|
NEW World AIDS Day Campaign 2011
On World AIDS Day the world community is being challenged to work on achieving Three Zeros: Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination, Zero AIDS-related deaths. What will we do to make it happen?
Secretary General Mr. Ban ki Moon notes that as we head into the fourth decade of AIDS, we are finally in a position to end the epidemic.
Read more » |
|
HIV-AIDS
has worldwide
implications,
both from a
health and a
pastoral
perspective.
The world
community,
through the UN,
has committed
itself to working
to eradicate the
scourge of AIDS.
|
|
India — Don Bosco Cares for HIV-Infected Youngsters at Salem
(Tiruchy) The Salesian province of Tiruchy, India has opened Don Bosco Care Home at Nilavaarappatti, Salem on August 16, 2011. Thirty youngsters and boys, rejected by their families and society because of their status as HIV positive, now have a home.
Read more » |
|
|
Education for Life: HIV-AIDs the Salesian Response
The Salesians are committed to addressing HIV-AIDS through education,
prevention strategies, and treatment of those infected with or affected by the disease.
See our guide for educators, which includes three years of documentation for the teachers and the pupils.
Read more » |
|
|
Love Really Matters — The Salesians of South Africa
Confront AIDS
The
Salesians of South Africa at the Don
Bosco Centre in Walkerville, 30 kms
south of Johannesburg, developed a
program called LoveMatters to
counteract some of the popular programs
used to combat AIDS, believing
that the Church needed to promote
a program based on true love
and commitment, not just convenience.
Read more » |
|
|
AIDS Orphans in Tanzania — The Salesians lend a helping hand
Tanzania, like so many
other African countries, has
not been spared from the
AIDS pandemic. There are
many NGOs (Non-Governmental
Organizations) working very
diligently to help overcome
the spread of the disease, but
the virus has been able to multiply
far faster than the efforts
to educate and assist the poor
who are afflicted with or
affected by the disease.
Read more » |
|
|
AIDS Hits
Women Harder,
Warns Vatican — Cardinal Lozano Barragán
Stresses Scope of Pandemic
The Vatican says the impact of
HIV/AIDS on women, whose
infection rate is higher than
men’s, “increases inequality and
hinders progress toward the universality
of rights.”
Read more » |
|
|
South Africa — Milestone as LoveMatters hosts 100th group
In the last week of June, 2009 at the Bosco Youth Center in Randvaal, Johannesburg, the Salesians of St John Bosco celebrated the completion of their 100th LoveMatters program.
Read more » |
|
|
|
Italy – Two Concerts to Help Children with HIV/AIDS
The Association for South India organized two concerts, Children for Children, in Rome, March 25th and 26th 2008 to raise funds for children in southern India who live on the streets and/or are infected with HIV/AIDS. They are cared for at the Don Bosco Institute in the Tiruchy Province in India.
Read more » |
|
|
