The Chikuni home-based care (HBC) programme in southeast Zambia has been running since 2000, part of a Jesuit parish that serves 25,000 people living in 180 villages scattered in rural areas. In 2011, Chikuni HBC had more than 1,400 clients on ART. Chikuni Mission Hospital and the HBC team worked
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MATERO PARISH
Since starting up in 1997, the home-based care programme run by St Mary’s Parish in Matero, outskirts of Lusaka, has tended to the needs of people with HIV, TB and AIDS, as well as orphans. There are some 60 caregivers, who identify people with HIV in need of support and
AJAN LENTEN REFLECTIONS
7 March 2013 – The African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) is publishing weekly Lenten reflections, Journeying together towards Life to the full. Click here to read more…
Zimbabwe: Touching souls, healing lives
Time Baluwa, Programmes Coordinator, Jesuit AIDS Project, Zimbabwe “The workshop has made me come to terms with myself. I realised I had issues with the death of my mother and blamed God and my relatives for it. I know now that it’s me who has to change and be well
Why AJAN?
Kevin Kelly, a novice in the Jesuit Province of English Canada, explains why he welcomes the opportunity to do his “Long Experiment” at AJAN. Before entering the Society of Jesus, I studied physiology and virology and then worked for 12 years at Merck & Co, one of the largest companies
30 years of conversion
How has the Catholic Church responded to HIV in the 30 years since the discovery of HIV? This was the question for a three-day conference, held at St Joseph’s Theological Institute, Cedara, South Africa, 20-22 January 2013, and organized in collaboration with the AIDS Office of the Southern African Catholic
Journeying together towards Life to the full
Reflections for Lent from the African Jesuit AIDS Network The African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) will be publishing weekly Lenten reflections on its website, ajanweb.org. This series of reflections invites you to take an in-depth look within yourself and the reality of the world around you, to see how you
AJANews 115 – January 2013
Journeying together towards Life to the full – AJAN will be publishing weekly Lenten reflections on this website. Read more AJAN e-learning survey – AJAN is looking to assess the need for a regional distance-learning programme on HIV/AIDS. We are asking all Jesuits, collaborators and others currently working in this
Gregory Hazele
Gregory Hazele is a team leader of the home-based care programme of Chikuni Parish in rural Zambia and one of the programme’s agricultural extension officers. Gregory was interviewed by Darrin Zammit Lupi. From observation and experience within the parish, and I personally am one of the people who are living
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