Frameworks, Conventions and Resolutions: The protection of Children affected by HIV/AIDS
July 31, 2006
by Anthony Pringle
Societies are often judged on how well they protect their more vulnerable members. The protection of the less fortunate people in society is a feature of any advanced democratic system, characterised by a constitutional framework reflecting and protecting human rights, an impartial judicial system and a stalwart social services network. These key features [...]
Is prevention more sustainable than treatment, in developing countries?
June 19, 2006
by Mbonisi Zikhali (Staff Writer)
There is an old saying, which goes, Prevention is better than to cure. Indeed, to be able to prevent harm insures you against the burden of nursing injury. If we were to craftily apply this assertion in the sub-Saharan African context in relation to the inestimable wounds that communities have suffered [...]
REVIEWING GENDER INEQUALITY: An Interview With Mary Sandasi.
June 1, 2006
By Mbonisi Zikhali (Staff Writer).
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She is a big woman, in both ideas and physical frame. She is also abundantly energetic and if she had the authority, the recently elapsed Global AIDS Week of Action (20 to 26 May, 2006) would have been a month-long event.
Mary Sandasi is the executive director [...]
The Commercialization Of Childhood
May 27, 2006
by Anthony Pringle
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The HIV/AIDS tide sweeping through Africa is changing many people’s lives in a variety of different ways. But one group perhaps most seriously impacted by this epidemic is Africa’s children. HIV & AIDS have redrawn the lines of childhood, which now takes on a very different meaning for [...]
HIV/AIDS IN STONE: The story of HIV/AIDS captured by Zimbabwean sculptors.
January 11, 2006
BY VIVIENNE PRINCE.
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Widows Lament
Promoting Zimbabwean sculptors for the last five years has been one of the most challenging, enjoyable and heartbreaking experiences I’ve encountered in my humble life.
Originally from the UK, I didn’t know much about death, like most people I knew. Perhaps that’s why we’re scared of a [...]
