Faith groups prepare for World AIDS Day
-27/11/05
Christians of all denominations and
Faith groups prepare for World AIDS Day
-27/11/05
Christians of all denominations and people from a variety of faith communities are preparing to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December 2005 ñ and UK-based international development agency Christian Aid has produced an online pack of resources to support religious action and reflection in Britain and beyond.
An estimated 40 million people throughout the world are living with HIV, with 25 million of them living in sub-Saharan Africa.
But the global pandemic, which the United Nations last week aid was still being underestimated by many governments, is known to be growing fastest.
HIV/AIDS has already impacted over 8 million in the region, and specialists say that this is set to grow to around 20 million in the next five years, if urgent action is not taken.
The Christian Aid material, entitled ëActs of Faithí is therefore focussing especially on Asiaís ësilent tsunamií.
The pack is a free collection of stories and reflections from people of different faiths, produced by Christian Aid in association with St Johns Cathedral in Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, Catholic social justice organisations are to focus their World AIDS Day attention on Central America, and particularly El Salvador.
Although only about the size of Wales, El Salvador has significant problems as it tries to deal with the impact of HIV/AIDS.
It is struggling now to deal with the aftermath of floods and mudslides following recent Central American hurricane devastation.
The desperately poor population, including growing numbers of people living with HIV has little access to state health care systems providing sporadic HIV treatments. The epidemic has all the hallmarks of how HIV commonly impacts on resource-poor countries trying to recover from years of military violence, oppression and civil war.
[Also on Ekklesia: Churches face up to world AIDS pandemic; Christian-owned company produces cheap AIDS drugs; Pope faces controversy on gay priests and HIV/AIDS; Churches sign AIDS code; Cardinal calls for reduction in price of AIDS medicines]
Access the Christian Aid resources here
Faith groups prepare for World AIDS Day
-27/11/05
Christians of all denominations and people from a variety of faith communities are preparing to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December 2005 – and UK-based international development agency Christian Aid has produced an online pack of resources to support religious action and reflection in Britain and beyond.
An estimated 40 million people throughout the world are living with HIV, with 25 million of them living in sub-Saharan Africa.
But the global pandemic, which the United Nations last week aid was still being underestimated by many governments, is known to be growing fastest.
HIV/AIDS has already impacted over 8 million in the region, and specialists say that this is set to grow to around 20 million in the next five years, if urgent action is not taken.
The Christian Aid material, entitled ëActs of Faith’ is therefore focussing especially on Asia’s ësilent tsunami’.
The pack is a free collection of stories and reflections from people of different faiths, produced by Christian Aid in association with St Johns Cathedral in Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, Catholic social justice organisations are to focus their World AIDS Day attention on Central America, and particularly El Salvador.
Although only about the size of Wales, El Salvador has significant problems as it tries to deal with the impact of HIV/AIDS.
It is struggling now to deal with the aftermath of floods and mudslides following recent Central American hurricane devastation.
The desperately poor population, including growing numbers of people living with HIV has little access to state health care systems providing sporadic HIV treatments. The epidemic has all the hallmarks of how HIV commonly impacts on resource-poor countries trying to recover from years of military violence, oppression and civil war.
[Also on Ekklesia: Churches face up to world AIDS pandemic; Christian-owned company produces cheap AIDS drugs; Pope faces controversy on gay priests and HIV/AIDS; Churches sign AIDS code; Cardinal calls for reduction in price of AIDS medicines]