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Combating HIV and AIDS
"Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse." This African proverb sums up what many of us may think or feel about HIV/AIDS and the part that it plays in our lives. It is often easier to ignore things that are difficult or challenging, but as Martin Luther King Jnr said so profoundly: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." Once we know there is a problem, we are compelled to act. We know there is an AIDS epidemic. We cannot stand by and watch it unfold and not help.
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Kenyan
official blames poverty, HIV/AIDS on upsurge of TB crisis
High prevalence of HIV/AIDS, high poverty levels and rapid growth
of the urban poor population has contributed to the upsurge of tuberculosis
in Kenya , a senior official disclosed here Friday. Kenya 's Assistant
Minister for Health Wilfred Machage, however, said Kenya has outlined
its emergence plan for controlling the preventable disease, saying a
comprehensive approach to TB control is in place aimed at delivering
the new Stop TB Strategy that will help the country to derive towards
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for TB by 2015. People's
Daily Online, 25th March 2006
Act now to stop HIV/AIDS in children, UN says
The United Nations called on governments on Friday to take immediate
steps to better protect children from HIV/AIDS and ensure better treatment
for those infected. At the end of 2005, an estimated 30,000 children
in East Asia and the Pacific were living with HIV or AIDS, nearly 11,000
of them newly infected, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
said in a statement at a conference in Hanoi. Reuters,
24th March 2006
Scientists around globe unite to combat AIDS
Each day, 13,000 people worldwide contract the virus that causes
AIDS, the United Nations estimates. But two decades after the disease
was first identified, scientists are still struggling to find a vaccine
that could help contain its spread. More than 70 AIDS vaccines have
reached human trials. Only one has made it to advanced testing, and
it has shown little sign of being effective, according to the International
AIDS Vaccine Initiative, an advocacy organisation. Chicago Tribune,
24th March 2006
AIDS orphans struggle to survive
Poking out of Patrice Mavia's purple plastic sandals are toes dark
and swollen with blood, ragged and infected as if chewed by jagged
teeth. His fingers seem to be in a similarly painful state. Adella
Kessy, a nurse at the Catholic hospital in the foothills of Tanzania
's Mount Kilimanjaro , said tiny sand fleas are to blame. Left unchecked,
the insects form painful pustules and lesions, destroy fingers and
toes, and eventually leave a victim crippled. The
Washington Times, 23rd March 2006 |
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Reaching out to HIV and AIDS affected families in PNG
It is with great sadness that we received the news that Judy Michael, whose story features in this week's Project Compassion materials, passed away on 14 March. Judy's story touched many lives very deeply. Her story reminds us that behind the horrific statistics (over 40 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS and 30 million people worldwide have died as a result of HIV/AIDS) are human beings - mums, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, kids.
At a time when she and her husband were shunned within their community for living positively with HIV, she dared to challenge the stigma and discrimination entrenched in communities around the world. "I don't want any one to ever have to go through what I went through," Judy said, and so she dedicated the rest of her life to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and supporting those living positively or affected by HIV/AIDS. You can read Judy's by click here. |
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Living positively with Roman Catholic teaching and transmitting the truth about HIV/AIDS
Julie Clague from Glasgow University says that adopting a liberation theology approach to HIV/AIDS will enable the church to respond positively and truthfully to the AIDS pandemic. Cafod
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Global Health Facts
Global Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and colour-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses.
www.globalhealthfacts.org/index.jsp
Africa
Action
Africa Action is the oldest organisation in the USA working for political, economic and social justice in Africa . Check out their campaign to end HIV/AIDS in Africa which has a range of useful resources. Their latest fact sheet examines how gender inequalities are a major driving force behind the global HIV/AIDS crisis leaving women and girls most vulnerable.
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What does HIV mean to young people around the world? Combining music from local DJs, this radio program provides an insight into how the disease is affecting younger generations in Accra , Kingston ( Jamaica ), Kiev and Mum bai.
BBC World Service, (Download audio files) |
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"We reject all forms of discrimination and stigma, because we believe in God, who created the world in all its diversity and colour: HIV positive and negative alike.
We honour the dignity of all people, because we believe in Jesus Christ, who took upon himself the pain and suffering of the world: carers and sufferers alike.
We speak and act with one prophetic voice, because we believe in the Holy Spirit, who summons us out of our complacency: voiceless and influential alike.
And we call upon governments to honour their commitments of funds and services in the fight against HIV, as we stand as one with those who live in the shadow of HIV.
For the eyes of the Lord are upon us all."
www.e-alliance.ch/media/media-6093.doc
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Combating HIV and AIDS 
