11/30/2011 • 3:00 pm Comments Off on Invitation for those in Cape Town
All are invitedThursday 1st December 20117:30pmSt. Mary of the Flight into Egypt Cathedral, Cape Town.076 399 1015 (Sr. Margaret)
Filed under: HIV and AIDS, Networking, Reflection, Archbishop Stephen Brislin, cape town, catholic aids network, Church Matters, people living with the virus, south africa, World AIDS Day
11/27/2011 • 10:53 pm Comments Off on HNU Alumni- and Campus Club in Cape Town
After leaving the township of Khayelitsha, the HNU delegation continued to the town of Stellenbosch, where they had a brief walk and lunch in the lovely city centre before visiting Stellenbosch
University’s Lückhoff School. Stellenbosch University’s Dr. Jerome Slamat, Senior Director Community Interaction, presented Stellenbosch University’s CSR and HOPE projects. Then Reverend
Stefan Hippler, Chair of HOPE Cape Town Trust, and Dr. Sadeeka Williams, medical advisor of HOPE Cape Town, presented the Hope Cape Town project which aims at treatment and increasing knowledge about the prevalent HIV / Aids problem in the townships. Prof. Bernd Rosenkranz, Stellenbosch University, Division of Pharmacology, showed us the e-learning program for township clinics and community health care workers. Rev. Hippler and Prof. Rosenkranz accompanied the HNU group to Solms Delta Farm & Wine Estate in Franschoek where Hilko Hegewisch explained the history of the Western Cape in the Solms Delta Museum. During the wonderful dinner, Craig MacGillivray, CEO of Solms Delta, explained how the owners found 2000 year old relics
of farming in this area when renovating the buildings. They invested lots of money and paid special attention to detail to make the farm a unique jewel. They have succeeded in integrating the farm’s history and its people (owners and workers) into the new concept of hospitality present in its current restaurant and winery. During the dinner, participants shared their impressions with Consul General Hans-Werner Bussmann and his wife and made plans for cooperation with Rev. Stefan Hippler and Prof. Rosenkranz. Two additional guests, Eric Du Plessis, CEO of the Headway Group and Kai von Pannier from the Mineseeker Foundation, told the group about their development projects on coconut plantations in Mozambique where they are aiming to establish self-sustaining business (so called “aidfree” zones).
Filed under: HIV and AIDS, HIV Prevention, HIV Treatment, Medical and Research, Networking, Reflection, Aids, e-learning, hiv, HOPE Cape Town Association & Trust, Neu Ulm, Stellenbosch
11/22/2011 • 10:47 pm Comments Off on AIDS an ethical problem, so the Pope
Pope Benedict XVI signed a Catholic Church pledge for Africa in Benin last week. The document reflects on the recommendations of the African Synod in 2009. Addressing the issue of AIDS, this document says the syndrome is, above all, an ethical problem and calls for changes in behavior, including sexual abstinence and rejection of promiscuity. Many remember that on his first trip to Africa in 2009, the pope stirred controversy when he suggested to reporters on his plane that condoms aggravate the AIDS problem. He has since seemed to back off from that position, and has not even mentioned condoms during this visit.
Filed under: HIV and AIDS, HIV Prevention, HIV Treatment, Reflection, Africa, Aids, benedikt XVI, catholic church, Church Matters, condom, hiv, theology
11/13/2011 • 9:38 am Comments Off on Aftermath….
5 weeks on the road – coming home means not only being fairly exhausted, but also happy to have achieved most set goals: It also means to write reports to the boards, to follow-up with those you promised to keep in touch, to sort out the next steps and last but not least to tackle what is already waiting for you since you left your desk five weeks ago.
The process of restructuring HOPE Cape Town also needs decisions to take and discussions to lead and as the year is coming to an end, the annual report for the trust is also waiting to be written, together with a piece for the explizit.net website and an article for a publication commemorating the 150th anniversary of the German catechetical association. Blessings, services and weddings are also waiting to be prepared – so resting is not an option for the coming week.
But I am grateful for all and everybody I was able to see, speak, encounter in the last weeks – it is amazing how enriched life can be when one is in constant touch with people from all walks of life. A special thanks to the Koblenzer AIDShilfe for their preparation regarding the AIDS action day on the national flower show in Germany and for Viola Klein with Andreas Moench, Saxonia Systems, HOPE Kapstadt Stiftung for the HOPE Gala in Dresden – what an event. Dresden you can be proud of your people.
Filed under: HIV and AIDS, HOPE Cape Town Association & Trust, HOPE Gala Dresden, Networking, Reflection, Uncategorized, HOPE Cape Town Association & Trust, HOPE Gala Dresden, HOPE Kapstadt Stiftung, Koblenzer AIDS Hilfe, saxonia systems
11/05/2011 • 5:44 pm Comments Off on In between: interesting news from around the globe
This are different links leading to interesting and important news in the field of HIV and AIDS. Sometimes it is important to see, that there are encouraging news – even if it does not happen today or tomorrow. HOPE is the motor of life.
* HIV Drug Delivery Patch in the Pipeline
* Legal matters: AIDS Is Not an “Automatic Death Sentence”
* HIV Therapeutic Vaccine Shows Signs of Promise
* Gold Drug Shows HIV Eradication Potential
Filed under: HIV and AIDS, HIV Prevention, HIV Treatment, Medical and Research, Networking, Politics and Society, Reflection, Society and living environment, Uncategorized, academic, Aids, Canada, cure, hiv, HIV Treatment, law, people living with the virus, research, vaccine
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