Reports from the AIDS Support

Reshma reports: Last February I was tested and found out that I was HIV positive.

During the journey through the slums, Father Gerhard and his brother are confronted with pure poverty.

AIDS treatment saves lives

Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) can completely change the life of an AIDS patient who would otherwise be doomed to die soon, allowing him or her to continue…

5 Years of Blessed Gérard's Hospice HAART Programme Service

On 5 August 2003, BBC Newsnight broadcast the programme "BBC Newsnight 5 August 2003: Hilary Andersson reported from the first national AIDS…

15 years of service of Blessed Gérard's HIV/AIDS Awareness Programme

In 1994, our newsletter said: "Eighteen members of our fraternity participated in a course for trainers in AIDS prevention,…

AIDS patients are treated through the HAART programme, the use of highly effective antiretroviral drugs. By taking these drugs regularly, infected people can live up to 25 years longer in good health.…

We celebrated World AIDS Day with a "Celebration of Life" for all our patients on HAART.

A large group of 70 patients came to the celebration. This is more than half of all our patients in the HAART…

Lindani*, a little girl, was brought to us by her mother. She had the "usual" symptoms, like diarrhoea and vomiting. The little girl does not look well and is quite weak. In addition, her skin is…

What most people do not see.

Mpume was 16 years old and a very pretty girl; she lived with her mother, her three siblings and three cousins - the children of her late aunt - in the vast hilly…