Catholic Church Partners with the Government to Combat TB in South Africa.
SACBC Staff Working in the TB Project. TB is one of the killer diseases in South Africa. When it has been discovered early, and one adheres faithfully to the treatment, a person can fully recover from TB and be completely cured. …
SACBC AIDS Office AIDS Office Annual Report 2016
Sr Alison Munro OVC PROGRAMME The OVC Programme has been supported by three PEFPAR District Partners since October 2015, i.e. Aurum, Health Systems Trust and Beyond Zero. From October 2016, a fourth PEPFAR partner was added, TBHIV Care,…
21st International AIDS Conference, Durban, July 2016
Sr Alison Munro, OP Hundreds of journalists present at the 21st International AIDS Conference ensured that the world was kept informed of the developments in scientific research into new drugs and vaccine trials, and of gains made in programmes reducing…
Pope Francis sends message to Catholic Pre Conference on AIDS
Catholic AIDS Conference, July 2016 Sr Alison Munro The Catholic Pre Conference ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Durban in July heard a message from Pope Francis, read by the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Peter Wells, encouraging “the Bishops of…
SACBC AIDS OFFICE REPORT, JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2015
PEPFAR The antiretroviral (ART) programme which has been supported by PEPFAR since 2004 came to an end in May 2015. More than 45 000 people have been initiated on ART at…
SACBC AIDS Office Report, December 2014
Sr Alison Munro Antiretroviral (ART) Programme The ART programme of the SACBC AIDS Office was considerably down-scaled during 2014, and the patients of a number of sites transferred to Department of Health clinics. The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) approved…
Good Governance doesn’t just happen
Training in the demands and expectations around good governance was provided at Good Shepherd Retreat near Hartbeespoort by Rural Development Support Programme for a number of AIDS projects supported through the SACBC AIDS Office. Participants learned about managing projects openly…