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PlusNews - HIV/AIDS radio
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PlusNews is IRIN's HIV/AIDS service, providing a one-stop platform for news and analysis on the pandemic. In partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, PlusNews has produced a series of radio reports looking at the impact of HIV and AIDS in southern Africa. The audio files are free to use, with only a credit sourcing the material to IRIN/PlusNews required.
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NAMIBIA: The challenge of stigma
 Emma Aina Nulimba is a Red Cross home-based care volunteer in Namibia. HIV-positive herself, she knows the difficulty of living with the virus in communities marked by poverty, and in which stigma remains powerful. She takes IRIN/PlusNews on her rounds to meet the people she tries to help in informal settlements on the outskirts of the capital, Windhoek. | Duration: 05:11 |
BOTSWANA: Helping hand for orphans
 A Red Cross programme in Botswana provides much-needed relief supplies to orphans and vulnerable children. | Duration: 05:59 |
NAMIBIA: Protecting newborns from HIV
 Namibia, like many countries in southern Africa, is struggling with high rates of HIV infection, but it has one of the region's most successful programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus. IRIN/PlusNews takes a look at the programme. | Duration: 04:45 |
LESOTHO: Giving children a chance to live
 In the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho an estimated 18,000 children are HIV-positive, but only 1,000 are accessing the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that can prolong their lives. The survival prospects for those not on treatment are bleak. IRIN/PlusNews looks at the challenges of scaling up the ARV rollout. | Duration: 05:25 |
BOTSWANA: 'I don't want to die alone' - the challenge of prevention
 Antiretroviral drugs can help prolong the lives of people who are HIV-positive: but they should go hand-in-hand with prevention measures to guard against infection in the first place. PlusNews looks at the challenges in Botswana, with one of the world's highest prevalence rates. | Duration: 06:39 |
SOUTH AFRICA: Looking forward to life
 Memory work has traditionally been associated with death - a way for HIV-positive people to say goodbye and leave a legacy for their children and family members. But this innovative form of psychosocial support is evolving, and also caters for HIV-positive people accessing life-prolonging treatment, as well as orphans and vulnerable children. | Duration: 05:47 |
ZIMBABWE: Children bear the brunt of AIDS crisis
 The death of a parent turns a child's life upside down, but when AIDS is the cause, the tragedy is magnified. Unlike other illnesses, there is a strong likelihood the second parent will also succumb to debilitating sickness and die. IRIN/PlusNews spoke to two children about the challenges they have faced. | Duration: 05:09 |
ZIMBABWE: Home-based care helps shore up crumbling health service
 Regional health programmes across southern Africa do not have the capacity to care for the millions affected by HIV and AIDS. Often it is members of the community that volunteer to help. IRIN/PlusNews spoke to caregivers in Zimbabwe about how they cope with the neverending workload. | Duration: 04:42 |
SOUTH AFRICA: Caring for the care-givers
 Every Friday, two dozen home-based care volunteers meet at the Red Cross office in Soweto, Johannesburg, and belt out harmonies that wakes up the quiet side street. For them singing in the choir is a way of de-stressing and rejuvenating after a hard week of tending to the sick and needy. | Duration: 05:40 |
SWAZILAND: Drought devastates community gardens
 Swaziland's drought has been the worst in living memory and has had a terrible impact on community gardens - an initiative aimed at improving the nutrition of orphans and HIV-postive villagers. | Duration: 03:42 |
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