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.
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More than 25 widows and widowers learned how to defend their interests and those of others left alone by HIV-AIDS in a three day workshop sponsored by the Kibena Women's Association, Highlands Hope of Tanzania, and St George's Elementary School of Montreal.
New members from new organizations are expanding Highlands Hope of Tanzania with an ongoing focus on best practices and solidarity among nurses fighting the HIV battle.
Michael Wou, designer of PIUMA's new logo and one of the Canadian marchers on the July Solidarity March, has his autographed American Apparel T-shirt featured on the company's web
A Canadian partner's account of this summer's PIUMA Solidarity March. By James
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.
