News

• 3 April 2004
  MOZAMBIQUE - Of 14.000 new cases of infection every day in 2003, no less than 12.000 were people aged between 15 and 45. S. Egidio Community’s DREAM project assists children in Africa Rome (Fides Service) - DREAM programme started by the S. Egidio Community cares for children in many ways. The most important regard treatment of pregnant mothers to ensure two objectives: the life of the mother and the ...
• 3 April 2004
  UGANDA - Overrun with AIDS Uganda is a laboratory for means to fight the virus Testimony from Ugandan born Mrs Rose Busingye directress of “Meeting Point” in Kampala (local NGO working to help AIDS patients and their families) on the occasion of the presentation of Pope John Paul II’s message for Lent 2001. Vatican City (Fides Service) - In Uganda 50% of the country’s children have lost at least one parent because of AIDS. Most of the children are in danger of ending up on the streets and made to work for crime gangs. In ...
• 3 April 2004
  SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho have the highest rate on HIV/AIDS infection on the continent of Africa Pretoria (Fides Service) - AIDS has produced 12 million orphans in Africa, half of them aged 10 to 14. It is estimated that by 2010, because of HIV/AIDS 20 million children under 15 will have lost one or both parents. Th ...
• 3 April 2004
  KENYA - In Kenya 3 people die of AIDS every 5 minutes Vatican City (Fides Service) - AIDS in Africa continues to create serious problems especially for children directly or indirectly affected. Many of them lost one or both parents which robs them of emotion and economic su ...
• 3 April 2004
  THAILAND - “The day a child dies is the saddest day for everyone at the Camillian Centre at Rayong which cares for 31 children aged 4 to 17 most of them with discreet health conditions” Rayong (Fides Service) - “There would be much to say with regard to our relations with the Thai health system in which we are leaders in as far as care for children with AIDS is concerned. I am happy to say that our ch ...
• 3 April 2004
  PERU - The Global Fund will provide antiretroviral drugs within the year, first to 1000 women and then to 3000 persons to reach 7,000. Information on HIV/AIDS in Peru. Lima (Fides Service) - Most of the people in Peru with HIV/AIDS live in the capital Lima which has a population of 8 million. The first case of AIDS in Peru was confirmed in 1983. In 1990 there were con 4000 cases of AID ...
• 3 April 2004
  PERU - “Hogar San Cammillo Peru’s first Family Home opened in 1997 for HIV+ mothers and infants” by Father Zeffirino Montin director of the Centre. Lima (Fides Service) - HOGAR SAN CAMILO, the first home for HIV+ persons in Peru was inaugurated on 30 September 1995 by Camillan Father General, Father Angelo Brusco. It was opened at a moment when there were no struc ...
• 3 April 2004
  BRAZIL - In 2003, the number of new cases reported was 5,762 (3.693 men and 2.069 women) From the beginning of the 1980s to the end of September 2003, the health ministry registered 277,154 cases of AIDS in Brazil, (197,340 men and 79,814 women). In 2003, 5,762 new cases were registered, (3,693 men and 2,06 ...
• 3 April 2004
  VATICAN - HIV/AIDS among children: the HIV+ child becomes an adult By Dr. Castelli Gattinara, of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, President of the Paediatric Infectivology Society Vatican City (Fides Service) - The pandemic of the HIV virus which can cause AIDS, continues to spread all over the world. According to recent reports by the World Health Organisation, as many as 40 million people in the ...
• 3 April 2004
  PERU - 14.718 cases of Aids: summary by Doctor Doris Portocarrero, Directress of the National Initiative for Children’s Rights Group Lima (Fides Service) - According to a recent government report sent to the Committee for Children’s Rights, cases of HIV/AIDS among young people are caused mainly by sexual activity. The ratio of AIDS patients man woma ...
• 3 April 2004
  ITALY - “FAMILIES FOR AFRICA”: UNESCO programme to reduce progression of AIDS in women of child bearing age and prevent HIV/AIDS mother/child infection birth and through breast feeding (Italy) Rome (Fides Service) - The “Families for Africa” project aims to address the serious threat of HIV/AIDS and its impact on families in West Africa. The project launched by UNESCO in July 2002, funded by the Italian go ...
• 3 April 2004
  ITALY - ARCHE’: for association in Italy to care for HIV+ children. Summer holidays 2003 for HIV+ children and mothers living in poor social or health conditions with particular attention for rehabilitation of HIV/AIDS children and adolescents Rome (Fides Service) - It was the first association in Italy to address the problem of HIV/AIDS and children in need of assistance and to guarantee them a life as normal as possible like other children of their age. Born ...
• 3 April 2004
  EUROPE (BALKAN STATES)- Civil wars, economic crisis and political changes among the causes of spreading HIV/AIDS Rome (Fides Service) - The International Organisation for Migration and UNICEF have issued a Report on HIV/AIDS in South East Europe One of the main concerns is constant movement of people workers, refugees, victims of ...
• 2 April 2004
  VATICAN - Twenty years on the Pope entrusts Rome’s youth with the Cross: “Nourished by the Eucharist, united in the Church, carrying your own crosses, let your faith explode as you tell everyone about God’s mercy!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear young friends with ever new creativity inspired by the Holy Spirit in prayer, continue to carry the Cross of Jesus which I entrusted to young people twenty years ago. Those young pe ...
• 2 April 2004
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Concerns voiced by Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, Patriarch of Alexandria of Copt Catholics Cairo (Fides Service) - Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, Patriarch of Alexandria of Copt Catholics has denounced discrimination against Christian churches in Egypt in an article published by the “The Southern Cross” we ...