Articles
| Title: Brief History of the Organisation |
Type: Articles |
| Author: George Snyman |
Synopsis: In 1997 ASM has decided to work more directly within the community in which it is situated, and has established the Masoyi Home Based Care (HBC) Project, and appointed a full time Co-ordinator for the project. The formal establishment of this project flows out of an already existing work in the Masoyi area, as ten students from ASM together with the six health educators from the three local government clinics in the area, have been visiting terminally and chronically ill patients, including those with HIV/AIDS, on a weekly basis throughout 1997. Prior to these visits, an eight week training course was run for the students and health educators by Doctor Hardman, who is also resident on ASM, but works as a community doctor in a private clinic. |
| Title: Overview of 2001 |
Type: Articles |
| Author: George Snyman |
Synopsis: Masoyi Home Based Care is a Christian project caring for dying people in their homes… |
| Title: Penny Thompson Article |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Penny Tompson |
Synopsis: As HIV/Aids continues its dramatic rise in the developing world does 'Aids fatigue' lurk menacingly on the edges of each new story or list of statistics, causing us to skip over the text, read only half the message, whilst thinking what can we do anyway? |
| Title: INTRODUCTORY BACKGROUND |
Type: Articles |
| Author: George Snyman |
Synopsis: The Mail and Guardian (4 May, 2001) reported that about 42 million people (close to the total of South African population) in the whole world are HIV positive… |
| Title: Article on Masoyi and Hands @ Work |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Penny Tompson |
Synopsis: The number of people known to be living with HIV/AIDS today is in the region of 42million. Whilst there is only one strain of the HIV virus… |