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Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by ANNABEL JACOBY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - As recently as last year, professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of South Africa’s foremost HIV researchers, were two of the health department’s greatest enemies. Former…

BLOEMFONTEIN, 25 February 2009 (PlusNews) - Last week, regulars at the HIV treatment clinic at Pelonomi hospital, in Bloemfontein, capital of South Africa's Free State Province, would have told you that the clinic has never been this quiet. Ever since the provincial government stopped initiating…

by DR MUIRIS HOUSTON A MAJOR survey of 10-17 year olds in the Republic has found evidence of health inequalities among school children. The Inequalities in Health among School-Aged Children in Ireland report, published this morning, has been prepared from data gathered for the 2006…

By Bill Gates Chair, Board Member, Gates Foundation   This article was originally published on Gates Notes.When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of…

The term “Giving While Living” is globally associated with Chuck Feeney, the Founding Chair of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a major international philanthropic foundation. He is the “anonymous donor”, a man who lives to give away billions.   [caption id="attachment_79484" align="alignnone" width="849"] Photo: Charles Feeney –…

Nokhwezi Hoboyi. Photo: Samantha Reinders, TAC After losing two children to AIDS, Nokhwezi Hoboyi stopped her treatment and landed in a South African hospice with tuberculosis. "A nurse told me there was life after testing positive for HIV," Ms. Hoboyi said. Most importantly, she met…

By Oliver Lee You don't need to be Angelina Jolie or Bono to be a great humanitarian. Nothing against celebri-tarians, of course. It can't be easy galavanting across the globe, giving speeches for good causes, paparazzi pouncing every time you hug a malnourished Sudanese child.…

The below Royal Gazette article features some of the findings of a new report, "Out of School and 'On the Wall': A qualitative look into the lives of unemployed young Black Bermudian men and the gender gap in educational attainment," by Drs. Monique Jethwani-Keyser and…

Greater access to services and protection of socio-economic rights are at the heart of a successful Atlantic-funded programme in South Africa. And individual women are leading the effort to provide a vital social-security safety net in poor rural communities. Based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, participated on a panel of The Settlement Summit: Inclusion, Innovation, Impact. He shared his thoughts and six suggestions on the responsibility of American foundations when working abroad, which are also applicable to grantmaking in other places…