The Common Vein

Dr Clive Evian

Wife Sarah

Children

Shai

Nikia married to Lance

Tahl

Shira

AIDS Management and Support

Email: drclive@icon.co.za

P.O.Box 92022 Norwood 2117 RSA

Tel: (+27 )  0 11 7866492  Fax (+27 ) 0865044425 or (+27) 0 11 7866492

Mobile: 0824563717

email

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Since we last met in 1969 ?much has happended ? as it has for you as well

After a horrific year in the army where I basically did a closeted disobedience thing  until they lost their stamina and left me to do my own thing. I really did loathe apartheid and would not really learn to fight for the SA government at the time

I studied medicine at Wits and then went travelling mainly to Australia where I spent 4 years doing mainly general medicine and paediatrics and a year of locum work. I cam back to SA in 1982 and went to work in a rural health care outreach programme, based near Orpen Gate of the Kruger park. We were funded by Anglo American to look into developing an appropriate rural health care services for a post apartheid era. It was a very exciting time, working in the rural hospital and having the privilege of training health care personnel and developing services as we felt best. We worked as a close team and believed we were changing the world, fighting apartheid through health care, writing papers, doing teaching and research, and developing a system of radical adult education in our course on a Paulo Frerian model of education for change ? it was a special time!!  We were a team of young doctors and nurses and others with much political and health care passion. I spent nearly 10 years on this programme and learnt so much. It was lekker being near the Kruger Park, serving my other passion ? the wilderness and the general lowveld bush, the 800+ species of birds, the Drakensburg mountains etc. In that time I also studied adult education and began my specialty in Community Health (Public Health Medicine) which I completed in 1991.

After returning to JHB in 1989 I took up a post at the JHB City Health Dept and was asked to head up their new HIV response programme. I did not know much about AIDS then, neither did anyone else in S Africa (a few had started ? but very few). I suddenly became this precocious AIDS expert and developed the departments AIDS programme, I also worked at the HIV clinic at the JHB hospital and set up all kind of programmes including community awareness and education, media development, wrote books, epidemiological research on the subject, set up a community centre doing testing, hot line information, training, counselling health care etc. I stayed on for about 6 years and then went out on my own as a free lance consultant. Since then I have done various public health HIV work ? lots of prevalence surveillance, teaching and training, consulting, programme work and evaluation, clinical work etc. My work has taken me to most countries in Africa and also beyond, and it has been 20 years of privilege and exciting work and travel at the forefront of a new epidemic at the epicenter of the epidemic. In recent years I have de-accelrated a bit, I work less hectically now and spend more time in some get away places I acquire din Scarborough in the Cape, Tsitsikamma Forests, camping out and travelling in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia etc. I am mainly involved Wild4life now which is implementing HIV programmes in Wild Life projects in Africa, I also work for Right to care, a large NGO funded by the Global AIDS fund to help the SA government implement HIV care.

Living in South Africa has been exciting and at times quite hectic. Prior to the new government coming in the country was on the verge of violent revolution but the change was spectacular, living through history etc. I was invited to the ANC celebration party on the victory of the first election ? it was awesome. South Africa to  is like an adolescent country, full of excitement, new things and potential risk ? as with everything in life ? it has its costs and opportunities ? I try and get high on the opportunities and minimise the costs as much as possible.

Personally I am married to Sarah, my Kabbalist wife and who has studied jewish mysticism for nearly 30 years, she is a ceramicist as well and teaches pottery and Chasidus. As you can imagine she somewhat converted me to a more religious life style ? searching for G-d. I really hope Hashem is out there somewhere ? if not ? then  I don?t really know what we are all trying to do. I do sometimes have to fight my closeted agnostic tendency. I find the Torah very inspiring and a breath of fresh morality for this world and my life. Sarah and I are good soul mates as well and do our best when chilling out in the wilds somewhere!! I really  dig sport especially rugby and cricket and we are doing well now and an Arsenal fan, do a lot of photography and gardening and chill out at movies and with friends!

I have 4 special children aged now 29-17yrs ? 2 boys and 2 girls. My youngest is in Matric next year ? cant wait till she finishes and get the school thing done. My sons run an innovative business called Liquid Chefs ? providing jazzy mobile cocktail services and their clients include Google in UK, FIFA, SA Rugby Test VIP suites, pop concerts VIP services, parliament openings,  etc ? they have been very successful. My one daughter is almost a bio-kinetisist  what ever this means! And she got married recently.

I have much more to tell but do not expect you to spend your time reading about me ? I do not do face book or twitter (yet) if you want to know more try a Google!! ? hope to see u at the re union

Clive

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?Clive is a seriously Jewish South African, whose life is enriched through Torah and community, enjoyment of the natural landscape, capturing its beauty in photographs, and gardening. Clive is a registered specialist in Community Health. He has been working almost entirely with the HIV/AIDS in South Africa since the very early days of the epidemic. He has extensive experience in the public, private and non governmental sectors. His work entails extensive travel in sub Saharan Africa. His interest is in the epidemiology of HIV and its determinants. Clive has presented his research at many international and national conferences, appeared on radio and television and has authored numerous papers on the subject. He has also written a number of widely used books on HIV and the care of people with the disease. ?

Sessions

• HIV/AIDS Sense and Sensibility ? a Deeper Understanding of the Epidemic; Why is it so Extensive in Southern Africa, and Why Now. ( General interest ; Social activism )

Attached a pic of us all, the guy with my daughter in the middle ? is her husband Lance, the youngest one on the right is Shira with Tahl and Shai and Nikia her husband and my mom