Bling For a Better World
AIDS
Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 5-01-2004
With 35,000 churches and monasteries and 500,000 clergy in Ethiopia, the Orthodox Church is poised to send messages into the most remote parts of that country to prevent HIV and to fund ministries to treat the infected. The International Orthodox Christian Charities, the humanitarian aid agency of Orthodox
Rose Marie Berger, 7-01-2003
A Jesuit priest in southern India, along with local Jesuit school students, has launched an AIDS-awareness campaign conducted mostly by children orphaned by the disease.
Rose Marie Berger, 5-01-2003
The San Francisco-based Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fight HIV/AIDS in Malawi, Africa.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 9-01-2002
In June, the African Religious Leaders Assembly on Children and HIV/AIDS met in Nairobi at the request of the Hope for African Children Initiative and the World Conference of Religions and Peace.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 5-01-2002
The French agency Doctors Without Borders and the South African AIDS activist group Treatment Action Campaign are smuggling cheaper generic versions of three anti-retroviral AIDS drugs...
Jim Wallis 7-01-2000
U.S. churches can provide a driving moral force on the crisis of AIDS in Africa.
Laura Dely 11-01-1999
Despite the pall that HIV-AIDS casts across Africa, a few bright spots offer some relief.
Laura Dely 11-01-1999
As the rate of HIV-AIDS reaches record highs in Africa, the burden of foreign debt depletes scarce resources for prevention and care
Andrew Schleicher, Molly Marsh 3-01-1999
AIDS in Africa has reached epidemic proportions, and an American clergyman told a gathering in Zimbabwe this winter that he knows one of the main reasons why: male sexual permissiveness.