World Aids Day Prayer Service Poster
The IHM Sisters have prepared a prayer service for World AIDS Day and invite you use it or something similar in your own setting. World AIDS Day, 1st December, is noted throughout the World, remembering the millions of people who…
Orphans and vulnerable children in the Diocese of Kroonstad, Free State
October 2013 Priscilla Rakhetsti of the SACBC AIDS Office visited Sasolburg, Deneysville, Parys, Vredefort, Heilbron, Edenvale, Bothaville , Viljoenskroon, Kroonstad and Virginia in the Diocese of Kroonstad which oversees an extensive orphans and vulnerable children project. These sites are in…
Dundee mentor mothers meet University of the Free State
On Thursday 24 October 2013 a small group of lecturers from the School of Nursing at the University of the Free State visited the Mentor Mother’s project in Dundee. The purpose of the trip was to visit NGOs with promising…
SACBC ART Nurses workshop
The past week the SACBC AIDS Office conducted a small workshop for some of the SACBC ART project’s nurses (2 from each site). The workshop focussed on the core standards for health establishments prescribed by the DOH. As a result…
THE SACBC ART PROGRAM: MEETING NEEDS IN COLLABORATION WITH GOVERNMENT
Johan Viljoen The SACBC’s ARV treatment program began in February 2004 with funding obtained from Cordaid (Netherlands). Five home based care projects were selected, using a courier laboratory services to do tests, and a courier pharmaceutical supplier to provide ARV’s….
News from the Tiyimiseleni Orphanage Project
September started off with Arbour week, the ideal week to plant trees and shrubs in South Africa. The staff of Singita bought some trees to be planted specifically at this time of the year, and came to the Centre so…
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe visits Tapologo, Diocese of Rustenburg
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe visited Tapologo, Phokeng, Diocese of Rustenburg, Tuesday 8 October 2013, accompanied by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, North West Premier Thandi Modise and North West MEC for Health Masike. Other dignitaries of the National Department of Health,…
TB and HIV Training at Mariannhill
Nondumiso Jwara organised and supervised TB and HIV training for 34 caregivers at Tre Fontane, Mariannhill from 06 – 12 October 2013. In attendance were the following sites: Christ the King; Duduza Care Centre; KwaKristo Umsindisi; Noyi Bazi clinic; Sacred…
SACBC ART Program: a Snapshot
Over the past ten years the SACBC AIDS Office has provided ARV treatment, and initiated over 45 000 patients on treatment. The programme is entering its final phase with donor funding drawing to a close by the end of May 2014. …
Telling our stories well
Nondumiso Jwara of the AIDS Office and CRS partners from other organisations attended a training from 15 to 19 September 2013 on creative writing and photography. The aim of the training was to capacitate CRS partners in documenting the good…