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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.
Entries Tagged as ‘HAART for Children’
December 3, 2009
Launch of HAART for Children Campaign in India
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 [...]
June 24, 2009
Two women, two tales of HIV
By Michelle Hough, communications officer
Thabang Society, Parys, South Africa
Watch a film on the effects of AIDS in Swaziland and South Africa.
Sarah* has the face of a young girl, but at the age of 29 she has already been raped, has lost her husband to suicide and has lived through the deaths of her three young [...]
June 16, 2009
HIV in Swaziland: “I want to proceed with my dreams”
“I know what I want, sex can wait.”
This was the message on posters at the National AIDS Council in Manzini, Swaziland. A mixture of awareness raising and empowerment. They even had children’s books with sound effects and pictures to teach younger generations about AIDS and TB.
“Faith-based initiatives also have an impact,”said Busi Dlamini, the centre’s coordinator. [...]
June 16, 2009
Swaziland: Improving testing outreach
By Michelle Hough, communications officer
Watch a film on the effects of AIDS in Swaziland and South Africa.
“AIDS: Don’t die of ignorance” was just one of the public service announcements that the British Government used in the mid-1980s to shock people into behaving responsibly.
The people I visited in rural Swaziland yesterday, who had HIV and who [...]
June 15, 2009
HAART for Children: the challenge Swaziland faces
By Michelle Hough, Communications Officer
Watch a film on the effects of AIDS in Swaziland and South Africa.
A group of 40 women and children are waiting for us as we arrive in the rural area of Velebantfu. They all have HIV, and so do many of the children.
I ask where all the men are. I’m told [...]
June 14, 2009
HAART for Children: Arrival in Swaziland
By Michelle Hough, communications officer
Watch a film on the effects of AIDS in Swaziland and South Africa.
Abba was on the CD player, pizza was on the menu and there was a car park full of 4×4s outside. It could have been any American town on a quiet Sunday night. But it wasn’t, it was Manzini [...]
March 6, 2009
I HAART children
by Francesca Merico, delegation of Caritas Internationalis for the United Nationas in Geneva
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Poe was born with HIV. She is 18. When I met her in Thailand in 2006 she looked healthy and charming. Poe has benefited from effective antiretroviral therapy, for many years now.
When I met Mai, she [...]
