– Sr Alison Munro Dilemmas faced by personnel providing ARV treatment in church facilities. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding to the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) AIDS Office supports several Anti Retroviral (ARV) treatment sites…
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding to the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) AIDS Office supports several Anti Retroviral (ARV) treatment sites and satellite centers in South Africa. Download Here
A. PROGRAMMES Anteretroviral (ARV) Treatment Programme This President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)/Centre for Disease Control (CDC) – funded programme remains the largest programme of the SACBC. There are fourteen sites, each of them operating in several outreach centres,…
Role of Sex, Pregnancy, and CD4 Count Bingxia Wang, PhD,1, 3 Elena Losina, PhD,3, 4, 6 Ruth Stark, PhD,7 Alison Munro,8 Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH,1,2, 3, 5 Marisa Wilke,7 Des Martin,9 Zhigang Lu, MD,1 Kenneth A. Freedberg, MD, MSc,1,…
Bishop Kevin Dowling, 3 February 2010 Address at dinner, SACBC/CRS Partnership Conference, 3 February 2010 My dear sisters and brothers, friends, In a recent edition of Time Magazine, dated 18 January 2010, I came across an article headed “The New…
Good treatment outcomes among foreigners receiving antiretroviral therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa. Download Here
ART PROGRAMME Update on sites and satellites 2009 marked the transition from “PEPFAR 1” (the first 5-year PEPFAR grant) to “PEPFAR 2 (the second 5-year PEPFAR grant). All US-based PEPFAR partners globally were instructed by the US government that their…
Authors: Ruth STARK, Catholic Relief Services, Johannesburg, South Africa Alison MUNRO, Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, Pretoria, South Africa Celicia SERENATA, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa Location of Program: South Africa Key words: transition, local,…
– Sr Alison Munro, OP SACBC AIDS Office, Pretoria, South Africa, October 2009 The SACBC AIDS Office The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) covers twenty nine dioceses in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland. Its AIDS Office attempts to co-ordinate…
Sexual autonomy, gender inequality and HIV Case study at four HIV clinics in the North-West province in South Africa Mariëlle, T.W.G Lunenburg, August, 2009 South Africa is one of the countries, which has to handle a large proportion of people…