Preparations are under way for the establishment of South Africa’s first Aids museum, to be located on the site of Soweto’s largest hospital, the Baragwanath.
Historian and organising committee member Sue Krige said that organisers are currently in talks with international donors to secure the funding necessary to open the museum’s doors.
Krige, along with other organisers, medical personnel and aid groups, has been coordinating the collection of suitable exhibits since March 2003.
Along with posters and information about the negative social effects of the virus, the museum is expected to inform visitors about the Aids situation in other parts of the world and to tell the individual stories of some sufferers of the disease.
The project will also feature a mobile exhibition to bring the museum’s message around South Africa, where up to 5,3-million people are estimated to be infected with the virus. – Sapa