On the way to the International AIDS conference centre in Vienna the underground fills up with more and more people, not surprising as there are supposedly 25,000 participants. Somehow New York, as one of the most multicultural cities I’ve been too, comes into my mind. Today Vienna experiences an even bigger mix of nationalities. Queuing [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘HAART for Children’
July 21, 2010
HIV workshops day 2
Today’s group of participants is a little different than on Friday as some more participants have arrived in the meantime. The workshops I manage to attend to are “Ethical issues” and “Children and HIV and AIDS”. Ethical issues In this workshop, the presenters examined both the theological principles and values that should serve as the [...]
July 19, 2010
HIV workshops day 1
by Stefan Lechner, Caritas Austria First of all, as promised in the earlier blog, outcomes of Friday’s sessions are summarised. (Catholic HIV and AIDS specialists met before then in Vienna before the International HIV Conference this week). Moving from end-of-life-care to promotion of positive living with HIV Participants in the workshop said that a major [...]
July 19, 2010
AIDS affects everyone
by Stefan Lechner/Caritas Communicator of Caritas Austria Here is an interview with Dr. Kanani Prince Bosco, medical doctor in charge of the health department as a national medical coordinator for Caritas Rwanda. How is the situation of AIDS-orphans in Rwanda? HIV does not choose someone specific, HIV affects everyone. In Rwanda, there are not only [...]
July 19, 2010
Vienna HIV Conference: Catholic networkings on AIDS
by Stefan Lechner It’s Friday afternoon in Vienna, Austria. In the tramway, my neighbour’s main concern is to get to a swimming pool as fast as possible. This week the heat has been impressive and today is the hottest day we’ve had in Vienna this year until now, 36 degrees Celsius in the shadow (97 [...]
June 18, 2010
Caritas praised at UN for work on AIDS
By Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, Head of Caritas Internationalis Delegation in Geneva In conjunction with the 14th meeting of the United Nations Council on Human Rights, it is rare to see a full meeting room during the lunchtime parallel events. On Wednesday, 16 June, there were few empty seats at the Special Session on [...]
June 17, 2010
HIV/AIDS – a challenge for church and society
By Silke Ruprechtsberger, Caritas Austria “No part of the world is free of HIV or of AIDS. This is more than a problem of individuals – it affects whole families, and it affects whole communities”, said Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, the Special Advisor on HIV/AIDS for Caritas Internationalis , at a 14 June press conference in the [...]
June 7, 2010
Was universal access to HIV medications only a fantasy?
by Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo Head of Caritas Internationalis Delegation in Geneva As a veritable “dinosaur” in following the global response to the HIV pandemic, I recall only too vividly my fist visit to Uganda in the late 1980s, where I observed hospital wards crowded with HIV patients and heard constant cries of grief [...]
December 3, 2009
Launch of HAART for Children Campaign in India
Read this entry in French or Spanish The Indian chapter of the Caritas HAART for Children Campaign was launched with much fanfare on the 20th of November 2009 in New Delhi. The event was all the more since it coincided with the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
December 1, 2009
World AIDS Day in solidarity with infected and sick children
From a news website of Vorarlberg Bregenz: Today, on World AIDS Day, Caritas international calls for an improvement of the situation of children Living or affected by HIV/AIDS with the launch of the “HAART for children” campaign. Michael Zündel from the department for International cooperation in Caritas of the Diocese of Feldkirch, and a group [...]
