Highlands Hope representatives complete a week of meetings with partners in Montreal and meet the Tanzanian High Commissioner to Canada.

“We were very proud as Tanzanians to be able to speak about our work,�? says Jackson Mbogela, director of the PIUMA Care and Treatment Centre. “Our country has been a leader in Africa in making AIDS a priority and developing a country-wide plan through the National AIDS Control Program (NACP).”

Three members of the Highlands Hope professional team are among 24,000 researchers, clinicians and activists gathering in Toronto for the biggest conference on HIV-AIDS in the world.

The death of S., a young woman and mother who was under treatment as a patient at PIUMA’s HIV clinic in Bulongwa before the lockout of staff and PIUMA volunteers by hospital authorities last April, has created sadness and anger among people in the area.

More than a thousand signatures on local petition demanding respect for local decision-making by people living with HIV-AIDS