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August 16, 2008 Proposed Human Trafficking Bill Welcomed Doctors For Life International would like to congratulate the Sexual Offences Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority for the Draft Bill submitted to Parliament recently regarding Human Trafficking. The new legislation will enable the effective prosecution of all forms of human trafficking. The proposed Bill echoes evidence that was submitted by Doctors For Life as early as 2000 and although a bit overdue, it is nevertheless most welcome....[more]
January 30, 2008 Condemnation of proposed Red Light District Doctors For Life International condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the eThekwini Municipality’s suggestion to legalize prostitution in certain areas of Durban, apparently for the 2010 Soccer World Cup....[more]
Click here to see some photos showing the progress on the construction of the clinic up untill 9 July 2008. ...[more]
May 12, 2008 Zavora Clinic Construction Continues The Dutch team is back in Zavora for the second phase (in total 4) of the construction of the medical clinic in Mozambique. Gerrit-Jan, a Dutch builder, is sweating it out with 3 other volunteers . The aim is to finish the walls and start with the roofing before they return to the Netherlands on 14 June. In addition, another container filled with building material has been donated towards the clinic. Its due for arrival in Durban in early June. Thank you for all those who made this possible.
May 1, 2008 Outreaches planned for the rest of 2008
1) We are planning to host a medical student group from a Cape Town universities in Zavora during June/July. They offered to help with the construction.
2) A team from a Gauteng mission station aim to visit the Zavora, Mozambique clinic during July
3) In September we plan another medical outreach with World Challenge in the poorer communities of South Africa
4) We are planning our next Angola medical outreach for November this year
5) The Dutch Building team plans to return to Zavora during August and October to finish the construction of our clinic
April 15, 2008 Counting the Cost After weeks of planning Mario Rocha, our Portuguese translator and myself left for Mozambique on 28 February. To assist us with the construction a Dutch team, lead by Dr Paul Zuidema and Gerrit-Jan Vierhuizen met us in Maputo. They also shipped a 20 ft container along that was filled with building tools and material donated by our many Dutch friends. ..[more]
April 1, 2008
"The books that should be written..”
During September and October of 2007, Doctors For Life’s (DFL) ‘Aid to Africa’ division hosted a team from World Challenge Medical Missions. Together with Dr Eugene Smith (a specialist physician) and his wife and right hand Arlene, DFL held medical clinics in four of South Africa’s provinces at 7 different locations. More than a thousand patients received medical care while approximately 15,000 medicines ..[more]
March 20 , 2008 Support for the Mobile Clinic A German journalist Aleta Sopha, sent news that they are almost ready to start constructing the mobile clinic unit that she has been doing fundraising for for the past few years. She recently arranged a beneficiary concert in Northern Germany. The clinic could fit on Aid to Africa's MAN all wheel drive truck. Thank you Aleta!
February 23, 2008 HEALTH MINISTER’S PROMOTION OF UNSAFE MEDICINE DISCONCERTING
Doctors For Life International (DFL) is encouraged by the move towards submitting Traditional African Medicine (TAM) to scientific testing and clinical trials. At the same time we find Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang’s comments inappropriate and counterproductive. During an address to the Presidential Task Team on African Traditional Medicine Minister Msimang state that “we cannot use western models of protocols for research and development... ..[more]
February 3, 2008 Donated Container on its way to Zavora Following the death of Danie du Preez, project leader of the construction of Aid to Africa's first clinic in Mozambique (Zavora), we are encouraged by the tremendous support we continue to receive. Developments include the donation of a 20ft container, filled with building materials and tools, that is on its way to Zavora. A construction team from the Netherlands will cast the first foundations in March this year. A special thanks to all the donors and those involved in putting this all together...[more]
January 30, 2008 DON’T CREATE A LEGAL AVENUE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN 2010 Doctors for Life International would suggest that the ANC take disciplinary action against George Lekgetho on grounds of blatant gender discrimination – i.e. telling our young women and men that selling yourself for sex is acceptable as long as you pay tax. DFL is appalled at the ANC’s Lekgetho’s call to legalize prostitution for the 2010 Soccer World Cup...[more]
January 3, 2008 Saying goodbye to 'Oom' Danie du Preez It is with sadness that we say goodbye to 'Oom' (uncle) Danie du Preez, the missionary who headed the Zavora mission station and our clinic in Mozambique. He passed away on the 3rd of January, at 10:40am. The last few days had been a physical struggle for him in hospital, as his kidneys failed and the cancer treatment started taking its toll. He leaves behind his wife Dina and their 4 children. To read the condolences sent from across the globe click here ...[more]
Despite strong objections and numerous appeals from opposition parties the South African Government refuses to follow international trends regarding a conscience clause for health professionals in respect of abortion. Most democracies have legislation to protect doctors and nurses who have conscientious objection to abortion. Recently Dr Henry Morgentaler, a pro-abortionist, known as Canada’s father of abortion stated that, “doctors should not be obliged to do things (referring to abortion) which they don't approve of themselves.” ...[more]
December 08, 2007 Hope For Prostitutes For many years, DFL has been involved with practical assistance programs for prostitutes and therefore welcomes the Government’s latest plan to help prostitutes who want to get out of the business. These measures are more intelligent and proactive than the old mantra of ‘legalise it’. ...[more]
November 26, 2007 Dear Aid to Africa supporters and Friends During the past few months DFL struggled to get the funds, that were donated towards the Zavora clinic in Mozambique, transferred to our Mozambique account. In the past week however, the SA reserve bank finally approved the transfer. ...[more]
October 02, 2007
Brave Pannar Employees Test For HIV The employees at PANNAR’s Head Office took courage when they saw their CEO, Deon van Rooyen set the example by taking an HIV test. Dr Albu van Eeden, CEO of Doctors for Life International led a team of DFL counsellors and did the test on Mr van Royen. ...[more]
September 21, 2007 Parliament Fails to Address Abortion and Traditional Healers Concerns Doctors for Life International (DFL) is disappointed at the way their concerns were misrepresented in the National Council of Provinces when the Traditional Health Practitioners and the Abortion Amendment Bills adopted. During the proceedings ANC MP Faith Mazibuko stated that DFL’s concerns “smacked of discrimination” and were “insulting and disrespectful” to other cultures. She added that DFL failed recognised that the Abortion Amendment sought to protect women and children. ...[more]
September 18, 2007 LIFE Alerts - Special Edition
Suicide Group Secretly Aids Death of a Mentally Ill Woman The corpse of Jana van Voorhis, a 58-year-old Phoenix woman, was found in her home by her sister, Viky Thomas. Because of Jana’s mentally unstable condition, her sister expected to see signs of suicide, like pills and alcohol lying about, but she was surprised to find the place ‘neat and orderly’ in a scene that could have been ‘staged’. ...[more]
September 08, 2007 Doctors For Life Welcomes Warning Lables on Booze The SA Government should be commended for the new regulations that require warning labels for alcoholic beverages which highlights the negative effects of alcohol consumption. This legislation reflects the cutting edge of world wide trends. It is no surprise that the British Public Health Minister Caroline Flint also announced in May 2007, that a voluntary agreement has been reached to put similar warning labels on Britain’s alcoholic beverages by the end of 2008. ...[more]
September 08, 2007 Doctors: No Human Body Parts in Medicine Please The recent report of a terrorized community in the North West Province, where people are too terrified to leave their houses at night after the gruesome muti-murder of a 17 year old boy, is once again drawing attention to the ongoing horror and reality of the practice of muti-murders in South Africa. These body parts somehow find their way to the consumer without ever being advertised as such. However ...[more]
