the full story here...
|
|
|
HIVAN and WorldVision SA
WorldVision is an international Christian development aid organisation dedicated to the upliftment of poorly resourced communities through practical, needs-based empowerment initiatives. WorldVision SA runs a Child Survival Project as part of its Okahlamba Area Dvelopment Programme (OADP) in the uThukela district of KwaZulu-Natal, where, working together with local partners, a particularly active focus on home-based care and HIV/AIDS programmes for youth and children is sustained.
Read the full story here...
|
|
|
HIVAN and COUNT
HIVAN and Co-operative Organisation for the Upgrading of Numeracy Training (COUNT) is a numeracy-focused non-profit organisation that has been working in the Winterton-Loskop area since 1999. From their work there they have seen the impact of HIV/AIDS on the community in general and on educators, parents and learners in particular. They are concerned about the lack of support available to the community to address the issues surrounding the pandemic. In 2001 COUNT formed a partnership with the Molteno Project, a literacy development non-profit organisation, which focuses on supporting numeracy development and the introduction of literacy programmes to some 20 schools, as well as jointly addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis in these schools.
Read the full story here...
|
|
|
|
The KwaZulu-Natal Experimental College
 The KwaZulu-Natal Experimental College is an international school, training adult students to become volunteers for development. The College is one of 15 schools on four continents, together training around 1200 volunteers per year, and operates in concert with the international development organisation Humana People-to-People. It offers intensive six-month skills-training courses on subjects like project management, language and communication, health care, HIV/AIDS, child development, co-operation, southern African history, sports, leadership and organisational planning. After training, the students are deployed in various projects for six months of volunteer work and experiential learning. Students are currently being deployed to projects in Gauteng, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Botswana will soon also become a site for this training. There they work in programmes involving activities such as HIV/AIDS awareness, teacher training, streetchildren, family healthcare and income generation.
Read the full story here...
|
|
|
|
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Land Reform in KwaZulu-Natal
- Hosted by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network and the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban -
The seminar was held at the Leeb du Toit Council Chamber at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, on the 23rd of November 2001. The participants were drawn from national and provincial government departments, local and regional NGOs, the provincial farmers' association, local and regional development organisations, research institutes, and academics.
The event was designed to be participatory and to create an environment of shared learning. Several papers were presented at the outset to provide background information to the pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal and of the Department of Land Affairs' HIV/AIDS policy. The issues raised in discussion after these presentations were then discussed and debated in an interactive and creative process, which intended to help participants engage with the difficult subject.
Click on the icons to download the full report:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Donation of KZN Maps - A boost for HIVANs Community Engagement Programme
HIVAN is deeply grateful to the Independent Municipal Demarcation Board for donating 10 maps of the KwaZulu-Natal region to the Centre for use by its Community Liaison team during the course of their work. These invaluable resources will assist the team in creating detailed outlines of the communities with which they are engaged, specifically in gauging their priorities and needs, and in determining the geographic feasibility of fostering collaboration between different communities with similar requirements and vision. These issues will be discussed on a regular basis with members of communities and their leadership at HIVANs Community Engagement workshops.
The Independent Municipal Demarcation Board is given the power to determine the categories of municipality, their outer boundaries and wards. Additional functions of the Board are to provide advice to government and to work with government departments in aligning municipal boundaries and governments service delivery regions.
The Independent Municipal Demarcation Board can be contacted via its Chairperson, Dr Michael Sutcliffe, at [email protected] and the Boards website address is www.demarcation.org.za.
|
|
|
|
Association of Commonwealth Universities Strategy - The Lusaka Report
From 7 - 10 November 2001 the Association of Commonwealth Universities, with a membership of over 500 universities in 36 Commonwealth countries, facilitated a workshop, hosted in Lusaka by the University of Zambia. Senior representatives from ten universities in southern and eastern Africa worked collaboratively towards developing an HIV/AIDS strategy for Commonwealth universities. The workshop was undertaken with the financial support of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). In opening the meeting, host Vice-Chancellor Professor Mutale Chanda made reference to the impact that HIV/AIDS is having on national development - not least in depleting the number of teachers in the country. In 1999, for instance, 1300 teachers were lost from the teaching service while only 900 were trained - a net loss to the system therefore of 400. There is no doubt that many of these teachers were casualties of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The workshop participants unanimously agreed that in the crisis situation arising from HIV/AIDS universities have two key roles to play. They must contribute effectively to preventing the further spread of the epidemic and in managing its impacts; and this they must do both within their own institutions and within the society they serve. The participating universities attach the highest priority to the achievement of these objectives. As responsible educators and researchers in their respective communities, they recognise their responsibility to commit their intellectual resources and energies to reducing the spread of HIV infection, caring for the infected and affected, and providing support. They intend to develop policies and management structures that will take adequate account of HIV/AIDS; to mainstream HIV/AIDS perspectives into the professional training of all students at all levels; to increase their research activity in HIV/AIDS; and to engage in dialogue and outreach activities in their AIDS-affected communities and societies.
The participating universities and the Association of Commonwealth Universities invite all other institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to subscribe to this vision and commitment so that all may work collaboratively to conquer HIV/AIDS as an epidemic in universities, in communities and in society world-wide.
Click on the icons to download the full report:
|
|
|
Click here to download the participant contact list:
|
|
? |
|
|
|
|
|
