A three day, 96 kilometer march by PIUMA activists and Canadian friends brings HIV awareness to several villages and re-launches PIUMA voluntary counselling and testing services at the village le
Archive for 2007
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Nursing students from Vienna and medical students from McGill University to learn in Bulongwa this summer.
Good design helps PIUMA carry its message to the people of Tanzania and the world.
The District Medical Officer of Makete has approved PIUMA's request to restart clinic and village-based voluntary counselling and testing (VCT). This follows months of applications and lobbying and is a great victory for patient-based approaches to battling HIV in rural Tanzania.
The Nurse-Counsellor Network is moving from strength to strength as it elects Evangelista Kayombo as its second Chairperson and appoints pioneering HIV nurse Betty Liduke as its first coordinator.
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.
