Theme: HIV/AIDS & TB

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Read Sonke’s Policy Recommendations to the National Department of Health on men, gender equality and HIV and AIDS. >> Download the discussion paper

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How do children perceive men? Especially in relation to HIV, violence and support for school going. >> Read “the role of men in our lives” report

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One Man Can workshop activities manual aimed at working with men and boys to reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. >> Download the manual

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After One Man Can training, a group of courageous and caring men started the Siyakhanyisa HIV/AIDS support group, taking on roles that have traditionally been reserved for women. >> read the case study

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Sport has emerged recently as a way to tackle a range of development-related issues such as peace building, post-disaster relief and health promotion. Sonke co-hosted a meeting in Cape Town in July to look at the use of sport to …

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Many men are socialised to believe that being a man means that they should be aggressive, never back down from conflict, have multiple sexual partners, drink lots of alcohol and call the shots in their relationships with women. In addition, …

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Sonke has written a literature review on gender, health and HIV and AIDS in South Africa. >> Read the literature review

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Gender has long been recognized as being key to understanding and addressing HIV and AIDS. Gender roles and relations that structure and legitimate women’s subordination and simultaneously foster models of masculinity that justify and reproduce men’s dominance over women exacerbate …

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The National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS and STIs 2007-2011 (the NSP) was adopted in May 2007. This report aims to collate the available evidence to assess the extent to which South Africa is meeting the targets of the NSP, in …

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This report identifies a number of focus areas in which notions of masculinity are key in South Africa, either because they are causally implicated in the twin epidemics of violence and HIV/AIDS, or because they contribute to gender inequality by …

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Launched on International Human Rights Day on the 10th of December 1998, the South African Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has demonstrated its ability to win major gains for people living with AIDS. Whether by challenging government to deliver on its …

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Bafana Khumalo, Sonke Co-Director, presented at the International AIDS Conference held from 2 to 8 August, 2008 in Mexico City. >> Men Engage

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Social constructions of manhood have strong effects on men’s and women’s health. They affect women directly, for example, via male violence against them causing physical and psychological harm, and indirectly through men’s risky behaviour increasing their female partners’ vulnerability to …

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Sports for development (S4D) initiatives have emerged in recent years, in an attempt to offer developing countries alternative strategies to tackle a variety of issues relating to development (individual, economic or social), peace building, post-disaster relief, gender equality, health promotion …

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Date: 22 July 2008 Venue: Mphathesitha High School, Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Time: 10am-2pm The PhotoVoice Project is a multi-phased school-based project in which 20 learners from Mphathesitha High School participated in workshops to learn to tell their personal stories using photography. …

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La campagne au nom de One Man Can (Un Homme Peut) promeut l’idée qui dit que chacun de nous a un rôle à jouer, que chacun d’entre nous peut créer un monde meilleur, plus équitable et plus juste. En même …

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