African AIDS foundation was established in response to the AIDS pandemic in Africa. In Australia and other developing countries, depression is a major source of people attending medical practitioners. This video is a light hearted look at the problems faced by us in the developed world and is shared with you to put into perspective the problems we have compared to those in the developing world.

While we in the developed world consider ourselves to be struggling consider the above stats. In Australia most people including those dependant on assiatnce from government and social servie agencies are in the top 10% of the world's richest people by income. If you live in Sydney and own a house you are likely close to the top 1% of the wealthiest people on the planet (that is 70,000,000 people who comprise 1% of the world population).

Gardens provide impetus to set up a business

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/139aab48c8353a89
African AIDS Foundations latest newsletter has an incredible sory about a man who opened a shop after setting up a garden with support from African AIDS Foundation

SBS Radio UWS Medical Student interview

On 20 April 2012 SBS Radio Australia interviewed a student, one of four UWS Medical Students who spent five weeks at Emmaus Hospital as part of their medical studies
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/african/highlight/page/id/212291/t/African-Aids-Foundation

SBS Radio interview

UWS Medical Students in South Africa

In December 2011 four Medical Students from UWS spent five weeks at Emmaus Hospital in South Africa. Read their stories by clicking the link below
http://www.africanaidsfoundation.org.au/emmausuws

Unamed student, Dr John Schwarz, Julia New-Tolley and Kat Irwin on return sharing their stories with AAF

HIV Expert new World Bank Chief

New world Bank Head is an expert in HIV/AIDS and a development expert to boot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/jim-yong-kim-world-bank_n_1374923.html?ref=fb&utm_campaign=032312&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily+Brief&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=2939720,b=facebook

Following are five facts about Kim:

- Kim has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard. He received a coveted MacArthur grant in 2003.

- Kim was born in 1959 in South Korea, moved with his family to the United States at age 5 and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father, a dentist, taught at the University of Iowa.

- He was quarterback of the Muscatine High School football team, and was also class president and valedictorian, ranking tops academically in the graduating class.

- Kim was director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization. He developed a key treatment for a form of drug-resistant tuberculosis while working in Peru in the mid-1990s.

He was executive director of Partners in Health (PIH), which serves impoverished communities in Haiti, Peru, and elsewhere. He co-founded the organization Partners in Health with Paul Farmer, who was a classmate at Harvard Medical School. The work of PIH received wide publicity through the book "Mountains Beyond Mountains." 

Dr John Schwarz visits African AIDS Projects on Annual Field Trip

Dr John Schwarz and wife Rosalie are travelling in Africa at present visiting African AIDS Foundation projects.
Follow their trip on twitter - twitter@DrJSchwarz