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AHAPPY

The AJAN HIV&AIDS Prevention Programme for Youth (AHAPPY) is a unique education package created by AJAN for Jesuit schools and other educational institutions in Africa. Building on Gospel values and on the long and respected pedagogical tradition of the Jesuits, AHAPPY aims first of all at integral development, to equip

HIV/AIDS: A Social Justice Perspective

2010 Fr Michael J. Kelly SJ Renowned AIDS expert Michael Kelly SJ bases his latest book on the premise that AIDS is a justice issue and a comprehensive response to the pandemic must address its fundamental drivers: socio-economic inequalities; discriminatory gender norms, disparities and power structures; stigma and discrimination; and

AIDS, Ancestors and Salvation

2009 Fr Peter Knox SJ This book is the fruit of the doctoral thesis of Fr Peter Knox SJ, for which he was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Medal in Canada. Fr Peter explores links between AIDS, the Catholic Church and the cult of the ancestors, a significant South African

AIDS and the Church in Africa

Fr Michael Czerny SJ, editor The second edition (first edition 2005) of a compilation of the contributions made at a two-day workshop of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) in October 2003 in Dakar, on the theme: To Shepherd the Church, the Family of God in Africa,

Education: For an Africa without AIDS

Fr Michael J. Kelly SJ This book shows how education is an effective social vaccine that really works against HIV and AIDS. It is a sustained argument for education to be strengthened: first, to understand what education is called to be like in response to the pandemic; second, to monitor

Rays of Hope: Managing HIV&AIDS in Africa

2008 Paterne-Auxence Mombé SJ The second edition of Rays of Hope (first edition 2004) provides useful information about HIV and AIDS, their related diseases and symptoms and how to treat them medically and with nutrition, focusing on the means accessible to and affordable for Africans.

Suffering, Belief, Hope: The Wisdom of Job for an AIDS-Stricken Africa

Ghislain Tshikendwa SJ First published in French in 2005, this biblical interpretation explains the Book of Job in the African context of HIV and AIDS. It begins with the anthropology of sickness, suffering and death in Africa, and concludes with a theology and spirituality of life.

Linked for Life

Michael Czerny SJ and Danielle Vella, editors Linked for Life tells the story of how Jesuits are living out their commitment to fight the pandemic, tracing the emergence of AIDS ministries in the already well-established apostolates of the Society: parishes; healthcare; education; development; pastoral and spiritual accompaniment; formation; and communications

AIDS in Africa: Theological Reflections

2007 Bénézet Bujo SJ and Michael Czerny SJ, editors The Catholic Church, from the beginning of AIDS in Africa, has been active in alleviation and treatment, in prevention, consolation and spreading hope. As Christians, to interpret the AIDS reality requires good theology: to consider this complex issue seriously in the

Madagascar

In Madagascar, a wide-ranging HIV prevention and AIDS care project, Christian action, the battle against AIDS, is run by the Jesuit Province in the rural missionary districts that it is responsible for. The project, directed by Fr Jean-Simon Ratsimbazafy SJ, offers HIV prevention, access to testing and medical care in

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