Following the success of the weekly Lenten reflections published on its website (ajanweb.org) in 2013 and 2014, AJAN is set to repeat the initiative this year… Read more
Headlines
HIV and AIDS in the world’s youngest nation
26 December 2014 – Being at AJAN helps me to reflect on what is happening in my country, South Sudan: HIV and AIDS is a challenge for us, people are dying, and I was not too aware of this before… Read more
Zimbabwe: Farewell to a remarkable project
26 December 2014 – In 2014, we celebrated the Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP), an initiative that reached more than 24,000 young people in 18 years of service… Read more
World AIDS Day: Treatment is good but can be better
1 December 2014 – Life for people with HIV would be much easier if they had clinics within walking distance and if they spent less time in clinics in queues that stretch for hours. These are two chief recommendations that emerged from preliminary results of regional research coordinated by AJAN… Read
Kenya: AHAPPY is “gold” for our young people today
1 November 2014 – More than a year after an AJAN team introduced AHAPPY to the Loreto Convent Girls Secondary in Matunda, Sr Immaculate Shisanya writes about the changes that the HIV prevention workshop brought about… Read more
Kenya: AHAPPY welcomed at Loreto High School
1 November 2014 – What I like about the AJAN AHAPPY program is that although it follows the teachings of the Catholic Church, it is nonetheless relevant for everyone. I am a high-school teacher by profession and have worked very closely with young people for almost 18 years… Read more
Rwanda: The CLC-Ireme Centre
1 November 2014 – The Christian Life Community (CLC) in Kigali is running a centre to welcome and help people living with HIV, building on years of spiritual and pastoral support that its members have been offering… Read more
CAR: A profound experience
1 November 2014 – Jean-Pierre Boubane SJ has just finished a two-year stint as coordinator of an HIV-prevention centre run by the Jesuits on the university campus of Bangui. He thanks the students for their welcome, commitment and support, and urges them to work for peace in their martyred country…
DRC: “You need to teach us how to look after ourselves”
1 November 2014 – “You need to teach us how to look after ourselves. Giving us ideas and skills will do us more good and make us feel more worthy than giving us flour, because then we will realize that we are strong and can do plenty of things for
Training health workers for Ebola
Frontline health workers are struggling to keep pace with the Ebola outbreak. Powering Frontline Health Workers and IntraHealth are organizing four free webinars that aim to provide health workers with clear, reliable, and timely information to protect themselves, to detect the disease, and to respond. Go here to learn more.
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