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Child Protection Week: Empowering goGos to Protect Our Children

Published: 3 June, 2011

Why loveLife is working with a network of grandmothers to develop a generation of young people resistant to the drivers of HIV.

The South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) illustrated with frightening statistics earlier this year that “a stable family life with both parents is the privilege of a minority of children” in South Africa.

SAIRR project manager, Lucy Holborn, revealed that “there are nearly four million orphans in the country, 859 000 of whom are double orphans who have lost both their parents.”

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Enabling Healthy Lives With ARV Drugs - Video

Published: 1 June, 2011

[ in ARVs ] [ in HIV ] [ in treatment ]

Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international humanitarian medical aid organisation, created in 1971. MSF provides assistance to populations in distress, including victims of (natural) disasters, wars, conflicts, epidemics, amongst others. Its members include medical, paramedical, technical and logistical, financial, administrative employees who carry out humanitarian assistance activities in the field.

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Published: 27 May, 2011

[ in International ] [ in Antiretroviral drugs ] [ in hiv/aids ] [ in msf ] [ in treatment ]

Governments must commit to massively scale up treatment at UN Summit on AIDS

Governments will meet at the United Nations (UN) in New York for an HIV/AIDS Summit from 8 to 10 June, to discuss the global response to the epidemic over the next five to ten years.

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Empowering HIV-Patients to Manage their Care

Published: 27 May, 2011

[ in Antiretroviral drugs ] [ in hiv/aids ] [ in Mozambique ] [ in msf ] [ in treatment ]

In northern Mozambique, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is empowering HIV-patients to take an active part in managing their disease.

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10 000 T-shirts for Charities

Published: 27 May, 2011

Corporate social investment (CSI) is embedded in the DNA of Slipstream through the work that we have done in NGOs, skills centres and orphanages over the years. Recently one of our stockists has picked up the baton from us and extended the effects of what we do even further.

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Published: 24 May, 2011

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent; it is rich in diversity, abundant in ethnicity and bursting with languages. Africa Day (25 May), which marks the founding in 1963 of the Organisation of African Unity, now known as the African Union, provides an annual opportunity to reflect on the challenges and achievements of the Governments and peoples of Africa.

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Published: 22 May, 2011

Ayesha Jacub

19 May 2011

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Published: 27 April, 2011

[ in Africa ] [ in mobiles ] [ in Rural development ] [ in rural livelihoods ] [ in Technology ] [ in telecommunications ]

Over three quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas. They often lack economic opportunities, have difficulty accessing basic services, have limited voice in governance and remain extremely vulnerable to shocks.

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Fix the National Lottery Fund

Published: 23 March, 2011

[ in Lotto ] [ in NLB ] [ in NLDTF ]

Ralph Freese, a South African who recently resigned from the boards of two nonprofit organisations that depend on lottery funding, has written an open letter to the Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, asking him to ‘Fix the National Lottery Fund’. In the letter, Freese criticises the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) and the National Lotteries Board (NLB) for failing to live up to their mandate.

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Published: 1 March, 2011

The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) has once again produced an annual Development Calendar in the form of a year planner.

The 2011 SANGONeT Development Calendar covers a comprehensive list of international, African and South African dates of significance to people and organisations involved in development and civil society issues in Southern Africa.

Copies of the calendar are available for collection from the SANGONeT office in Braamfontein, free of charge.

SANGONeT's physical address is as follows:

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Liveblog Test

Published: 28 February, 2011

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Published: 17 February, 2011

(View comments by various South African NGOs in response to 2011/12 National Budget - http://www.ngopulse.org/group/budget2011)

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Parents Need Peer Education, Too

Published: 14 February, 2011

[ in family ] [ in HIV prevention ] [ in lovelife ] [ in parents ] [ in sex education ]

Ever since loveLife launched in 1999, the organisation has sought to get South Africans talking about HIV and its underlying sexual dynamics.

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Women Literacy and Development

Published: 8 February, 2011

Technology and science depend on literate people. We can't provide instructions to build and operate machines and computers and disseminate scientific knowledge without literacy...

Literacy is key to social and economic development of a country. Access to literacy is a basic step towards achieving the general well being of women. Literacy is key to sustainable development. Literacy is hence considered as a major tool in building a developed & peaceful society in the 21st Century...

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Published: 31 January, 2011

President Jacob Zuma will deliver the 2011 State of the Nation Address to a joint sitting of Parliament (the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces) on Thursday, 10 February 2011 (19h00) in Cape Town.

The State of the Nation Address serves as the official opening of Parliament for 2011.

Members of Parliament with debate the State of the Nation Address on 15 & 16 February 2011, followed by the President's official reply on 17 February 2011.

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HIV Testing: Practising What We Preach

Published: 1 December, 2010

[ in aids ] [ in Counselling ] [ in HIV ] [ in HIV Education ] [ in Practice ] [ in Preach ] [ in prevention ] [ in Testing ] [ in Voluntary ]

Our staff recently underwent a process of counselling and voluntary testing for HIV, which served to illustrate a number of important points about practising what one teaches. Being an HIV prevention programme, one of our main goals is to raise awareness in our participants – especially the teenagers in our high school programme – of the importance of knowing their HIV status. We assume that having been given basic information about the virus and the AIDS epidemic, and some encouragement to test, our participants will eagerly rush to the nearest health centre to get

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Do We Really Care?

Published: 30 November, 2010

[ in Barefoot Against Poverty ] [ in CIVICUS ] [ in human rights ] [ in Universal Declaration Human Rights ]

By Rowena McNaughton, CIVICUS media officer

He stands with his head down, cloaked in a threadbare T-shirt and cotton pants held precariously in place with a piece of twine. His eyes stare vacantly at the steady stream of traffic that moves pass him. When the traffic lights turn from green to red, he begins his slow walk from car to car. With one hand resting on his slim frame at his hollow stomach, and the other arm outstretched, the figure asks quietly for spare change at each car window. “Please, I am hungry,” he says.

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80 Cape Town Homeless Locked Up

Published: 29 November, 2010

We need your support, we have a database of 25 people who came to our offices to report the "clean up" operation that took place on Thursday night in Cape Town and get support in retreiving their property and vent their frustration.

1. It was reported that the following organisations played a role in this operation - DFU, CCID, Law Enforcement and SAPS.

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SANGONeT Development Calendar 2011

Published: 16 November, 2010

[ in Civil society ] [ in NGOs ] [ in South Africa ]

The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) is currently compiling its 2011 Development Calendar, which will once again be produced in the form of a year planner.

The Calendar, to be released in January 2011, will cover a comprehensive list of international, African and South African dates (e.g. World AIDS Day, 1 December) of significance to people and organisations involved in development and civil society issues.

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Published: 10 November, 2010

[ in Protection of Information Bill ] [ in R2K ]

After a Week of Action to protest the Protection of Information Bill (the secrecy Bill) the Right2Know Campaign has emerged as a vibrant campaign with significant influence in the public discourse. This rapid growth has raised a number of questions and the R2K has called for a National Dialogue amongst campaign supports to deliberate on matters of the Campaign's scope, strategy, and structure .

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