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Southern Africa
Overview
HIV is now widely recognised as one of the key threats to well being and development in southern Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, over 25 million people are HIV positive. Among workers in many sectors of the economy in southern Africa, a quarter or more have HIV. South Africa alone has almost 5 million people with HIV and the South African trade union federation, COSATU, has over 300,000 members with HIV. Every day the need for education, care and support programs becomes more urgent, as does the international campaign for access to treatments.
Strategy
Union Aid Abroad first became involved in southern African programs in the mid 1980s, primarily supporting the struggle against Apartheid through assistance to ANC-aligned organisations in exile in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania. After the unbanning of the liberation organisations in 1990, Union Aid Abroad established an office in Johannesburg and supported projects in Southern Africa which were designed (and nominated by the ANC) to provide strategic support in the repatriation of the exiles and the overall democratisation process.
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History
Recent Years 2000-2005: Projects on HIV
- Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
- COSATU
- South African Rural Women
- APHEDA & the struggle against Apartheid
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20 Years of Working for Freedom
The story of how, through Union Aid Abroad—APHEDA, Australian trade unionists have made a strategic contribution to the achievement of non-racist non-sexist democracy and development in South Africa and to fighting poverty and HIV across southern Africa....
HIV/AIDS Education & Support 2003-2004
Report to donors on HIV program activities in South Africa....
Projects
2008-2009 Missionvale: Report to Donors
Union Aid Abroad- APHEDA is pleased to have been able to assist with the community initiative to raise funds in Australia for Missionvale, since late 2006. Between then and now we have transferred over $45,000 to Missionvale Care Centre, to be used for costs of training and other developmental projects....
2008-2009 Zimbabwe: Report to Donors
In the past financial year, your generous donations have assisted in providing emergency food assistance in Zimbabwe and in maintaining the operations of the Zimbabwean unions....
AMP supports youth development in Cape Town
Delegates to the 2008 AMP Offshore Convention in Cape Town will be able to learn about the unique cultural diversity and development challenges of South African communities. In collaboration with AMP, Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA will enable delegates to contribute to a program that is improving the lives of young people in the Heideveld community, near the Cape Town airport....
Community development with HIV orphans and vulnerable children
HIV in southern Africa
In the early 1990s, rates of HIV infection in South Africa were very low, but now SA has joined its neighbouring countries in facing a terrible epidemic. SA now has over 5 million people living with HIV. In some provinces almost a third of women giving birth have HIV. In Zimbabwe, the trade unions estimate 5,000 die each week from AIDS. The epidemic of HIV interacts with other illnesses, such as TB, to pose especially acute challenges. The epidemic is not only a human disaster of unparallelled suffering; HIV threatens the economy and society, weakens the workforce and food production, interrupts leadership and the usual generational cycles. The epidemic has required responses in terms of discrimination, policy, education, support, care treatments and orphan care....
Urgent Human Rights Issues
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has ongoing campaigns relating to:- Zimbabwe Human Rights
- HIV Treatments Access
- Western Sahara
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Latest Southern Africa News
Aboriginal Medical Service Calls for Action on Zimbabwe - 11 April 2008
Mr Sol Bellear, Chairperson of Australia’s first Aboriginal Medical Service, called for urgent international action to bring peace and democracy to Zimbabwe. Echoing the sentiments of Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mr Bellear said that there had been a clear failure of behind the scenes efforts to convince Mugabe to relinquish power....
Urgent Action Alert – International Community needs to support Zimbabwe - 10 April 2008
In the national election in Zimbabwe on March 29 – almost two weeks ago – against all odds the majority voted for the MDC Opposition and against the incumbent regime of Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF....
Arrest of Zimbabwean Trade Union President - 09 April 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has been outraged at the news that Masimba Kadzimu, the President of the Zimbabwe Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), was taken into custody on Monday 7th April 2008 and is being held at by police at Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West Province....
Southern African unions speak out for democracy in Zimbabwe - 09 April 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) held a meeting this morning, Tuesday 8 April 2008, to receive a report from the ZCTU on the current political crisis in Zimbabwe....
Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA Welcomes Democratic Change in Zimbabwe - 04 April 2008
Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA, the overseas aid arm of the ACTU, today congratulated the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, for their win in the Zimbabwe elections held last weekend....
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