A look at the life of a member of the HIV-AIDS self-help group PIUMA, part of the Highlands Hope network in southern Tanzania.
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PIUMA has established clear policies to promote accountability and prevent corruption, including a focus on financial transparency and a commitment to following best practices in money management. Its 2007 books have received a passing grade from an independent auditor.
Edtorialists at This Day newspaper decry bureaucratic incompetence and cite PIUMA's struggle with port authorities as symptomatic of larger problems.
A report by Wema Sanga on the protest delegation of PIUMA at the Arusha gathering of the ELCT (in Kiswahili).
Sylvie Lambert, McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope Fellow in 2007, reports that Highlands Hope work on pain management education will be featured at the "Future Nursing and Health Workforce: a Global Challenge Conference" in Toronto later this summer. June 8, 2008
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.
