Community reports from Zambia

Action: Call for Best Practices in Challenging Gender Dynamics within a Cultural Context in ZimbabweSAfAIDS Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) is a regional organisation, within whose core business lies the mandate to repackage, develop and document quality and target specific information, addressing the diverse information and capacity needs of HIV and AIDS in the southern African region. SAfAIDS is developing a Booklet on gender, cultu

Perspective: TB anywhere is TB everywhere: so make it your businessBeatrice Tonhodzayi, SAfAIDS Some years ago my brother succumbed to Tuberculosis. It was not an easy time for the family seeing him suffer ill health intermittently before he was diagnosed with TB. And then it was the treatment, six whole months of taking drugs.I remember as if it were yesterday accompanying him to the local clinics every morning because back then, one had to go in for their TB me

News: HIV positive woman’s case postponed againThe Herald2 April 2008 *Bulawayo Bureau - A Woman who was last year convicted of having unprotected sex with her lover well knowing that she was HIV positive had her case postponed again to April 25 as the court awaits her lover’s second HIV test results. The 26-year-old woman who resides in Nkulumane pleaded guilty to deliberately infecting another person with HIV before Bulawayo regional magistrate, Mr Cephas Masaka Sibanda.

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (8)R. Mazikana *My comment is that, my friends what you are saying is true about the political support on HIV and AIDS issues. If you noticed the support that was given about “hondo yeminda” - every radio station was playing that music and even on the news, it was all about “hondo yeminda” to the extent that even a grade one pupil would understand the message. I think we need the same aggressive approach on HIV and AIDS iss

News: No documents? No treatmentIRIN PlusNews, South Africa28 March 2008 *JOHANNESBURG (PlusNews) - Linda was already sick when she arrived in Johannesburg from Zimbabwe, but she did not know her HIV status. After months of sleeping rough in a park her health deteriorated further and she finally plucked up the courage to go for an HIV test at an inner-city clinic."I had to wait for two weeks to get the results and I did not get counselling," Linda recalled. "The nurse wh

Comment: Why Women or Girls? (2)Munyaradzi Chimwara It is a fact that demand drives supply (women are on the streets because of men) but it is also a fact that a decline on the supply chain can have an effect on the demand side.I agree wholly with Believe that men should be responsible enough to look after their children that they father with women. But, I must point out that the lack of a male breadwinner is no justification for commercial sex work! Some sex workers

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (7)Believe Dhliwayo That’s true Innocent, the ignorance of the educated is that they always take important things for granted. Reaching out and convincing a middle class or high class working African man to respond to HIV and AIDS issues has been a challenge over years, having done 101 workplace HIV and AIDS trainings, I have discovered that they need more empowerment and training to embrace the fact that HIV is a reali

Action: SAfAIDS calls for organisations in southern Africa to be distribution partners/hubsSylvia Samu, SAfAIDS *SAfAIDS is inviting interested organisations to express an interest in becoming its Distribution hubs/partners in the following countries Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Established in 1994, Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) is a regional non

Comment: Africa: Why HIV and AIDS is Ravaging Continent (6)Believe Dhliwayo The denial that still exists among humanity is in this way, if you are in the Western countries HIV and AIDS is generally considered a white Gay disease. I had an opportunity to talk to folks who were born and lived in the Western countries most of their lives. As I tried to enquire their understanding and thinking about HIV and AIDS they convincingly said "brother, if you are married and not gay,

Comment: The designer vagina - the new way to keep your man from straying? (4)Herbert Chikosi *To me the designer vagina smacks hypocrisy of the devil quoting a verse from the Holy Bible to convince his congregation, because to me sexual satisfaction is driven from the mind, the brain to be precise as long as the mind assimilate that the vagina is no longer in its natural state it becomes repulsive - brain-wise it’s as clear as masturbation.I, for one, believe that the key