Programme News

TAF/NACOPHA Fight to Ensure and Restore Public’s Confidence in Antiretroviral Drug Supply

Rehema,* a widow with two children living with HIV in Tanzania, is relieved that she won’t have to lose any more sleep worrying about what would happen to her children if she becomes ill due to taking mislabelled antiretroviral medications, thanks to the quick thinking and staunch advocacy of the Network of People Living with HIV in Tanzania, and the Tanzanian AIDS Foundation (TAF).

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NEPWHAN advocates for women’s rights "in a man’s world".

“In Africa it is a man’s world, a man’s thing,” Peter Nweke of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPHWAN) said to a camera focused closely on his face. “At is very difficult for a woman, especially a women in the community in a rural area to have that ability to negotiate for her rights, especially when she is under the man.”

Positive Press for RNP+ and LTA Programme in Senegal

The National Network of PLHIV in Senegal (RNP+) received great praise in the major national newspaper that also reported on some of key findings uncovered by research RNP+ conducted since joining the HIV Leadership through Accountability (LTA) programme. The LTA programme is funded by UKAID from DFID to support communities to develop the capacity to demand good governance.

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PLHIV Advocacy in Nigeria stops HIV criminalisation being made law

PLHIV advocates in Nigeria have effectively stopped sections of a law that would criminalise HIV exposure and transmission. During a consultation on the new Nigerian anti-HIV discrimination bill, that took place on 5 and 6 February 2013, the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) presented results and recommendations from the PLHIV Stigma Index. This and other evidence, clearly shows both the ineffectiveness of HIV criminalization laws and the potential harmful consequences of such misguided legislation.

Cameroonian Roadmap to combat HIV Stigma and Discrimination Launched

Shortly after New Years Day, 2013, 30 year-old Emmanuel Eyo committed suicide by throwing his body into the raging waters of the Wouri River in Douala, Cameroon.

Emmanuel left a message behind: “I am tired of being ill-treated and falsely accused of being mentally ill and being treated with such scorn because of rumours that I am an HIV seropositive patient.”