BESG Special Needs Housing Programme - a response to HIV/AIDS and vulnerability
|
Posted: Friday, September 20, 2002
In 2000, the Built Environment Support Group (BESG) based at the University's of Natal's Durban campus, together with the affiliates of the Urban Sector Network (USN) embarked on a USAID-funded programme to capacitate the sector around issues of HIV/AIDS and urban development. The programme became part of a broader process to formulate a comprehensive and integrative Special Needs housing programme for BESG.
|
|
The Orphans of AIDS Trust
|
Posted: Monday, September 23, 2002
The Orphans of AIDS Trust was established to provide for the hundreds of thousands of children expected to be orphaned by AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal in the next few years.
|
|
Need for greater involvement of PWAs in NGOs
|
Posted: Friday, October 04, 2002
Reposted courtesy of IRIN PlusNews 3 Oct 2002
People living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) and employed by AIDS NGOs can be marginalised within their organisations, a new study has found.
|
|
Inkosi brings the gift of joy
|
Posted: Monday, October 07, 2002
Liz Clarke.Sunday Tribune, 6 October 2002. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.
The devastation of HIV/AIDS is most cruel in rural areas where limited resources, lack of education and unemployment wreak havoc with family stability. That is why buy-in by traditional leaders is vital in the fight against the disease.
|
|
NGOs, CBOs and business should focus on children
|
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2002
SANGONet 11 October 2002
NGOs can help alert South Africa€™s corporate sector to the need for its partnership in community-based work for the support of children affected by HIV/AIDS. There will be an estimated one million AIDS orphans in South Africa by 2005.
|
|
HIV/AIDS - the price our children pay
|
Posted: Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Judith King. HIVAN Media teamChildrenFIRST Oct/Nov 2002, Vol.6 No 45
In recognition of 6 November being International Children's Day, we have republished, with kind permission, three items featured in the October/November 2002 edition of ChildrenFIRST Journal (Vol 6 No. 45), each with a specific focus on children and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
|
|
Launching the HIV/AIDS Alliance NGO/CBO Support Toolkit
|
Posted: Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Republished courtesy of Gender-AIDS 2002
The HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO Support Toolkit is a website and CD-Rom with over 500 downloadable resources and supporting information. To access the website please go to:
|
|
December 2002 HIV/AIDS Public Health Journal Club
|
Posted: Thursday, January 02, 2003
Judith KingHIVAN Media Team
The last Journal Club meeting of the year featured Andy Gray and Dr Donnie Mcgrath from the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Natal's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in Durban. Their presentations focused on recent clinical and logistical reviews of "Making ARVs available in resource-poor settings".
|
|
Nutritional care and support training course
|
Posted: Monday, January 06, 2003
Republished courtesy of IRIN Africa PlusNews 3 January 2003
The Institute of Food, Nutrition and Family Sciences (IFNFS) at the University of Zimbabwe, in close collaboration with the International Agricultural Centre (IAC) will be holding a regional training course on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS from 20 - 31 January 2003 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
|
|
French NGO gets land to build HIV/AIDS centre
|
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2003
23 January 2003. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
Hanuman, a French NGO campaigning against HIV/AIDS has acquired land on which an HIV/AIDS therapy centre worth US $230,000 will be built. The land was granted by a presidential decree on Tuesday.
|
|
|
Previous 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next
|
