Bulongwa is the home of PIUMA and Highlands Hope's most remote setting. This article by Barney Jopson describes the isolation of the people in rural Makete and the impact of HIV on communities there.
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A note from Sylvie Lambert, a Canadian nurse working with Highlands Hope of Tanzania, about Christmas with the Kibena Women's Association and the orphans that they support in Njombe.
Muhingo Rweyemamu is the editor of the weekly investigative newspaper RAI in Dar es Salaam. He has reported extensively on the HIV situation in Iringa, Njombe and Makete. This piece appeared last week in his newspaper. It was translated by Vicky Ntetema of the BBC Africa Service.
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.
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.
