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27 May 2002

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Painting hope and memories Living with AIDS programme 78

The Children's Team from the South Coast Hospice in Port Shepstone have some 200 children on their books - children who have either been orphaned because of AIDS or who need support because their parents are HIV positive. In this audio report, we visit the home of a family of three on the lower south coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal who live in a tiny, one-roomed shack. When the caregivers give the 13-year old boy a memory box to decorate, he paints his dream - a colourful, five-roomed house for his mother, his sister and him.
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Building a working relationship

To be a nurse is a wonderful thing say Lerato Mntuyedwa a Primary Health Care Nursing Sister at Khayamandi Clinic in Stellenbosch. She says young as she was when she qualified, she had one mission: to be able to help the sick. Although demanding attitudes from patients make it hard for nurses to do their jobs, she remains committed to her task. She says in Khayamandi, the influx of people from rural areas seeking better health services adds to the pressure under which clinic nurses find themselves.
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Messages of hope for mothers-to-be

"From Mothers To Mothers To Be". This is the name of a programme operating out of the maternity section of Groote Schuur Hospital every Thursday. Each week, a group of pregnant women with HIV meet for education and counselling to help them deal positively with their status. Facilitating the programme are other women: happy mothers who want to share their skills and experiences of what they learned through the programme while they themselves were pregnant and newly diagnosed with HIV. The end goal of "From Mothers To Mothers To Be" is to prepare women for an opportunity to be put on a drug programme to prevent them from transmitting HIV to their babies. Khopotso Bodibe of Health-e News Service went along to find out more about this special service.
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Health-e staffer awarded Nieman Fellowship

Health-e editor, Sue Valentine has been awarded a Nieman Fellowship for the 2002-2003 North American academic year. She will be part of a group of 12 U.S. journalists and 13 international journalists who will make up the 65th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study in any part of the university. More than one thousand U.S. and international journalists have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.
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