#WorldAidsDay: High levels of infection in young girls and women
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told EWN an increase in infections is the result of numerous factors.
HIV is still an emergency
Antiretroviral treatment may have lowered the death rate in people living with HIV, but the rate of new infections remains extremely high. And HIV is still an emergency.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: lhohonolofatso RYWC (QwaQwa, Free State)
Tlonolofatso RYWC marched from a place called “The Snake Park” in QwaQwa to Tharollo school where the 16 Days of Activism event with the focus “When I see something that is not Ok I will say - It not #OK” was held.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: Revolution RYWC (QwaQwa, Free State)
The campaign of 16 days of activism to no violence against women and children is to address and encourage society to acknowledge that violence against women and children and children is not government or criminal justice system problem, but a societal problem, and failure to view it as such results in all efforts falling to eradicate this scourge in our communities.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: Rosendal (Free State)
The Boikarabelo Rise Young Women’s Club from Rosendal were marching on Sunday, 29 November 2015 in the streets of Mautse, Rosendal in an attempt to send out a message to all Child Abusers living in the area that they will not keep quiet any more, but report all crimes against women and children.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: Cedarville (Eastern Cape)
Cedarville is a small town between the borders of KZN and Lesotho with a population of 4412. It is categorised mainly by farms. Some of the main challenges in this area includes high rate of HIV, teenage pregnancy and Alcohol abuse.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: Mthatha (Eastern Cape)
A total of 23 clubs from in and around Mthatha, Eastern Cape met on Saturday the 21 November 2015 in Ngangelizwe at the Rotary Hall to commemorate the 16 Days of No Violence campaign and World AIDS day. The event was to remind young Women that HIV is there and it exist.
The Thusanang Young Women’s Club in Glaudina, North West, is a club that consists of unemployed Young Women only. The club hosted a Work Readiness Workshop for community members that are currently unemployed on 26th November 2015
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign
The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children is an international awareness-raising campaign.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: Makouspan and Brooksby (North West)
The National Department of Women and Children celebrated the beginning of 16 Days of Activism for No violence Against Women and Children in Naauwpoort on Wednesday, 25 November 2015.
On 25th November 2015 Rea-Agana Young Women’s Club and The Ark Young Women’s Club joined forces with the Department of Social Development and South African Police Services for a march that started at the Huhudi Community Hall in Vryburg to the Taxi Rank in town, via the streets in the community.
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign: Welkom (Free State)
Four Rise Clubs members from Thabong in Welkom (Dream Girls, Future legends, Matebele & Go Getters) took the initiative to organise a Aids Day/16 Days Awareness Campaign in Constantia Road - one of the main streets in Thabong on Thursday, 26 November 2015.
