Defaulting from AIDS treatment is still a serious problem in South Africa
FOCUS (Faith Based Organizational Capacity Strengthening Universal HIV Treatment Program Funded by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) South Africa has an estimated 7.1 million people living with HIV (PLHIV), with a projected increase to 7.5 million by 2020. In 2017, PEPFAR…
Catholic Church Continues to build houses for orphans and vulnerable children
Despite South Africa being a middle income country it has huge disparities between the rich and the poor, the reality which is evident in both rural and urban areas. Many poor people from rural areas migrate to the cities…
Catholic Church Aids Office Builds Houses for the Disadvantaged People in South Africa
SACBC AIDS Office August 2018 A new house Over the past ten years the SACBC AIDS Office has included among its programmes a house-building project. There is nothing elaborate about the two-roomed, very simple houses that are constructed for poor…
SACBC AIDS Office Networking for Social Impact, Offering Signs of Hope
SACBC AIDS Office Networking for Social Impact Offering Signs of Hope Sr Alison Munro OP, Former Director, SACBC AIDS Office, Pretoria, South Africa July 2018 Read more…….
“Bringing back hope”: How Faith-Based Responses to HIV and AIDS Differ from Secular Responses
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Catholic Church Partners with the Government to Combat TB in South Africa.
SACBC Staff Working in the TB Project. TB is one of the killer diseases in South Africa. When it has been discovered early, and one adheres faithfully to the treatment, a person can fully recover from TB and be completely cured. …
SACBC AIDS Office AIDS Office Annual Report 2016
Sr Alison Munro OVC PROGRAMME The OVC Programme has been supported by three PEFPAR District Partners since October 2015, i.e. Aurum, Health Systems Trust and Beyond Zero. From October 2016, a fourth PEPFAR partner was added, TBHIV Care,…
