News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Kimberly Burge
Washington, D.C.
April 1, 2013
Sivi, a young woman living with HIV in South
Africa and a poet who writes about her
experiences living with HIV as part of a
ground-breaking writing club for young women.
(Photo: Kimberley Burge for EGPAF)
Amazw'Entombi. That's "Voices of the Girls," in isiXhosa, one of
South Africa's eleven official languages. Amazw'Entombi was also a writing club for teen-aged girls in Gugulethu township, outside Cape Town. I established and led this club in 2010 as a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa. Half of the girls had lost their mothers to AIDS, and several are HIV positive themselves.
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Posted by
Kimberly Burge
Washington, D.C.
January 9, 2013
A woman learns about HIV medications at a
clinic in South Africa. (Photo: Jon Hrusa/EGPAF)
With the largest number of people living with HIV in the world, South Africa remains at the forefront of the battle against AIDS. But some South Africans are now taking innovative—and crucial—approaches to the fight.
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