Police have detained Jackson Mbogela, director of PIUMA, in Iringa for questioning. PIUMA is meeting today to discuss how to react to this infringement of Mr. Mbogela's human rights and its own right to organize without intimidation from local authorities.
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PIUMA, the Bulongwa area HIV citizens-activist group, continues its outreach to villages in Makete District, bringing its message to "test and live in hope" to hundreds of people.
Today, EAWM learned that after more than 5 months the blood biochemistry equipment and internet equipment that was illegally impounded was finally handed over to PIUMA by Bulongwa Lutheran Hospital.
PIUMA clinic director Jackson Mbogela insists that the Prime Minister meet people living with HIV-AIDS during his visit to Bulongwa.
A brief update on various projects underway with Highlands Hope including the arrival in Njombe of the first McGill Nurses' Highlands Hope Fellowship recipient, Christina Clausen.
Terry’s Tanzania
In January 2006, Montreal’s famed Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) traveled to the Southern Highlands of the East African nation of Tanzania to visit Highlands Hope.
He captured the beauty, the heartbreak and the courageous determination of Highlands Hope activists like nurse Betty Liduke, community-organizer Jackson Mbogela, and the men, women and children who make the Makete and Njombe Districts of Tanzania a very special place.
