New Partec POC technology holds the promise of better, more accessible care and treatment for HIV patients in Highlands Hope villages.
Archive for 2013
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McGill MSc nursing student Maggie Wilson begins her work assessing point-of-care (POC) CD4 and CD4% diagnostic technology with Highlands Hope in Njombe area villages. September 17, 2013.
The most advanced, portable CD4 and CD4% technology is to be implemented by Highlands Hope in partnership with Partec and McGill University in a new village-based approach to HIV diagnostics and care.
A second generation, beautifully designed website donated by the creative team at Plank enables the Highlands Hope Umbrella to speak to the world!
Work continues with Njombe seniors following the Day Centre model from the Jeffery Hale Hospital in Quebec City, adapted by Edmund Munubi, Betty Liduke, and George Sanga from the Highlands Hope Umbrella
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.
