Highlands Hope representatives complete a week of meetings with partners in Montreal and meet the Tanzanian High Commissioner to Canada.
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"We were very proud as Tanzanians to be able to speak about our work," says Jackson Mbogela, director of the PIUMA Care and Treatment Centre. "Our country has been a leader in Africa in making AIDS a priority and developing a country-wide plan through the National AIDS Control Program (NACP)."
Three members of the Highlands Hope professional team are among 24,000 researchers, clinicians and activists gathering in Toronto for the biggest conference on HIV-AIDS in the world.
The death of S., a young woman and mother who was under treatment as a patient at PIUMA's HIV clinic in Bulongwa before the lockout of staff and PIUMA volunteers by hospital authorities last April, has created sadness and anger among peopl
More than a thousand signatures on local petition demanding respect for local decision-making by people living with HIV-AIDS
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.
