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Across the UK, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe, the Act4Africa family is working to stop the relentless spread of HIV/AIDs in its tracks - by fundraising, doing fantastic sponsored events, joining our teams on the ground through our expeditions, doing a medical elective, attending a charity gig or helping out in another way.

Whatever you do, whoever you are, EVERYONE can be part of the solution to this mammoth problem. If you want to find out more, you can read the Act4Africa story here, or you can check out all the articles in our Factfile here!

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Friday, 27 Jan 12.. of course Not ALL Teachers are Girls!!

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Chapter 4 of The Girl Effect by Chris Grieves

We love the Girl Effect but we would also love to see the 'Bloke Effect' in Africa too! In 2011 we saw an amazing Teachers trip lead by Andrew Rochford (one of our UK Leadership Team) but as Andy himself said of the self-starting teachers "I pretty much left them to it!". Andy stepped in at the very last minute when Kathy Smedley (herself a retired teacher) and founder of Act4Africa, became...

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Thursday, 26 Jan 12VCT Testing Success in Africa

People Registering for HIV Test

Chapter 8 of Teams in Africa by Peter Masereka / Chris Grieves

The Teams out in the field (Africa-side) are the focus of the fund-raising and support generated by the UK based offices, as this is where Act4Africa really makes a difference; in villages and communities, with families, leaders, women and children and many, many other places where our preventative message about HIV and AIDS can be heard. Here is a 'hot-off-the press' report directly from one...

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Sunday, 01 Jan 12What We Have Achieved is Remarkable

Popcorn.. "sweet or salty"?

Chapter 2 of Presentation Archive by Chris Grieves

Act4Africa's history over the past 10 years has been colourful and exciting. Sometimes there is no better way than to capture the essence of that vibrant life-force than to take the images and photographs of the people and places and put their story to music. Over the years, we have done this many times and have collated some of these 'chapters' in the life of Act4Africa here for you to...

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Will you teach us? Short term placements in Uganda for qualified teachers.