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On World AIDS Day: starting where communities are
December 1, 2009 – As part of its ongoing work with communities throughout South Africa about the awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS, the Nelson Mandela Foundation convened 120 dialogues this year – 12 conversations in 10 communities in all nine provinces.
Community conversations
Dec 1, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has published a booklet describing the series of 10 community conversations on HIV/AIDS around South Africa in 2008.
In his foreword to the booklet, Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor writes: “The 2008 dialogues held in 10 community settings have created a body of knowledge that policy makers, scientists and activists will certainly find useful. Most importantly, these dialogues have helped the local participants to confront that “unspeakable” presence in their midst: HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality. They now have the potential to be empowered and to act decisively.”
Mhluzi community conversation
July 1, 2008 – The NMF Centre of Memory and Dialogue’s second community conversation on HIV prevention took place in Mhluzi on June 3, 2008. This series of 11 conversations continues work that was started in 2007, providing communities with the opportunity to talk about and tackle the epidemic.
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