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Children & HIV/Aids

Links to reports on child and HIV/AIDS issues published on external websites

Swaziland venue for Grandmother Summit

Special interest groups of grandmothers, from 12 different countries, meet to discuss how Aids affects grandparents lives.

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Guardian Newspaper UK
The “invisible” effect of HIV/AIDS on families

A worker from Tariro, a Zimbabwean CBO, working with girls to emphasize the importance of women’s education as an effective response to the AIDS epidemic, compares the situation in Sengal and Zimbabwe and sees a vision of Africa without Aids.

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Tariro - Zimbabwe

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Your Current News Stories on Memory Book work

Below are a list of stories and news we have received from you. Click on heading for the full story.
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03/08/2013 - 00:15

With the translation of the Memory Book guide into Acholi and Ateso the Memory Book is now available to five communities in Uganda.

01/22/2013 - 17:11
Mindset Memory Book day
Maureen Mugisha runs Mindset in Entebbe - a very busy training project for young women- and she really deserved to have a rest in her Christmas holidays. But instead, on 24th December, Maureen ran a Memory Book training day.........
01/18/2013 - 17:06

The latest translation of the Memory Book is in Runyankore, a abntu language spoken by people in south west Uganda. A thank you goes to Hubert Agumya and Nicholas Katwesigye for making the translation.

01/15/2013 - 22:42
Mindset Memory Book day
As part of TALC's e-TALC project a small section of their ISSUE 12 edition CD has a taster of the Memory Book materials
11/21/2011 - 17:40
still from Memory Books film by Christa Graf

This beautiful film, made in Uganda, shows parents and children working together to create their family’s Memory Book. The film shows how doing this work together helps parents to talk openly with their children about HIV in the family.

10/17/2011 - 15:02
Henning Mankell  -author detective fiction
Henning Mankell, famous swedish author of the popular "Wallander" detective novels, has wriiten a few words about the Memory Book. He considers it a very significant book in the work of helping people with HIV-aids.
10/26/2010 - 15:53
child pointing at chart in Memory Book workshop
NACOA has brought Memory Books training to remote island people of lake Victoria, Uganda. NACOA (National Coalition of Women living with HIV and Aids in Uganda) is run by and for women with HIV/Aids.
02/08/2010 - 23:34
reverend gideon byamugishaThe Rev Gideon Byamugisha, a Ugandan who became the first known African cleric to declare publicly he was HIV-positive
01/30/2009 - 00:07
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"Sowing seeds of better and more positive parenting in our society" This is the aim of Adilisha, a Tanzanian NGO based in Mwanza. It promotes family well-being through advocacy of children and creative projects with young people.

01/28/2009 - 15:51

Another translation of the Memory Book is on its way to being completed. Care Cambodia has funding for translating the Memory Book into Khmer.

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Beatrice Were

An international human rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS activist

Beatrice Were speaks from personal experience, explaining why Memory Books and this website are so important in helping parents and their children living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and around the world.

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