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SAFE PROJECTS & PARTNERS |
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- Robert Hughes: CEO of T&C Investments, a Hanoi-based
group of companies
- Bernice Clark: Visiting scholar at Hanoi University of
Technology
- In 2001-2002, SAFE helped lobby the government of Zimbabwe
for the right to import less expensive, generic antiretroviral
medications into the country so that treatment could be made
available to more people. The government granted this right
in 2003.
- In June and July of 2002, SAFE funded a public awareness radio campaign
featuring a popular Zimbabwe entertainer, Oliver Mtukudzi. The radio spots were
designed to educate the public about ways to avoid becoming infected with
HIV/AIDS. ( The radio spots can be heard on SAFE home page )
- In 2003 - 2004, SAFE provided medicine for the first approved treatment protocol
of 20 AIDS mothers (and a few fathers) in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. These women had
already participated in a Mother-To-Child Transmission program which was
extremely successful – over 90% of the babies were born HIV negative. SAFE
partnered with the University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project),
Doctors Without Borders and Stanford University in providing the medicine to 20
of an initial group of 120 (later to grow to 300), so they will be able to live
and raise their newborn children. SAFE purchased shipments of
antiretroviral medicines from Cipla Ltd, a major generic pharmaceutical
manufacturer in India. Treatment in Chitungwiza began in June 2003 and the
recipients have responded very well to the medicine.
- In 2004, SAFE purchased and donated computer equipment to help
support a newly established Pediatric AIDS clinic in Harare,
Zimbabwe.
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In 2006, SAFE began lengthy negotiations with the Zimbabwe
Salvation Army and the government hospital in Karoi, Zimbabwe
(southeast of Victoria Falls) to provide anti-retroviral
medicines for residents of Karoi and residents of a
rural community called Nyamutora. A three-party cooperation
agreement was agreed upon in 2006 but medicine was not able
to be purchased and delivered until 2007.
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In 2007,
SAFE initiated a pilot micro-credit project, together with
the Zambuko Trust, for members of the Batanai AIDS support group in Chitungwiza. The Batanai
support group consisted of people who received AIDS medicines from SAFE
and other donors beginning in 2003. SAFE believes the HIV/AIDS
tragedy in Zimbabwe requires a more holistic approach to deal
with the multi-faceted problems caused by HIV/AIDS and micro
loans to families living with HIV/AIDS is part of the solution.
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