Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation with Thembi Ngubane
This short "video policy letter" was shot in 2006 as part of Barefoot Workshops series, screened to the US Department of State.
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation operates community sites in greater Cape Town's Nyanga and Masiphumelele districts.
Fusing a unique combination of academic expertise and social activism, the Foundation is involved in a number of initiatives including:
- the provision of antiretroviral therapy
- operating a free mobile HIV testing unit
- studies into adherence strategies, adherence monitoring, and HIV's interaction with tuberculosis
- the training and guidance of health care professionals
- preparing communities for HIV vaccine clinical trials
- providing adolescent HIV prevention and improving women’s health.
For more information about the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, click here.
Thembi Ngubane passed away on June 4th, 2009, at the age of 24. Thembi leaves behind a four year-old daughter named Onwabo.
Radio Diaries, in which Thembi participated in 2006, recording her daily life living with AIDS in South Africa, has set up a fund to continue taking care of Onwabo. If you would like to contribute to that fund, please click here.
