Reports from the AIDS Support

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…

Thomas Müller recounts how a gravely ill patient regained strength through care and antiretroviral treatment, returned to work and repaired his home.

An anonymised account in newsletter no. 26: After months of care and treatment, a seriously ill child was able to go home with her grandmother.

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…

After a serious illness, Thuli regained her strength with the support of her family and the hospice team. Six months later, she was able to return home.

In 1997, the township of Sundumbili in Mandeni was described in the South African magazine Drum as the "AIDS capital of KwaZulu/Natal". A representative test among factory workers in the iSithebe…

Qalile Uhlelo*, a 39-year-old woman, came to Blessed Gérard's Hospice in August 2004 asking for help. She was very ill and had all kinds of opportunistic infections. She openly admitted that she was…

Blessed Gérard's Hospice HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy) programme, a joint project of Blessed Gérard's Hospice and the South African Bishops' Conference has developed and matured over…