{"id":4251,"date":"2015-03-11T06:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T03:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ajan.africa\/what-we-do\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T06:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T03:36:45","slug":"what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What we do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The AJAN vision, of\u00a0<em>empowered individuals, families and communities working towards an HIV- and AIDS-free society and fullness of life<\/em>, is realised by Jesuits and their co-workers who reach out to people with HIV, their families, widows and orphans, and who seek to prevent the spread of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">They do so in the course of their daily work, as they seek to live a faith that does justice. \u201cAIDS affects those we serve, and touches all the fields we are engaged in: parishes, the sectors of health, education, development, social services and others,\u201d says Fr Paterne Momb\u00e9 SJ, AJAN Director. \u201cOne can find a place for it in all our apostolic sectors and include it in all our activities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Services offered include pastoral counselling, home-based care, income-generating activities, and educational, medical and nutritional support. Prevention of HIV thorough value-based education, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and testing services is crucial, not least among young people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In the course of their ministry, Jesuits and their co-workers find that they are also called to defend the dignity and rights of those affected, which are often threatened by stigma, discrimination and by the lack of care, treatment and opportunities that they need to live life to the full.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In all this work, it is considered crucial to listen to people living with HIV and others who are affected, to shape responses according to their needs, and to invite their participation in services offered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The mission of AJAN as a network is to offer Jesuits and their co-workers all the facilitation and support they need for this AIDS ministry: networking, coordination of advocacy initiatives, as well as capacity-building and resource mobilisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AJAN vision, of\u00a0empowered individuals, families and communities working towards an HIV- and AIDS-free society and fullness of life, is realised by Jesuits and their co-workers who reach out to people with HIV, their families, widows and orphans, and who seek to prevent the spread of the pandemic. They do<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-more sd-all-trans\" href=\"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/what-we-do\/#more-4251\">consulte Mais informa\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-do-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}