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All you need is love

I am Rodah, I got to know AJAN 10 years ago. I met AJAN at a time when I needed help and when my family and the community, where I was living, had already neglected and rejected me because of my HIV status. I needed a shoulder to cry on.

AJANews 155 – Anniversary issue

Linked for life until the end We’ll be the last to quit the scene The war isn’t over yet

AJAN anniversary: We’ll be the last to quit the scene

“What are you going to Kenya to do? To discuss with people there about the lack of resources to support people living with HIV, like me? Tell them this: if I am alive today, it is because I was lucky to be brought from a distant village to this town,

AJAN anniversary: The war isn’t over yet

The war against AIDS hasn’t been won yet. Much has been done, but there still more to do, and it ought to be done in a better way, possibly the best. This call to sustained action to fight AIDS emerged during an assembly of several days that was held in

AJAN anniversary: Linked for life until the end

A message from the AJAN Director, Fr Elphège Quenum SJ (pictured above, in the middle) On 23rd June 2017, AJAN celebrated its 15th anniversary. It has been 15 years since Jesuits and their co-workers started trying to link together to face the challenges of HIV and AIDS. Bringing together their

AJANews 154 – April 2017

AHAPPY goes from strength to strength AHAPPY: AJAN launches updated training manual Togo: My life is back on track AJAN Lenten reflections

AHAPPY: AJAN launches updated training manual

On 24 March, AJAN launched its updated AHAPPY manual during an event held at the Paulines Communication Centre in Westlands, Nairobi. Fr Elphege Quenum SJ, the Director of AJAN, said that the manual, which is published by Paulines Publications, intends to lead young people to an AIDS-free generation, empowering them

AHAPPY goes from strength to strength

AJAN has taken significant steps ahead in the rollout of its youth development program AHAPPY with the launch of a new manual and a “training of trainers” workshop in Nairobi. AHAPPY is a tailor-made program for Catholic educational institutions that draws on Ignatian values, spirituality and pedagogy to reach out

Togo: My life is back on track

My name is Ama Kidiba. I am 44, HIV-positive and divorced, and I have a family of three children: two girls and a boy. The first two years after I discovered that I was HIV-positive were tumultuous times… the shock, the abandonment by my husband, the insults and the total

AJANews 153 – February 2017

New JESAM President Read the first Lenten reflection of AJAN: Come back to me with all your heart Pope Francis: Treat everyone as a human being Social Media: Great power needs great responsibility Perspectives for 2017: At the start of 2017, AJAN asked Jesuits and co-workers involved in AIDS ministry what they

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