http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/21/zinhle-thabethe-we-are-not-the-same/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/21/zinhle-thabethe-we-are-not-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-1253263 El Oso » Archive » PopTech Innovation Fellows: From Conversation to Social Change Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:45:37 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1064#comment-1253263 [...] first project to be supported by the Accelerator is Project Masiluleke led by Zinhle Thabethe, which we will be hearing a lot more about over the next few [...] [...] first project to be supported by the Accelerator is Project Masiluleke led by Zinhle Thabethe, which we will be hearing a lot more about over the next few [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/21/zinhle-thabethe-we-are-not-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-583575 …My heart’s in Accra » Pop!Tech: Acceleration and managing AIDS Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:30:47 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1064#comment-583575 [...] first project the Accelerator will fund is Project Masiluleke, launched by Zinhle Thabethe, an HIV counselor in KwaZulu Natal province who spoke at last year’s Pop!Tech. Working with [...] [...] first project the Accelerator will fund is Project Masiluleke, launched by Zinhle Thabethe, an HIV counselor in KwaZulu Natal province who spoke at last year’s Pop!Tech. Working with [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/21/zinhle-thabethe-we-are-not-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-217044 …My heart’s in Accra » Twelve great talks to watch, and no excuses for being bored. (Or boring.) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:24:41 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1064#comment-217044 [...] Giving a much more personal story of the impact of HIV in an African context was Zinhle Thabethe’s speech at Pop!Tech in October 2006. She’s the director of the Sinikithemba Choir, a group of HIV-positive singers based in Durban who use music to educate communities about AIDS. Her story makes clear the agonizing choices individuals face when local health systems can’t provide anti-retroviral drugs for everyone in a nation - she’s surviving AIDS, but watches her brother die, unable to share her drugs and save him. [...] [...] Giving a much more personal story of the impact of HIV in an African context was Zinhle Thabethe’s speech at Pop!Tech in October 2006. She’s the director of the Sinikithemba Choir, a group of HIV-positive singers based in Durban who use music to educate communities about AIDS. Her story makes clear the agonizing choices individuals face when local health systems can’t provide anti-retroviral drugs for everyone in a nation – she’s surviving AIDS, but watches her brother die, unable to share her drugs and save him. [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/21/zinhle-thabethe-we-are-not-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-72617 …My heart’s in Accra » Pop!Tech 2006 - thank you Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:32:58 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1064#comment-72617 [...] - The message from Dr. Serena Koenig and Zinhle Thabethe that it’s not okay to accept deaths in the developing world that we wouldn’t accept in the developed world. If we can expect people to live for 40 years on antiretroviral drugs, we need to expect the same in Africa and Haiti. (It would be great to get a speaker like Jamie Love to address the legal and practical aspects of making ARVs universally accessible.) [...] [...] – The message from Dr. Serena Koenig and Zinhle Thabethe that it’s not okay to accept deaths in the developing world that we wouldn’t accept in the developed world. If we can expect people to live for 40 years on antiretroviral drugs, we need to expect the same in Africa and Haiti. (It would be great to get a speaker like Jamie Love to address the legal and practical aspects of making ARVs universally accessible.) [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/10/21/zinhle-thabethe-we-are-not-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-71884 quixote Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:51:34 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1064#comment-71884 Nothing I didn't know ... and yet completely heartbreaking. Nothing I didn’t know … and yet completely heartbreaking.

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