We are now making copies of the DVD version of the film. This is the front cover image - hope you like it!
Before making VHS copies in different languages, I would like to ask someone to help with translating the descriptive text on the back of the cover to French, Swahili and Kirundi.
It will soon […]
[ Samuel Niyitunga ]
HIV/AIDS is among social problems that affect negatively the lives of human beings of Tanzania as well as those of other countries all over the world. In the early days of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, AIDS was believed to be an urban problem. Today, AIDS threatens the lives […]
Have you ever thought of your behaviour? Or, are you aware of the reasons, which make you to be popular? Most people do not care about these questions, which are the base of their behaviours, and which may be appreciated or disqualified according to social interpretations.
Every individual lives and works in a group of […]
Nyabenda Onesphore commonly known to many people as NMOBAH, a resident of Sydney in Australia expresses his sorrow regrets to the death of the late Baranyikwa, who passed away on 23 April 2005. Baranyikwa was apparently young but mentally grown up enough.
MOBA remembers about his last times in Kanembwa Camp and the future of […]
Dismas Baranyikwa, a sixteen-year-old HIV positive died on April 23, 2004 after a long period of agony in Kanembwa Camp.
The late Baranyikwa was officially known as HIV/AIDS carrier in 2003 after a hot campaign conducted by “Stop-Sida Nkebure Uwumva” in Kanembwa Camp, an association initiated by Noe Sebisaba, the first person in Kanembwa Camp, and […]
UN news agency IRIN reports that Karago camp will be shut down.
“A camp for Burundian refugees in northwestern Tanzania is due to close in ‘a few weeks’, in efforts to consolidate these facilities as many occupants return home, according to an agreement between Burundi, Tanzania and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
The 5,500 refugees at […]
Baranyikwa Dismas
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Baranyikwa Dismas a 16 years old Burundian refugee living with HIV in Kanembwa refugee camp, situated in Tanzania
who takes part in moblizing people to come out. He wanted to teach more about AIDS to primay students from class 1 to 5. […]
agostino-shika-kamba
Originally uploaded by stopsida.
Agostino used to be a “kijana shupavu”– that is a strong, fierce, tough, hard young man. He says he used to make a living smuggling beer from Burundi to Tanzania. But Noe says he was an “mjambazi” — a gangster. In the […]
Background
HIV/AIDS programs have been narrowly focused on the health in the refugee camps. Formal responses seldom reach or provide appropriate support to the refugee community, and communities are seldom able to access formal support. It is vital to establish direct access, so that communities can participate fully in prevention, care and mitigation.
Project
STOP SIDA “NKEBURE […]
Ruhanga Apollinaire has written a series of pages with information about the Stop Sida organisation. These have been moved to the Stop Sida section.
You can comment on these pages here, or in the Stop Sida discussion forum.