Quick facts: Ten facts to mark the 30th World AIDS Day
Thomson Reuters Foundation The global campaign to end AIDS has made significant strides but the epidemic remains one of the world’s leading public health challenges, affecting almost 37 million people. Campaigners say one of the biggest challenges in the fight to end AIDS is encouraging people to get tested and making them aware of treatment […]
AIDS: FAITH GROUPS CHALLENGED TO OVERCOME WORLD’S HIV COMPLACENCY
PAUL JEFFREY, in an article first published on the World Council of Churches website, reports from this year’s International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam…
Among children, AIDS epidemic is far from over, UNICEF finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation Eighteen children every hour were infected with HIV last year, a sign of scant progress in protecting the world’s young from the deadly AIDS-causing virus, the United Nations’ children’s agency said on Friday. At the current rate of infection, there will be 3.5 million new cases of HIV among adolescents by 2030, […]
POSTCARDS: IN KENYA, A HIV-POSITIVE PASTOR AND HIS WIFE MODEL NEW THINKING ABOUT AIDS
As World AIDS Day was marked on 1st December, FREDRICK NZWILI reports on how one pastor and his wife are showing there is a different way to treat people with HIV and AIDS…
ESSAY: FAITH COMMUNITIES OFFER A PATHWAY TO ENDING AIDS IN AFRICA
MICHEL SIDIBÉ, executive director of UNAIDS, says faith communities continue to have an important role to play in responding to the HIV crisis, especially in the global south…
Kenyan faith leaders urge better treatment for children with HIV
RNS Children gather with religious leaders for Day of the African Child celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 16, 2017. PICTURE: RNS/Fredrick Nzwili Kenyan faith leaders called on pharmaceutical companies to prioritise the development of affordable, easy-to-swallow HIV drugs for children as part of the Day of the African Child event. Joining in a procession, speeches, dances […]
41,000 adolescents died of AIDS in 2015 – UNICEF report
AIDS claimed the lives of 41,000 adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years during 2015 alone, according to a new report from UNICEF. The UN child-focused agency’s 7th stocktaking report, For Every Child, End AIDS – released to mark World AIDS Day on 1st December, also reveals that there were almost two million adolescents aged between […]
Christian leaders encouraged to get tested for HIV in bid to end stigma
Christians are among religious leaders being encouraged to get tested for HIV in an effort to encourage others to do so, under a campaign launched by the World Council of Churches on 1st December – World AIDS Day. The ‘Leading by Example: Religious Leaders and HIV Testing’ campaign, which is being launched at thw WCC’s […]
ESSAY: “THEY HAVE NO WINE”
Rev Dr NYAMBURA NJOROGE, programme executive for the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa of the World Council of Churches, responds to the 2010 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic…
UNAIDS says Pope’s condom move makes HIV cooperation easier
Geneva/Rome ENInews The head of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, says a statement by Pope Benedict XVI that the use of condoms is justified when intended to reduce “the risk of HIV infection” will make it easier for international organisations to cooperate with faith-based organizations in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Sidibé is the executive director […]