JOB OPPORTUNITY: Clinical Nurse Mentor in uMzinyathi District (based in Durban) 12 month contract
Industry: Healthcare & Medical Position: Clinical Nurse in uMzinyathi District (based in Durban) Contract: 12 Months Experience Level: Experienced Professional Experience Required: 5 Years Closing Date: 29th September 2023 CHIVA is looking to employ a Clinical Nurse Mentor who will deliver teaching and mentoring to nurse clinicians delivering HIV services and HCWs providing psychosocial […]
CHIVA Africa is Transforming Lives
CHIVA Africa is Transforming Lives CHIVA Africa’s success for almost 20 years has focused on being sensitive to the needs of children and adolescents who are receiving and delivering HIV treatment. At CHIVA Africa, we have always seen challenges as opportunities, and will expand our current role of mentoring healthcare workers to deliver HIV treatment […]
An exciting year for CHIVA Africa
2023 has begun and time is already flying! CHIVA has so many exciting projects in the works and we can’t wait to get them off the ground. Our mission to transform the lives of ALL children living with and exposed to HIV, so they may lead happy, healthy, and positive lives, is something that we […]
A gift of life for Sifiso
CHIVA is committed to transforming the precious, vulnerable lives of children and adolescents living with and exposed to HIV. One of these is little Sifiso and this is how we helped empower the healthcare workers as they cared for Sifiso on his journey from being neglected and dying, to thriving and attending school for the […]
Equalize HIV treatment
This year, World Aids Day is all about looking at the barriers holding us back in the fight to end HIV. CHIVA Africa is working towards breaking down those barriers through our programmes that empower healthcare workers delivering HIV services and communities and caregivers to support children and adolescents exposed to or living with HIV. […]
Strawberry-flavoured HIV Medication for Kid’s Tastebuds
An exciting development is the introduction of ‘delicious’ strawberry-flavoured paediatric antiretrovirals (ARVs) for children that will address a key barrier to the effective treatment of HIV-positive children. Many caregivers, healthcare workers, and everyone involved in HIV will know that the current HIV medication tastes awful! This has created so many challenges when children refuse to […]
Fiona joined the Board at CHIVA Africa in 2019. Fiona studied Law at Oxford University and started her career as a Barrister practicing in Chancery chambers before moving into financial services.
Shaun became a trustee for CHIVA Africa in February 2019. He is a South African qualified lawyer and holds the position of Chief Legal Officer at Cairn Capital, a leading European asset manager.
Dr Mo Archary is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist at King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban and the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine.
Lauren joined the board in 2019, and is a lawyer by training and built a successful legal career in South Africa, specialising in public interest and media law. Lauren has lectured in media law, ethics and public interest law and takes a special interest in furthering the cause of women and those disadvantaged in South Africa.
Dr Moshal is the founder of CHIVA Africa and CHIVA South Africa and has chaired the CHIVA Africa Board of Trustees since its registration as a charity in 2009. Born and raised in South Africa, Karyn graduated in medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1988.