Extra-Time

“It’s like saying they just want us to die, they want our children to suffer again and to be orphans.”

From where Esther Goba sat watching two football teams clad in “HIV POSITIVE” t-shirts competing in a football tournament in Limbe, Malawi, she wouldn’t strike you as someone who is at the frontlin

19 Jul 2010 / 3 minute read

Where Footbal and HIV/AIDS Treatment meet: Voices from pitches in Bulawayo

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is in its final stage and the excitement in Southern Africa is still palpable even in Zimbabwe where I work in a nurse for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders

12 Jul 2010 / 4 minute read

Zimbabwe’s ARV Swallows the early favourites in MSF’s HALFTIME! football tournament for HIV

The all-star Brazil football squad entered the 2010 FIFA World Cup as early favourites to make it to the finals and hope to lift the golden trophy.

29 Jun 2010 / 3 minute read

Mozambique’s Mambinhas ready to strike at HalfTime!

In Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, a field of 20 agile aspiring footballers from HIV programmes run by Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) did their best in recent weeks to impre

23 Jun 2010 / 2 minute read

Watching the World Cup Soccer thanks to a second chance at life in Swaziland

The Thwala family gathers around the small radio set to listen to the commentary of the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament match kicks off.

21 Jun 2010 / 3 minute read

From the bench, onto the field

In January this year I travelled to Cameroon to make a health promotion film that featured Sylvestre, a patient who motivate others to seek treatment.

15 Jun 2010 / 3 minute read

Cameroon

HIV/AIDS

Carolina Malavazzi Galvao

Doctor

The South African samba: Can you feel it?

11 Jun 2010 / 3 minute read

South Africa

HIV/AIDS