By listening to each other, we can reduce stigma and improve follow-up in HIV...
VSO Papua New Guinea’s Health Programme Manager writes about what he learned in thought-provoking debates at the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. By Sanjay Singh: July 25th, 2014...
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Clive Ingleby, VSO’s Global Adviser for Health, HIV and AIDS discusses the latest developments from the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. How times have changed. I attended my...
View ArticleCommunity caregivers essential in primary health care systems
The Caregivers Action Network (CAN) recently published its multi-country research to review community and home-based care. The research, carried out in Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa,...
View ArticleTackling a care-less development agenda
The preoccupation with economic growth as the route out of poverty often means that the contribution of unpaid work – including work caring for others - to social and economic well-being remains a...
View ArticleMozambique government approves legislation for a caregivers law
Last month, our VSO-RAISA team in Mozambique was invited to attend an annual review held at the Assembly of the Republic. We were there to witness what the Parliamentary Cabinet for the Prevention and...
View ArticleHuman rights are not selective
To mark World AIDS Day, we have a guest blogger Francois Rademayer, Director of SARPSA (Support for At Risk Populations in Southern Africa). He's working with VSO RAISA to evaluate two RAISA...
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