About Brothers for Life
Brothers for Life is a national Men’s Campaign that aims to create a movement of men that will ignite and spread throughout South Africa. The campaign draws upon the spirit of Brotherhood that exists among South African men and to encourage men to positively influence each other as men, partners, and parents and as leaders. Read More...
Events
Brothers for Life – Welkom
Lesedi-Lechabile Men Engage (MEP) and High Transmission Area (HTA) programmes will partner with the Beatrix’s HIV and Wellness Committee for the World Aids day event and deliver key messages in relation to HIV prevention and launch the Brothers for Life Campaign in Welkom. Read More...
Ambassadors
Click here to view the Brothers for Life Ambassadors
Gallery
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Spreading HIV awareness through fun and football The United States Government’s various HIV/AIDS education and prevention projects under the umbrella of Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA) were showcased to staff and partners during a day of edutainment, football and fun in the sun on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
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Messages of Support
Message of support by the Deputy President of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe. "It is appropriate that Brothers for Life – a new national campaign that responds to the call for partnership against HIV and which is also seeks to contribute to the rebuilding f the moral fabric of our society, is taking place during the Women’s Month..." Read More...
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Tools & Resources
Men and their perceptions of Risks
Research from around the world has indicated that, on average, males have
a shorter life expectancy than females, males tend to have higher rates of
premature mortality than females, males engage in riskier behaviours that
contribute to diseases and disability than females, and that males visit
health-care facilities less than females. Studies have further shown that
life expectancy and early death in adulthood is related to, amongst other things,
HIV and Aids,transport related injury, violence, alcohol consumption,
physical inactivity, poor diet and national income.
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