PIUMA leader Wema Sanga and Tanzanian jounalist and PIUMA advisor Muhingo Rweyemamu are touring Austria, meeting AIDS acitivists, politicians, and supporters in Vienna, Salzburg, Pöllau and Graz.
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Sylvie Lambert, a PhD candidate at the McGill School of Nursing, is the second recipient of the McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope Fellowship and leaves for Tanzania in
PIUMA, the HIV patient activist group, is launching a major campaign to get testing service to more than twenty villages in the Bulongwa area of Makete. PIUMA has been recognized by local health authorities as a valued partner in efforts to meet the goal of full testing of the entire population of Tanzania, consistent with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete's challenge.
Muhingo Rweyemamu, editor of the weekly Dar es Salaam newspaper, Rai, and founder of the new residential secondary school in Ilula, establishes scholarships for AIDS orphans in Makete District.
Nurse-counselors with Highlands Hope clinics and patient groups are working on their basic computer skills through a partnership between the Highlands Hope Nurse-Counsellor Network and McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope.
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.
