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AJAN and Paulines publish new book

AIDS, 30 Years Down the Line – Faith-based Reflections about the Epidemic in Africa, the latest book to be co-published by the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) and Paulines Publications Africa, is out. A glimpse at the contents of the book published in early January 2013 recalls the African saying:

AJANews 114 – December 2012

For a Christmas that augurs a great future and hope – a message from Fr Paterne Mombe SJ, AJAN Coordinator. As I write my Christmas message, my thoughts go to some children I visited a year ago in an orphanage set up by the Jesuits and a religious congregation in

For a Christmas that augurs a great future and hope

As I write my Christmas message, my thoughts go out to some children I visited a year ago, in an orphanage set up by the Jesuits and a religious congregation in Fonte Boa, Mozambique. Some eight to ten children live there with a foster mother and assistant. What they have

Ireland: Jesuit recognised for AIDS work in Africa

Fr Michael J. Kelly SJ, a well-known researcher, speaker and writer on AIDS in Africa, recently received another award in his native country Ireland. At a ceremony in Dublin held in November 2012, Fr Kelly was one of the recipients of the first presentation of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award

Zambia: Home care programme invests in capacity building of people with HIV

Following a report in the October issue of AJANews featuring the sustainable agriculture project of the home-based care (HBC) programme of the Jesuit parish in Chikuni, southern Zambia, we introduce you to Gregory Hazele (pictured above), an HBC team leader in Chikuni and one of the team’s agricultural extension officers.

Kenya: Parish campaign promotes zero mother-to-child transmission

Around 460 people did an HIV test thanks to a door-to-door campaign organised by the Jesuit parish in a poor Nairobi suburb with the aim of promoting zero mother-to-child transmission. Uzima, a programme of St Joseph the Worker Parish that tackles the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS in Kangemi, organised the

POPE BENEDICT: APPEAL FOR WORLD AIDS DAY

“World AIDS Day, a United Nations initiative intended to draw attention to a disease that has caused millions of deaths and tragic human suffering, will fall on 1 December. HIV/AIDS particularly affects the poorest regions of the world, where there is very limited access to effective medicines. My thoughts turn

WORLD AIDS DAY 2012: Don’t forget people struggling to deal with AIDS

Don’t forget people struggling to deal with AIDS and make the most of community-based efforts to support them and to move towards self-reliance. This is the message of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) to international agencies, donors and African governments as the world marks World AIDS Day by reiterating

AJANews 112 – October 2012

In this issue of AJANews, we bring you news about a successful joint initiative that saw the Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP) in Zimbabwe sharing its expertise in youth development with Chikuni parish in rural Zambia. From Rwanda, a Jesuit shares his moving testimony of accompanying people with HIV. And we

SOWING SEEDS OF HOPE

Fifty-three-year-old Elizabeth Shankwaya lives with her six children in Chikuni in Zambia’s Southern Province. After her husband died, the bed she had shared with him and the metal roof of their home were removed, as per Tonga tradition. Nine years later, in 2007, Elizabeth was diagnosed with HIV. Hers is

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