Leander’s programme so far
The story goes on. There have been discussions going from midnight until now, below is summary of programmes that has been broadcast:
Midnight to 0500hrs
Music and important HIV and AIDS messages
0500 to 0600hrs
Reflections/Ndangariro/Siyakhumbula
There was a compilation of music in memory of those who have died as a result of AIDS. Leander was taking calls from those who lost their relatives to AIDS related illnesses, the he also gave a brief backgound of HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe over the years dating back to 1984 when the first case was reported, bringing out how HIV was considered a death sentence, unavailabilty of ARVs, stigmatisation and discrimination
The Power Breakfast Show - 0600 to 0900hrs
The story continue with sharing of info relating to the key drivers of Zimbabwe’s epidemic issues like multiple concurrent partnerships(like small houese, intergenerational sex etc)
0900 to 1000hrs
The hour focused on “Zimbabwe Decline” highlighting some of the success stories resulting in the decline in HIV prevalence. There were also highlights on behavioural change, delayed sexual debut by young girls, uptake in VCT etc.
1000 to 1100hrs
Focus was on men and their responsibility in the face of HIV and AIDS. Professor Ezra Chitando helped explore this area.
1100 to 1200 hrs
The session highlighted the role of women in society as well as human rights for women versus tradition and culture. Also explored important role played by women in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
1200 to 1300hrs
The Voiceless Heard:
During the session there were testimonies given by listeners who are living with HIV and AIDS. Listeners were also phoning in.
1300 to 1400 hrs
There were pre-recorded messages and live messages from Zimbabwe’s best known personalities on the World Aids Day
1400 to 1500hrs
There was a discussion on HIV and AIDS in relation to migration…IOM (International Organisation for Migration) representatives talked so much about initiatives they are working on to help Zimbabweans.
1500 to 1600hrs
The Harare Junior council representatives are currently in the studio discussing HIV/AIDS and the youth.
One Cause for One Nation- with Leander Kandiero on PowerFM
One Man.One Day. One Station. One Cause for One Nation- with Leander Kandiero on PowerFM
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Log on for all the interviews and emails from Leander Kandiero’s One Man 24-Hour Marathon Broadcast…
For the first time ever in Zimbabwe, and indeed in world history, a 24-hour marathon broadcast on HIV and AIDS!
The brainchild of POWER FM, a musical station wholly owned by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings, the 24-Hour marathon broadcast to be aired on Power FM presents Zimbabweans with an opportunity to reflect, talk about, question as well as map the way forward regarding the country’s responses to HIV and AIDS.
Student life
The sun sets so beautifully into the horizon. The ordinary person marvels at the wonder of the glory of God, yet to the student who is at a university that is about to close its doors, who slept on an empty stomach yesterday, the setting of the sun does not signify anything. All he askes is a simple innocent question, ‘Is God mverled at my pain?’
This year I am certainly praising God for making me able to pay US$2500 for my college tuition which with current situation that our country is in is a fortune. As I praise God I know there is someone who is cursing the blessing of the burning syndrome that made his poor parents afford to send him to one of Zimbabwe’s most expensive universities. Why shouldn’t he, when his school fees drained everything from their coofers that all they could manage to give their son for school was a little forex which today seems to be also affected by the sporadic runaway inflation that has brougth our country down? Read more
Zimbabwe: Global Fund accusations a blow to AIDS response
Reports that the Zimbabwe an government allegedly swindled Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) money is a severe blow to the country’s tottering response to the three killer diseases. If the matter is not urgently resolved, there is no doubt that it will influence massive donor flight from the country, and imperil the community response to AIDS, TB and malaria.
Already, Zimbabwe’s chances to be considered for a US 188 million dollar grant have been put into jeopardy. According to New York Times, the government of Zimbabwe allegedly spent US 7,3 million dollars donated by the Global Fund on other things and has failed to honour requests to return the money.
“The actions by Zimbabwe have deprived the organization … of resources it needs and damaged efforts to expand life-saving treatment,” the New York Times quoted John Parsons, the Global Fund’s inspector-general. “Zimbabwe’s actions also jeopardize a more ambitious $188 Global Fund grant to Zimbabwe”.
With an ever-spiraling hyperinflation current estimated at 231 million percent, Zimbabwe’s social and economic indicators are horrendous to say the least.
The public health system has all but crumbled with major public hospitals having to be closed due to lack of resources. A widely condemned election in June in which President Robert Mugabe ran alone and emerged as a victor further worsened Zimbabwe’s image as an international pariah. Read more
Diary of an HIV-positive man
This article by Beatrice Tonhodzayi appeared in the Herald on 11 October 2008 and on Kubatana.net. I was moved when I read it.
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He has been living with HIV for the past five years. He took the test after his wife of 20 years had tested positive. Tamuka (not real name) says that day will forever be imprinted on his mind because it was the last time he was to ever have a conversation that lasted more than an hour with the woman he is married to. “She has hated me since then. She lives in the same house with me only because there is nowhere else she can go to. We don’t laugh together, and we rarely talk to each other. We talk “AT” each other only when it is absolutely necessary - mostly about money or the children, he said.” Read more
Mother of many
Yes, our tears stem
From your success
& your smiles
Are inspired
By our sickness,
But your nest
Must not be nourished
By the warm blood
Of my womb
& your breasts
Should not be fattened
By the flesh of sinless infants. Read more
