News
5 April 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesia votes in general elections: “It is fundamental that politics and religion are separate” local Catholic Bishop told Fides
Jakarta (Fides Service) - Elections in Indonesia start today. The vote in the populous country 145 eligible voters out of a population of 210 million will last until the Summer, July 5 when there will be the first round ...
5 April 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - “The new government must focus on peace, freedom and national prosperity Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Colombo told Fides after general elections
Colombo (Fides Service) - “We hope the peace process will continue and this is the responsibility of the new government whatever it is. We and all the people of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese and Tamils, want an era of peace, fr ...
5 April 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Pakistan Evangelisation over the radio for 38th World Communications Day
Lahore (Fides) - To mark the Catholic Church’s 38th World Communications Day this year 2004, in Pakistan 16 May, the Church in Pakistan will use all the means at its disposal radio, audio-visual cassettes, music casset ...
3 April 2004
The World Health Organisation estimates that in the world more than 40 million people suffer from AIDS and that last year more than 2.6 million died of AIDS and there were 5 million new cases among adults and 700,000 among children.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Although AIDS is not longer a front page subject, in Italy there are thousands of new cases of HIV + persons every year. Italian children with HIV/AIDS (about 600) no longer die because the ...
3 April 2004
VATICAN - CHILDREN AND AIDS: “Fathers have eaten green grapes thus their children’s teeth are on edge ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - We known that HIV/AIDS is mainly transmitted through sexual relations. Adults are responsible for their actions of which they must face the consequences. But how does this virus if not by a ...
3 April 2004
TANZANIA - AIDS IN AFRICA: a battle which can be won
CUAMM Statement on AIDS by Marzia Franzetti, co-ordinator AIDS group
Rome (Fides Service) - CUAMM - Doctors with Africa, which has worked to improve the health of people in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1950s found itself faced with the HIV/AIDS pandemic from the start and it has sought to ...
3 April 2004
BURKINA FASO - Saint Camillo Medical Centre in Ouagadougou and prevention of HIV/AIDS mother/child infection
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Burkina Faso is one of the west African countries most affected by HIV/AIDS. According to the World Health Organisation out of a population of a little more than 12 million, every year at le ...
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 ...
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