Annotated Bibliography: Voluntary Counselling and Testing

position response can be seen in the fact that Mole has given talks to areas including Kimball,
Emendable, Escort, Poleax, Awardable and Blacksmith. She also helped form a support group
for people living with the Aids called Syphilis HIV/Aids outreach Programme. "I think God has
allowed me to live for so long so that I can help other fight against HIV/Aids", she said. Mole said
communities need to know that people living with HIV/Aids are people like everybody else, who
need to be cared for and loved.
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(1998). A place where miracles can still happen. Eastern Provincial Herald.
Abstract: Rev. Underwood talks about the seriousness of AIDS disease. " We are going the road
of Uganda and Zaire. Do we want to be totally devastated or are we going to acknowledge that
we have a problem?" Said Rev. Underwood. The Haven, in which opened four years ago, is one
of the many struggling organisations at the forefront of a desperate battle in which the cards are
stacked heavily against them. We must face the fact that we are living in the era of HIV/AIDS.
We' ve got to build structures. Companies are going to have to work it into their policies because
their workforces and management are going to be weakened and dying. We' ve got to deal with
how we can prolong life expectancy.
In the Haven, nurses find it very hard. They're dealing with people who are hurting. It's not easy.
"The principles which make the programme at the Haven the success it is, are misleading simple
in theory, yet incredibility complex in practice - the right diet hygiene, and psychologogical and
spiritual support. Patients are trained in a unique regimen of "wellness management", a
programme which has now also been adopted by countries and organisations in South America.
Most patients are incredibly ill, some on the brink of death when they arrive at the Haven.
Astonishingly many have left to resume their lives. In the past two months, eight people have
died and 20 have returned home. But those who have left, now have the skills to keep
themselves relatively healthy and prevent, to some degree, the opportunistic infections taking
advantage of their weakened immune systems. The Rev Underwood maintains that even in the
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