PIUMA members are increasingly invited to be part of local and national training initiatives to fight HIV-AIDS.
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Graduating Students of Lindsay Place High School in Pointe Claire, Canada, will be holding a "24-hour Famine Fundraiser" to raise money to support Highlands Hope. April 18, 2008
PIUMA, the HIV-AIDS patients' advocacy group in Makete District, has hired a new Coordinator, Clinical Officer and VCT-Home Based Care Nurse.
A press release from Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope and McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope as they move into the second phase of the development of their project to support the networking and professional training of nurses working in hospitals and HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa through Highlands Hope of Tanzania.
PIUMA leaders discuss a number of important issues and make decisions to demand support to continue their Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centre and to focus their financial resources on the completion of the PIUMA building. Report by Witness Ngumba
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.
