HIV Survivors and Partners Network

22/10/2026

❤️ LIFE BEYOND HIV! | HSPN

Why listen to young people aged 10–14 who were born with HIV matter?

Behind every child is a story, a feeling, a question, and a dream. ❤️. Growing up with HIV can bring questions about identity, friendships, stigma, treatment, love and the future. But we cannot assume they are okay if we have never asked how they feel.

Through Life Beyond HIV!, we want to understand their lived experiences and connect them with older people living positively with HIV, so they can see hope, find strength and know that HIV does not define who they are or who they can become. 🌱

💌 Are you aged 10–14 and were born with HIV? Write us a letter - see more on the poster. Your letter can be anonymous, but contact details may help when we want to contact you to offer support 💝.

Send tour letter to 📧 [email protected]

There is a life beyond HIV, and we want to help you see it! ❤️

08/10/2026

I love this for the E.C 👏👏

The Eastern Cape Health MEC, Ntandokazi Capa, will be live on community radio stations to discuss the new CCMDD Medicine Pick-Up Point in Baziya, bringing chronic medication closer to eligible patients and reducing unnecessary travel and queues at health facilities.

Tune in as the MEC shares more on the initiative and the Department’s ongoing efforts to bring healthcare services closer to rural communities.

07/10/2026

That's why we won't rest until more children in Gauteng are tested, started and retained in care, and achieve an undetectable viral load 🥹

Tshwane Metro AIDS Council raises alarm regarding treatment adherence regression of HIV-positive children in Tshwane.

01/10/2026

I love this for the Eastern Cape Department of Health. This is where the advocacy and community engagement started, even the very first provincial launch back in 2022 started there. I'm glad the message is now integrated in the systems, programs and across all other community engagement.

Sustained 👏🎉❤️

30/09/2026

Are you, or do you know, someone openly living with or affected by syphilis or hepatitis B? 💜

We are calling people across South Africa to join a growing community-led nationwide movement of advocates working to advance the Triple Elimination (HIV, Syphilis and Hep B ) Agenda and strengthen the South African response.

Your lived experience, voice and leadership matter. Together, we can challenge stigma, advance human rights and gender equality, and ensure that communities are meaningfully at the centre of the response.

To express your interest, please send an email to [email protected]

29/09/2026

Going down the memory lane thinking of how and when advocacy started, and gained momentum in South Africa. It took just one email to the UNAIDS Unaids South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini country office to request their technical support including co-branding. As small as we are, they trusted us and allowed their treatment technical advisors to work with us from inception to the launch, with support from the country director 👏 .

Within a month, we had close to 5 more partners willing to collaborate with us including RHI and 🙏🙏 and we moved. Not even COVID 19 could stop the movement. A year later, the South African National Aids Council (SANAC) took over as an unstoppable national coordinating body, with (CDC South Africa) support, then the
Department of Health South Africa came on board. A movement that started so small. That was a true reflection of a bottom up advocacy!

Prevention Access Campaign
stood by us, even when we weren’t even sure of what we were doing 👏🙌🎉🙏. Supporting with technical and financial resources.

HSPN, UNAIDs representatives held the country flag at the launch with pride 🎉(after 2 years of intense lobbying, advocacy and campaigning); a national launch that was led by the National Minister of Health 🙌🙌, alongside the CEO of SANAC 🎊
Abdool Mandisa Tyadi- Dukashe- BCur, MPH, PHD(c) Nontando Mkhencele


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18/09/2026

Little did we know the work we started in 2019 would impact the whole country advancing the agenda 🙏. That was only a begging of our work in influencing public health policies and positioning the voices of communities in matters related to their health.

Yesterday, another milestone was reached 🎉🫶, room full of community based organizations (110 across Gauteng) discussing stragies to close the paediatric HIV cascade gaps and advancing the Triple Elimination Agenda.

We are standing in the gap, strengthing community and health services relationships in addressing pediatric HIV cascade gaps and vertical transmissions. We know better, we understand better because we have lived experiences, we understand the pain point, we understand local culture and language.

19/08/2026

Shout out to our newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Thapeloo Mashaba, Spha Mazibuko, Zipho Msweli, Thuli Mchunu, Makabongwe Mathenjwa, Kgomotso Matsieng, Linet Kaveza, Aretha Jelwana, Rhadebe Ndlebentle, Chisha Geoffrey 💗🎉🎊💞

13/08/2026

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Quality care for all children starts in our communities.

HSPN, in partnership with MERLA Academy, invites S.A.-based organizations working with children, mothers, families, and communities to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for the community capacity-building program.

The programme focuses on paediatric HIV, aligned with the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children, and the Triple Elimination agenda to enhance community-led case finding, treatment literacy, linkage to care, and strengthening community–facility linkages.

🎓 100% online training scholarship: The first 50 participants from shortlisted organizations will receive a fully funded place (and receive certificates of attendance)

📅 EOI closing date: 21 August 2026
🕒 First session: 11 September 2026 | 15:00–17:00

👉 Submit your organization’s EOI and nominate participants: https://lnkd.in/dHVT5Vpr

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY; the spaces are limited!

10/08/2026

❤️ Celebrating 20 Years of Marriage by Giving Back

HIV Survivors & Partners Network (HSPN) is delighted to celebrate the 20th Wedding Anniversary of Mr & Mrs Dukashe- a remarkable journey of love, partnership, resilience and commitment.

To mark this special milestone, the Dukashe couple have chosen to give back to society by offering their time, professional expertise and lived experience to support couples and communities affected by HIV.

Both qualified professional nurses with 20 years of experience managing HIV across the continuum of care, Mr & Mrs Dukashe will provide:

❤️ FREE pro bono counselling and disclosure support for couples in HIV mixed-status relationships
💻 Virtual sessions in the early evenings -30 minutes per session

⛪ FREE anti-HIV stigma dialogues for churches and faith communities
📍 In-person sessions on Sat/Sundays in the afternoons
📍 Gauteng and surroundings
📅 Available until 30 September 2026

📩 Enquiries & appointments:
[email protected]