Articles sur le SIDA en Afrique

The Association Solidarité, Vie et Santé (ASVS – Association of Solidarity, Life and Health) in Ouagadougou caters mostly to women with HIV who are poor and have been abandoned by their families. The aim of the association is to improve the women’s living conditions by offering medical, psychosocial and educational

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Before the birth of the Uzima program of St Joseph the Worker parish in Kangemi, it was taboo to speak about AIDS in this Nairobi slum. In 2004, Uzima (“life” in Swahili) created a space where people with HIV could come and get support to cope with their situation. The

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The best practice presented by the Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) is a mobile clinic for people with HIV that has led to increased rates of treatment adherence and of healthy children born to HIV-positive mothers. The mobile clinic team goes daily to villages in Bujumbura Rural, the province surrounding the

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The Chikuni Parish Home-Based Care (HBC) program in southern Zambia was awarded for excellence for its new four-phase approach that strives to offer a more individualised and sustainable service to over 1000 people with HIV. Chikuni HBC was set up in 2000 at a time when many people with AIDS

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The Chikuni Parish Home-Based Care (HBC) program in southern Zambia is the winner of the first annual award for excellence in Jesuit AIDS ministry in Africa and Madagascar. The Jesuit Superiors of Africa and Madagascar (JESAM) and by the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) launched the award this year to

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TRIPS extension positive… but not good enough – The decision to give the world’s poorest countries more time to fall in line with an international agreement regulating intellectual property rights has been welcomed as a positive step… but not nearly as positive as it could have been… Read more Kenya:

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The decision to give the world’s poorest countries more time to fall in line with an international agreement regulating intellectual property rights has been welcomed as a positive step… but not as positive as it could have been. In early June, the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Council

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A young boy living in Nyumbani Village in Kenya is delighted at the success of a short film he starred in. Daniel Itumo played the leading role in the 15-minute film, About Ndugu, which was shot in Nyumbani in June 2012. The film was premiered at the Berlinale international film

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The book, Ted Rogers: Jesuit, Social Pioneer and AIDS Activist in Zimbabwe – A Memoir, was launched in the UK on 10 May. Fr Ted is a British Jesuit who spent decades pioneering social change in Zimbabwe. Among his many achievements are the founding of the high-quality School of Social

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Anna Szalma In April 2012, my mentor at the Jesuit Mission Office in Germany called me and asked if I would agree to spend my year of voluntary service at AJAN. At the time, I was a “volunteer in training” at the Jesuit Mission. After a short discernment, I accepted.

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