Track 4 – Best Practices and Programme
Requiring a Uniting Response – together making a difference. Social Grants and Community Mobilisation with Local Government Services Background: “It is the children who suffer.” (Mail & Guardian February 25 to March 3 2005; p10) A Youth community project taking…
Sisters for Sisters: Religious Congregations affected and infected by AIDS
Sr Alison Munro, OP, SACBC AIDS Office, Pretoria. The time in which we find ourselves in Southern Africa today is a time of profound challenge to the Church. AIDS has impacted on every level of society, every class of people,…
The AIDS Relief Team
The AIDSRelief Team (SACBC, CRS, IYD) in South Africa Press Release Immediate, Wednesday, November 30, 2005 Sizanani Village, Bronkhorstspruit AIDSRelief: working towards sustainable provision of ART “Reiterating its role in the fight against HIV/AIDS pandemic, AIDSRelief a faith-based programme operating…
Public Sector Antiretroviral Therapy Rollout
Public Sector Antiretroviral Therapy Rollout in Amajuba District, KZN, South Africa One year into the implementation of the antiretroviral therapy (ART) rollout program, Amajuba District’s treatment facilities are learning from the mistakes of the first few months and beginning to…
The Catholic Church and the provision of antiretroviral treatment
Sr Alison Munro, OP Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Pretoria March 2005 Summary The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) embarked over the past eighteen months on an anti-retroviral programme in twenty two sites, in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland,…
SOUTHERN.AFRICAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE (SACBC)
Media Release Immediate, Soweto, Sunday 30 January 2005 Catholic Bishops announce the launch of their Antiretroviral programmes in 22 sites in Southern Africa Thirty bishops, clergy and religious, and thousands of people were present when the SACBC announced the official…
TURNING OF THE TIDE
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SACBC FUNDED ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT PROGRAMMES Download Here
Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) Media Statement
Pretoria, IMMEDIATE, 20 January 2005 The Catholic Church in Southern Africa confronts the Stigma of HIV Assembled on the occasion of their plenary session, the Catholic Bishops of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, will celebrate the Eucharist on 30 January…
Mapping Study
RESPONSES OF THE CHURCHES TO HIV and AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA REPORT PREPARED FOR THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ECUMENICAL HIV/AIDS INITIATIVE IN AFRICA DR. SUE PARRY January 2005 RESPONSES OF THE CHURCHES TO HIV AND AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA….
Report of the SACBC AIDS Office, December 2004
Prevention, Care, Support While there are small signs that the rate of HIV infection is beginning to slow down among young people, there remains an enormous amount of work to be done to help young people remain uninfected. Education for…