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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.”
Mthatha community conversation
Sept 23, 2008 – “This is not the freedom our leaders before us fought for. AIDS is killing us but we seem as if we don’t care. Let’s get together and fight this disease!”
A crowd of 400 people applauded these words from a young woman at the community conversation held in Mthatha on September 3.
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