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HIV infections drop significantly in SA
New study reveals a 60% decline among young people By CLAIRE KEETON - Jun 20, 2010 New HIV infections in South Africa dropped by 35% between 2002 and 2008, a new study reveals. The most striking reduction was a 60% decline among 15 to 24-year-olds. These results - obtained from analysing three nat
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International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
16 May 2010 The annual Candlelight Memorial continues as the longest running public event for HIV and AIDS awareness since inception in 1983 and is still the largest grassroots movement against HIV, spreading hope, and uniting countries and communities to honour and remember loved ones and comp
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Vana Vetu Progresses
The Vana Vetu OVC Children’s programme is currently being implemented by 8 dioceses in South Africa: False Bay, Grahamstown, Matlosane, Natal, Port Elizabeth, St Mark Limpopo, Umzimvubu and Zululand. We have 8 Diocesan Co-ordinators (DOVC), 38 Team Leaders and 138 Child Care Workers (CCWs). In
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Summit of High Level Religious Leaders on the Response to HIV
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Netherlands, 22-23 March 2010 Dear friends, I bring greetings to you all from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. I also want to express my thanks to the organisers of this Summit, for arranging such a valuable programme – and therefore I’d particularly
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Anglican Archbishop criticises promiscuity
4 February 2010 Promiscuity, unfaithfulness and unprotected sex are an offence against the sanctity of life, according to the head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba made the remarks in a “moral state of the nation address” delivered at an interfaith function in J
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Anglican Aids and Healthcare Trust optimistic about future
The Anglican Aids and Healthcare Trust (AAHT) sponsored a Dissemination Workshop for the DfID-funded Siyakha Programme – a comprehensive HIV & AIDS programme - in Johannesburg 28 -30 September 2009. The purpose of the workshop was to share the “best practices” developed. Reports
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Press Release from Archbishop Thabo Makgoba – Siyakha Programme Workshop
The Archbishop of Cape Town has thanked the British Government and its tax-payers for their support of his church’s work with those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. Speaking in Johannesburg on Monday evening, 28 September, at a workshop run by the Anglican AIDS and Healthcare Trus
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Statement from the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, on H1N1 ‘swine’ flu
Thursday 20 August 2009 A number of clergy have asked how we should respond to the outbreak of H1N1 or ‘swine’ flu, especially in the light of the recent statement issued by the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, which recommended the suspension of the sharing of the chalice at communion.
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New Curriculum for Parents
Siyafundisa has just discovered a new (to South Africa) programme to complement and reinforce its on-going HIV youth prevention programmes (Peer Education and Life Skills) and the training of priests that it does in conjunction with these. The programme, “Families Matter,” was developed and te
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Siyafundisa Sponsors Holiday Camps
All across South Africa during the June/July School Holidays, youth from Siyafundisa’s Peer Education and Life Skills programmes were gathering together for Holiday Camps. These camps were designed to build interest and engagement in these programmes. Lessons were interspersed with devotion
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