Sinakekele Children is a ministry and Non-Profit Organisation concerned with caring for abandoned babies and children, many of whom are directly affected by HIV/AIDS.

The Anglican Church has announced plans to launch a US $10 million HIV/AIDS education initiative in southern Africa, the South African Press Association reported.

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.

The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA) recently released a report on their Research Project - Churches and HIV/AIDS. This research project explored how local churches integrate HIV/AIDS into the life and ministries of the church and how those directly affected by HIV/AIDS experience this integration.

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.

An HIV-positive South African priest has co-founded a network to provide "non-judgemental" support for religious leaders living with HIV/AIDS.

The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA) held a mini-conference during February 2004, focusing on the links between gender, poverty and HIV/AIDS. The conference was hosted by PACSA as a result of a research process the organisation underwent with 30 women living in the Mpumuze semi-rural area outside Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.

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 “Building Partnerships for HIV/AIDS Management in KZN?, and was facilitated by HIVAN’s Community Responses research team.

Questions you’ve always wanted to ask your religious leader about HIV/AIDS but were afraid to ask … was the focus of the July 2004 Forum of Faith-leaders and HIV/AIDS researchers, co-hosted by the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) and HIVAN, and held at Durban’s Temple David.

When the “who’s who? of Africa’s church leadership met in Nairobi last month to consider the role of the church in the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the event was characterised by a transparency on sexuality that only the enormous tragedy that is sweeping the continent could have induced. Widely practised customs such as polygamy, wife-inheritance and cross-generational sex came under scrutiny.