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…….
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. …
Pastoral training for Africa on AIDS
People engaged in pastoral care around AIDS in different countries across Africa converged at a venue near Johannesburg for the first training of trainers organised by SECAM in a series that will training for Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone countries. The…
Catholic Ethicists meet in Nairobi, Kenya
The SACBC AIDS Office, the SACBC Catholic Parliamentary Office and the Jesuit Institute were represented among the delegates to a conference in Nairobi, Kenya in late August 2102 examining aspects of Africae Munus the post synodal document presented to the…
Is Universal Access to Antiretroviral Treatment a Myth or Reality?
Some Experiences of the Catholic Church in South Africa Sr Alison Munro, OP The Catholic Church in South Africa has initiated over 40 000 people diagnosed with AIDS on anti-retroviral treatment since 2004 with funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for…
The crisis of the international financial system and the consequences for the fight against AIDS
An experience of the Catholic Church in South Africa Sr Alison Munro, OP Director, Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC ) AIDS Office, Pretoria, South Africa[1] 1. Introduction The SACBC AIDS Office has experienced changing patterns of donor funding over…
Is Universal Access a Myth or Reality at Local Level?
By Sr Alison Munro Director, Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC ) AIDS Office, Pretoria, South Africa June 2011 I. Introduction South Africa is the country with both the highest number of people infected with HIV, and the largest antiretroviral…
The Church in Partnership
Bishop Kevin Dowling, 3 February 2010 Address at dinner, SACBC/CRS Partnership Conference, 3 February 2010 My dear sisters and brothers, friends, In a recent edition of Time Magazine, dated 18 January 2010, I came across an article headed “The New…
ADDRESS TO THE SACBC AIDS MEETING
“How can I understand a figure or a statistic unless I have held the hand that it represents? The people we are talking about are the same as us. By the way we treat them, we know just how much…
Continuing the Mission of Jesus
Alison Munro The Catholic Church, it seems to me, is an organisation that is willing to get involved in the messiness of life. This is certainly the case when one looks at the arena of the AIDS pandemic where we…