AIDS: A Threat to Humanity –
Confronting the Issue through Education and Medical Treatment at 19th Meeting of International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee 06 November 2006 Cape Town, South Africa By Rev. Robert J. Vitillo Special Adivsor for HIV and AIDS Caritas Internationalis Geneva, Switzerland Please allow…
OVC, Learning and Sharing, June 2006
SACBC AIDS Office “The battle against AIDS ought to be everyone’s battle. Echoing the voice of the Synod Fathers, I too ask pastoral workers to bring to their brothers and sisters affected by AIDS all possible material, moral and spiritual…
Church, State, Society? Whose Responsibility is AIDS?
Sr Alison Munro, OP, SACBC AIDS Office, Pretoria (An updated version of a paper prepared for a conference in Freiburg, October 2003, and originally published as part of the conference papers). Whose responsibility is AIDS? In the post-1994 phase of…
Psychosocial Problems of Children with HIV/AIDS on Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa
Renée van Gelder¹, Lotte Kraakman Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Download Here
Catholic Relief Services Report 2006
Treatment Sites This report is based on data supplied up to October 2006 from 28 reporting sites supported by the Catholic Relief Services and the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference. Twenty four individual clinic site locations located throughout the north…
UNAID BEST PRACTICE COLLECTION
A Faith-Based Reponse to HIV in Southern Africa: the Choose to Care Initiative. Download Here
The Psychosocial Problems of Children with HIV/AIDS on Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa
First Measure. South Africa’s AIDS epidemic is one of the worst in the world, not showing evidence of a decline. Fortunately, ARV treatment programs are starting and expanding, which results in a change in the disease progress from deadly to…
The Psychosocial Problems of Children
The Psychosocial Problems of Children With HIV/AIDS on Antiretroviral Treatment: A Longitudinal Study This longitudinal study focuses on children with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral treatment and their problems in psychosocial functioning. Chronic illness in children can lead to the development of…
Working with Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Sr Alison Munro, OP SACBC AIDS Office, Pretoria, South Africa Geneva January 2006 The SACBC AIDS Office Co-ordinates the response of the Catholic Church to AIDS in South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana. Supports the work of twenty nine dioceses in…
Report of the SACBC AIDS Office, December 2005
January to December 2005 Prevention • Education for Life Programme in a number of dioceses has been supported financially through the AIDS Office. Not all dioceses on board. • Prevention remains the Achilles’ heel of the Church’s AIDS work, as…