Reports from the AIDS Support

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…

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…

We could not believe our own ears when Johan Viljoen, the project manager of the AIDS Secretariat of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, called us in September 2003 to say that the…

(This is a short story written with the intention of drawing attention to the disaster facing our area and representing the work of Blessed Gérard's Care Centre & Hospice).

This story is based on…