As I was visiting hospitals and health huts in Senegal, I was also receiving e-mailed updates on House GOP budget cuts. The Global Fund, down 40 percent. Child survival programs, which include anti-malaria efforts, down 10 percent. AIDS relief, down 8 percent. Development assistance, down 30 percent.These reductions were intended to be symbolic, but what do they symbolize? Fiscal responsibility? Hardly. No one can reasonably claim that the budget crisis exists because America spends too much on bed nets and AIDS drugs. … Claiming courage or credit for irrelevant cuts in foreign assistance is a net subtraction from public seriousness on the deficit. So, do these cuts symbolize the Republican rejection of fuzzy-headed liberalism? Actually, the main initiatives on malaria and AIDS were created under Republican leadership.
via The Sider Center at Eastern University.
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Categories: Africa, AIDS, Children, Developement, Foreign Policy, Malaria, Millenium Development Goals, Public Policy, Social Justice, The common good, The whole Gospel
The quake that rocked Haiti at the beginning of this year was beyond devastating, instantly. I don’t need to barrage you with statistics because I think most of us have a general understanding of what happened and how it left the country in even deeper poverty.
But it only occurred to me yesterday, in talking with my colleague Renee Targos, that the earthquake also dramatically changed the course of HIV/AIDS in Haiti. Before the quake, about 200,000 people were known to be infected with HIV. That number may well be higher today, according to Dr. Marlene Adrien Dorismond, the FH health programs manager whom Renee interviewed.
via Poverty 180: In Haiti, what does the earthquake have to do with HIV/AIDS?.
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Today, 33.4 million people are living with HIV, 2.1 million of whom are children. For every person receiving treatment, six more individuals are newly infected with HIV. We can stop this number from growing—HIV can be prevented.
“To have HIV virus is not the end of life”
—Rose Mbabu, HIV positive,
Community Health Worker/Kenya
Food for the Hungry is seeking justice for victims of HIV/AIDS by organizing preventive and treatment programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda and Haiti. Learn about the stories of our programs and join individuals who have experienced hope in celebrating their victory against HIV/AIDS.
via Celebrate World AIDS Day.
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I am happily out of the political business. But I can offer some friendly advice to members of Congress, new and old. A thousand pressing issues come with each day. But there are only a few that you will want to talk about in retirement with your children. The continuing fight against global AIDS is something for which America will be remembered. And you will never regret the part you take.
via George W. Bush – America’s global fight against AIDS.
Although I disagree with much of what President Bush did in his presidency I applaud and commend him for the work he did to combat AIDS.
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World AIDS Day: A Letter from Mozambique
by Rebecca J. Vander Meulen
LICHINGA, MOZAMBIQUE — Today is the day when people around the world recognize our common daily work (which is—in a country where most families include someone living with HIV—our daily life). It is my eighth World AIDS Day in Mozambique, and I sense that in addition to being older and wiser, we’re also all getting a bit tired. We see that, as a country, we’ve made incredible progress (best encapsulated by the emergence of widespread access to testing and later to treatment).
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via World AIDS Day: A Letter from Mozambique – Bread Blog.
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Here are just a few links for World AIDS Day Wednesday 1 December 2010
Contact Congress
Reduce a mom’s risk of passing HIV to her baby.
Rejecting the AIDS stigma.
World Vision ACTs AIDS
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AIDS is Real and It’s in Our Church: HIV/AIDS in the African Church
Is a website and featuring a downloadable pdf book and online version on AIDS and the Church in Africa. This looks to be a very good resource for churches and individuals dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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UNICEF has a new publication available as a Pdf. file: Children and AIDS: Third Stocktaking Report, 2008
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