Wema Sanga, senior volunteer leader of the HIV patient advocacy group PIUMA, addressed members of the Austrian parliament and others concerned about HIV-AIDS in Tanzania.
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Highlands Hope of Tanzania's regular meeting of nurse-counsellors at Ikonda coincided with World AIDS Day this year with a special focus on the rights of children, especially those with HIV and those orphaned by the disease.
A busy weekend in Njombe for Montreal nursing PhD candidate Sylvie Lambert who is in Tanzania working on pain management issues with Highlands Hope of Tanzania nurse-counsellors.
Sylvie Lambert is the second holder of the McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope Fellowship and is working to develop training resources for HIV nurse-counsellors in partnership with Highlands Hope of Tanzania.
Tanzanian and Austrian volunteers with PIUMA recognized for international solidarity in the fight against HIV-AIDS in Tanzania.
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.
