Welcome to Live the Future

LIVE THE FUTURE: A MODEL TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF HIV AND AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Live the Future Programme is the flagship project of the newly established Metropolitan Foundation, based in the Western Cape. The Programme, which was initially created by Metropolitan using robust actuarial models and many years of data and research, set about defining a set of four scenarios - Winter, Autumn, Spring and Summer - that detail the impact of HIV and AIDS and the range of possible futures for South Africa by 2025 depending on what action is taken. Under the Metropolitan Foundation, the Programme has developed into a comprehensive practical response, complete with publicly available tools, to address one of the largest threats to South Africa's healthy future.

The Live the Future Scenarios
Provides a powerful tool to identify the direction in which a community or organisation is moving
 
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HCT Campaign: The Metropolitan Foundation fully endorses the government's new HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign that aims to test a total of 15 million at-risk people throughout South Africa by the end of June 2011. [read more]

AIDS Conference: Keep up to date with everything that happened at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria during July 18-23 2010. Webcasts of the presentations are available on the Kaiser Family Foundation website.

Live The Future WorkshopsLive the Future Workshops

Live the Future workshops are run by trained and accredited facilitators. They are designed to help organisations and community leaders assess the scenario in which they are currently operating and provide guidance on the collaborative action that is needed to move towards a Summer for All scenario.

The Live the Future scenario tools have been widely acknowledged as some of the most effective ways to create awareness, transfer knowledge and inspire personal and group action to combat the HIV and AIDS epidemic. These workshops are currently being held throughout the Western Cape. [read more]

Western Cape Schools Project

The Foundation is currently working together with the Western Cape’s Metro North Education District (MNED) on a schools-based operation to inspire and empower positive community action. Live the Future accredited facilitators will assist in running a combined three-day workshop in over 50 of the most resource-poor schools in the District. These workshops will help local community leaders to design and implement appropriate projects to tackle the HIV epidemic within their own communities. [read more]