We have found the solution to HIV/Aids: YOU
HIV/Aids is without doubt the most serious issue facing South Africa today: one which threatens to inflict immense damage on our country. Among many students, however, there is a sense of apathy and numbness towards the problem, together with a belief in their own immortality: the idea that HIV is a disease that happens only to other people – only to poor people, only to black people or only to gay people. The reality is that every single one of us is vulnerable to infection from HIV, regardless of race or sexual orientation. The rising infection rates among students where 1 in 4 students are HIV positive, means that now, more than ever, is the time for students to make responsible and informed sexual choices and to do whatever we can to help stop the spread of HIV and Aids.
Who we are…
SHARC (Student HIV/Aids Resistance Campaign) is a Rhodes University society that is working to stop the spread of HIV and to help those already infected and to destigmatise the disease. The philosophy of SHARC is not to fall into despair or a sense of hopelessness about HIV/Aids, but rather to take a positive, dynamic approach towards understanding how the disease will impact on our environment and to focus on what we, and you, can do together to fight it.
SHARC runs HIV awareness campaigns on the Rhodes campus throughout the year, making use of the various types of campus media: we broadcast advertisements and short features on Rhodes Music Radio, for instance, and create printed inserts to accompany the campus newspaper, Activate. We have developed a workshop programme which we have successfully implemented and run in Grahamstown schools and residences over the past few years, and we train students to be able to run their own workshops, focussing on HIV and STD education but including discussion of more general issues relating to sexuality and gender. We work closely with the wider Grahamstown community, too, with particularly close links to the Raphael Centre, a facility that caters for HIV-positive Grahamstown residents.
To find out more about what SHARC is up to and how you can help, come to our meetings in the Union building (1st floor) every Tuesday at 13:30 or alternately email us on sharc@webmail.co.za
Who we are…
SHARC (Student HIV/Aids Resistance Campaign) is a Rhodes University society that is working to stop the spread of HIV and to help those already infected and to destigmatise the disease. The philosophy of SHARC is not to fall into despair or a sense of hopelessness about HIV/Aids, but rather to take a positive, dynamic approach towards understanding how the disease will impact on our environment and to focus on what we, and you, can do together to fight it.
SHARC runs HIV awareness campaigns on the Rhodes campus throughout the year, making use of the various types of campus media: we broadcast advertisements and short features on Rhodes Music Radio, for instance, and create printed inserts to accompany the campus newspaper, Activate. We have developed a workshop programme which we have successfully implemented and run in Grahamstown schools and residences over the past few years, and we train students to be able to run their own workshops, focussing on HIV and STD education but including discussion of more general issues relating to sexuality and gender. We work closely with the wider Grahamstown community, too, with particularly close links to the Raphael Centre, a facility that caters for HIV-positive Grahamstown residents.
To find out more about what SHARC is up to and how you can help, come to our meetings in the Union building (1st floor) every Tuesday at 13:30 or alternately email us on sharc@webmail.co.za
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