1956 - Birth of Auxillia Chimusoro
1987 - Auxillia
Chimusoro tested HIV positive
1989 - Auxillia
Chimusoro revealed her HIV positive status on national TV
Life became stigma and discrimination for Auxillia -
supported by close friends
Anna Baisse-Munemo, Bardy MacNair and Dr. Charles
Todd
1992 - 12 HIV
positive people from different parts of Zimbabwe met in Harare discussing their
plight as people living with HIV and decided to form support groups
-
Auxillia started Batanai HIV and
AIDS support group in Rujeko T/ship, Masvingo
- Auxillia and other members of
Batanai facilitated the formation, training and coordination of other support
groups
-
Co-founded Zimbabwe National Network
of People living with HIV (ZNNP+)
1996 – Batanai
builds a 2 roomed core house in Rujeko T/ship
-
Registration of Batanai as a PVO
-
More support groups formed in Gutu,
Chivi, Masvingo Rural and Chiredzi
-
Provincial Coordinator of ZNNP+
-
Worked closely with National AIDS
Co-ordination Programme (NACP) now called National AIDS Council (NAC)
-
Co-founder of Women and AIDS Support
Network (WASN)
1997 – Auxillia
Chimusoro joined by Peter Marimi assisting as her health was deteriorating.
1998 – More than 25
support groups formed in Masvingo Province
AUXILLIA CHIMUSORO ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
Executive
Member of NAP+ (Network of African People living with HIV and AIDS)
Co-founder of ICW (International Community of Women living
with HIV and AIDS)
Attended international conferences and meetings.
June 1998 – Passed away in Harare
BATANAI AFTER AUXILLIA CHIMUSORO
Peter Marimi took over as Provincial
Coordinator of support groups.
1998 - Batanai
House extended to add 4 more rooms and a toilet
- Batanai continues to facilitate formation, training and
coordination and of support groups in Masvingo Province
1999 – First
Provincial Congress of all support groups in Masvingo Province.
2000 – Batanai
ceases formation, training and coordination as support groups in Masvingo
Province open the first ZNNP+
Provincial Office in the country.
- Things went quiet at Batanai with the support group going on
meeting at Batanai House.
2001 – Peter Marimi
left ZNNP+
2003 – Farai
Mahaso, son of Auxillia Chimusoro, decides to revive Batanai as an organisation
after he had completed his university studies and invited Peter Marimi to join
him.
2003 May - Farai
Mahaso and Peter Marimi teamed up to revive Batanai as an organisation working
from Batanai House in Rujeko T/ship with Marimi as Coordinator and Mahaso in
charge of Programmes.
2004
August – Batanai asked to coordinate support groups in Masvingo Province after
the collapse of ZNNP+. FEPA, a funding agency, agreed to support albeit in a
small way. Marimi and Mahaso were joined by Aaron Gono who was acting as
Finance Clerk.
2005
August – Batanai asked to cease coordinating support groups by Minister of
Health and Child Welfare as it was hoped that ZNNP+ was going to be revived.
2006
– Batanai the organisation moved office from Batanai House to the CBD of
Masvingo to increase visibility and availability. Batanai the support group
continued to meet at Batanai House.
- Batanai begun offering post-test
support in Masvingo in partnership with The Centre who offered to support a
professional counsellor in the person of Cathia Dehwe. PSI later offered
Batanai its franchise to run its New Life Post Test Support Programme.
2007
– Batanai started running the New Life Post Test Programme as its first major
programme.
- Oxfam GB came in supporting a
Community Home Based care programme in Gutu.
- Gutu sub office opened
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