Veneranda Sanga, age 17, died in February, a victim of the substandard health care available from local health authorities and institutions in Bulongwa. This Day newspaper in Dar es Salaam has published an account of her death and the corruption and incompetence that contribute
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These updates are arriving from Juma Nzige, Clinical Officer with PIUMA via Vicky Ntetema in Dar es Salaam and Jackson Mbogela, member of the PIUMA Advisory Board in the Netherlands.
Veneranda Sanga was one of the youngest members of PIUMA, an HIV patient activist group in Makete District. All of us who met her are saddened and angered by her needless death. Her very short life is a testament to the fact that incompetence and corruption in parts of the health care system are allowing men, women, and children in Tanzania to die from AIDS well before thier time. Thanks to Ikonda Hospital for trying to save Veneranda, alas, too late.
Betty Liduke has been recognized for her leadership in HIV-AIDS awareness and care by Femina HIP, one of Tanzania's most effective activist organizations.
Tasilo Mdamu,Secretary of Highlands Hope of Tanzania, has sent the minutes of the last meeting of Highlands Hope of Tanzania that included a presentation by McGill nursing students Jacquie Bocking and Andra Leimanis.
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.
