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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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AIDS Out of Africa - Africa

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AIDS Out of Africa is a biannual electronic newsletter that seeks to provide a forum through which the people of Africa and their friends around the globe can express their experiences with HIV/AIDS through poetry. The newsletter aims to encourage those living with HIV/AIDS to tell their stories. The first edition of AIDS Out of Africa was published in June 2004.
Communication Strategies
This bi-annual newsletter features poetry from Africans and their friends infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Organisers' aim to use poetry to "expose that is hidden; shine light where there is darkness; soothe the hurting; encourage that which is courageous; shame that which hurts; and love that seem unlovable; and embrace our brothers and sisters in a steel determination to get rid of Aids."

AIDS Out of Africa will establish annual awards for those who in the previous year have been exemplary in articulating the African experience of HIV/AIDS through poetry. Each year 10 poems will be nominated; 3 award recipients will be chosen. The first prize will be US$100; the second prize will US$75; the third prize will be US$50. Winners will be announced on World AIDS Day in December.

The newsletter is distinguished by the following symbols:
  • Mount Kilimanjaro: representing the enormity and toll of HIV/AIDS in Africa
  • The thorn tree: representing the African determination to survive
  • Sunrise: representing a new day, a new beginning.
Development Issues
HIV/AIDS.
Key Points
Organisers seek a publisher willing to publish a selection of poems from its collection. They hope that a publishing company (preferably from Africa) will recognise the value of recording poetic voices that testify to the daily struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Those who wish to submit entries for the inaugural edition of AIDS Out of Africa should do so prior to November 15 2004. A website will be established to facilitate access to the newsletter in Africa and around the world. Those who wish to receive the Aids out of Africa newsletter should send an e-mail to AIDSoutofAFRICA@aol.com.
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AF-AIDS website.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/30/1999 - 00:00 Permalink

I am a little biased. I am the editor and publisher of AIDS out of AFRICA newsletter.
Thank you for a very apt description of what we do.
Keep up the graet work you do.

mwaganyu wa Kaggia