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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is drawing on its experience with HIV in South Africa to teach compassion and reduce the stigma surrounding Covid-19. In an effort to bolster the confidence of healthcare workers retuning to their jobs after recovering from the virus, MSF asked a local NGO to produce beaded lapel pins depicting a crown. "A 'corona' is a crown, and the idea is that survivors of this virus in our community will wear their crowns with pride,"Lulama Sigasana, head of the Ikamva Labantu Seniors' Programme, told Africa News. "In the earlier years of the HIV fight, we would mobilize communities by singing,"says Fanela Gwashu who works with MSF and South Africa's foremost AIDS advocacy group, the Treatment Action Campaign. "Our communities sing in the face of challenges, we sing away stigma, we sing away injustice and we sing away barriers to better care. In our Covid-19 song, we tell people that coronavirus will be overcome with love and support," she says.
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