AIDS Trust Fund gets R195 000

The Orphans of AIDS Trust Fund has started 2003 on a high note, with R195 000 being made available to an organisation looking after orphans of AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal. The Trust received the money from the Grintek Group for funding to a community-based organisation. It will be awarded to a single organisation and disbursed over a three-year period.

NCRF Gender Network: The power of community radio in South Africa

South African community radio stations, represented by the National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) are situated in townships, peri-urban and rural areas. Their listeners are members of historically disadvantaged communities, with the total number of community radio listeners in South Africa currently standing at about three million.

WHOs 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights

The first in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Health and Human Rights Publication Series consists of suggested answers to 25 key questions which explore the linkages between different aspects of health and human rights.

Videotape resource - Just a Little Smile

A limited number of copies of "Just a Little Smile" is available for distribution to groups and networks working with young people and children affected by AIDS. This 25-minute, professionally made documentary was produced by Madoda Ncaciyana from Vuleka Productions in Durban, South Africa, as a pilot project to sensitise and train young people to respond to the psycho-social needs of vulnerable children and caregivers.

Redefining masculinity in era of HIV/AIDS

What does it mean to be a man in Southern Africa? How do young men perceive themselves as single men, husbands, fathers and breadwinners? How do these perceptions interact with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a context of poverty and unemployment?

Starfish Greathearts at the 2003 Hansa Powerade Dusi

Canoeists competing in the 2003 Dusi Marathon in January enthusiastically signed up to become "Starfish Dusi Greathearts". As such, they committed themselves to raise funds from friends, family, colleagues and companies to benefit children orphaned and left vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, through which the Dusi annually runs its course.

TAC backs threat of mass action with show of muscle

The "Stand Up For Our Lives" March, the largest-yet mobilisation for the rights of people living with HIV in this country, and which took place on Friday (14-2-03), was led by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). What is the TAC and how has it managed to mobilise such solidarity?

Hospital offers a 'pocket of hope' for those infected with HIV/AIDS

In March free anti-retrovirals will for the first time be offered to patients suffering from HIV/AIDS-related opportunistic diseases at a KwaZulu-Natal hospital.

HIV/AIDS Electronic Toolkit for Community Workers

The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) and the World YWCA are working collaboratively with the national Ys in four African countries -

HIVAN and KZNCAN launch HIV/AIDS Directory

In their ongoing effort to support and strengthen community initiatives to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis in KwaZulu-Natal, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the KwaZulu-Natal Church AIDS Network (KZNCAN), have collaborated to produce the HIVAN/KZNCAN 2003 HIV/AIDS Directory.