Results List
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The First Large Scale African It Gets Better Project Launched in Cape Town
Source: It Gets Better – Cape Town
Messages of Hope and Solidarity for Gay South Africans Watch the videos of several Atlantic grantees who participated in the project. Equal Education, It Gets Better Gender DynamiX, It Gets Better The Inner Circle, It Gets BetterOctober 11, Cape Town - A small group…
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Lancet: Leadership needed to fight SA violence
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…
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SA's TB policy wastes money, fails patients
by Lesley Odendal and Victor Lakay The AIDS epidemic hit South Africa harder than most places, and the same can be said for drug-resistant TB (DRTB). As we mark World TB Day tomorrow, the latest 2007 data is that more than 7,300 people have multidrug-resistant…
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Rules favour informalisation, corruption
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
by CHRISTINA TAYLOR SOUTH AFRICA can gain from offering more resources and legitimacy to immigrants, academics suggest, but the country's citizens meanwhile suffer from restrictions on the rights of foreign nationals. According to a draft submission by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University to the…
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Barbara Hogan paves a new path in SA
Source: SAPA
Original Source On World Aids Day, the British Government announced a donation of £15m (R231m) for the South African government's anti-HIV programme, in a vote of confidence for South Africa’s Minister of Health Barbara Hogan. In an interview with the BBC, Ivan Lewis, the UK’s…
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Refugees Denied Access to Health Care
Source: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
Original Source By Kristin Palitza Durban Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment…
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Here’s Why Funders Should Support Advocacy
Source: Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge
[caption id="attachment_75843" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Photo: Treatment Action Campaign[/caption] Advocacy is a central mechanism for driving social change. As Mark Heywood, Executive Director of Section 27 says: “Advocacy is not a handful of individuals shouting from the rooftops. It is about effective community education, community mobilisation…
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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CoRMSA Report Outlines Way Forward Following Xenophobic Attacks
Source: CoRMSA
The recent violence against non-South Africans across the country is not a new phenomenon nor is it likely to end with deaths that shocked South Africa in May. The violence is but the most recent episode in a long history of the exclusion and marginalisation…
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Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Announces 20 Impact-Driven Leaders as its 2019 Atlantic Fellows
Source: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity
Photo: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Selected from across the United States and South Africa, the new Fellows will join an enduring transnational network of leaders working across issues, approaches and geographies to challenge anti-Black racism and build the policies, institutions and narratives needed…
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