Health care workers’ training: Aliwal, Queenstown, Port Elizabeth
On Sunday 17 March and Monday 18 March Johan Viljoen of the SACBC AIDS Office attended the beginning of the week-long training for health workers in the DFID-funded TB program. Training was conducted by the Foundation for Professional Development, for…
Preventing the Transmission of TB in the Ethembeni HIV Clinic
The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) through the Centocow Development Programme (CPD) with funds from PEPFAR provides support to the St Apollinaris Hospital for its HIV care and treatment programme. St Apollinaris is the public hospital that serves the…
The Response of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg
Archdiocese of Johannesburg and AIDS The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Johannesburg has made a major contribution to the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s. We note here some of the more well-known projects that have left their…
Aliwal Diocese Welfare & Development Committee AIDS Office
• General Education Support: During the end of the term children were assisted with examination preparation and revision for subjects including mathematics, science, English Xhosa and Sotho. Group and individual discussions were done with the use of study guides. Some…
Homepan visitors roll up their sleeves
Visitors from Homeplan in Holland and South Africa, and from the SACBC AIDS Office visited the Makhundu Christian Centre Malelane in the Inkomazi District, Witbank Diocese, on a Homeplan building trip. It was a great experience to share in the…
How HIV Changes Faith
Br Philippe Denis from Pietermaritzburg presented research findings of a study conducted in KwaZulu-Natal illustrating how faith is changed by HIV. He was one of the speakers at the joint conference hosted by St Joseph’s Theological Institute at Cedara, and…
The SACBC Antiretroviral programme 2004-2013
The SACBC AIDS Office began its ARV treatment programme in 2003 with funding from CORDAID which laid the foundation for the PEPFAR funded programme begun in 2004. The PEPFAR grant is ending in May 2013, with six sites having been…
Modjadiskloof children receive new school uniforms
Children in Modjadjis Kloof, Diocese of Tzaneen were assisted with new school uniforms at the start of the new school year. The AIDS project in Modjadjiskloof is supported with funding from The Global Fund. Sr Theresa Byrne is seen with…
A House, A Home, A Future.
The SACBC AIDS Office “Houses for Orphans” program has, to date, built nearly 200 houses for destitute AIDS orphans, either in orphan headed households, or living with elderly grandparents. A further 80 houses are currently under construction, or planned for…
Mud House Replaced for Sealoma Family in Thaba Nchu, Bloemfontein
February 2013 New house built by Batho Ba Lerato Thaba Nchu (Ratlou Location), Archdiocese of Bloemfontein In the Sealoma household, there are nine people living under the same roof. The head of the household is a granny of 67 years…