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SAAAF
During the SADC Artist Aids Festival in Harare in November/December 2007 SAAAF was founded by presents artists to work for improving the rights of artists living with HIV/AIDS.
Tambo Tambulani Tambo was elected as vice for international relations with special focus on francophone and lusophone speaking artists.
Below are statement from the SAAAF:
Artists concern for HIV and Aids. International declaration. The Herald (Harare), 9 January 2008. 1. We artists from Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe meeting in Harare (Rainbow Towers) from November 27 to 29 2007 during Sadc Artists Workshop on HIV and Aids as part of the Sadc Artists Aids Festival:
2. Having undertaken a comprehensive introspection of ourselves as artists on how HIV and Aids have impacted on individual artists and arts organisations and how we have responded to the pandemic;
3. Having noted that we, as artists are equally infected and affected by the pandemic but have not taken the challenge decisively respond to the pandemic owing to our ego arising from the celebrity status and our desire to follow the culture left by the fellow artists who have gone;
4. Having noted that we are still in the denial phase and afraid of stigmatisation and are victims of the prevailing community silence on the disease;
5. Having noted that we have mainly been instrumental in HIV and Aids campaigns and have not been target for such campaigns, information and support service;
6. Being now aware of the need for all artists to be actively involved in disseminating information on HIV and Aids prevention, voluntary counselling and testing, treatment, mitigation and care;
7. Having noted with sadness that many artists have died in silence and isolation with no support from fellow artists, arts organisations and HIV and Aids organisations;
8. Being aware of the devastating impacts of the HIV and Aids pandemic on artists, artists communities where individuals, the whole group has succumbed/died of the pandemic leaving their dependants with no support and the fact that artists have still not changed their mindsets;
9. Having noted that many HIV and Aids organisations and institutions have not been able to cater for the special needs for artists whose life and industry directly revolve around HIV and Aids issues; aspirations, our realisation on the impact of HIV and Aids pandemic and our response to it are common to all artists in the Sadc region, we declare the formation of the SAAAF.
10. Having appreciated that our experiences, our concerns, our challenges, our hopes and aspirations, our realisation on the impact of HIV and Aids pandemic and our response to it are common to all artists in the Sadc region, we declare the formation of the SAAAF. ___________________________________________
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