Global Health

 Today there are 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS around the world. Of this total, 29.4 million live in Africa, 3.2 million of them children.

Experts predict the HIV/AIDS pandemic will explode in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, India and China by the end of the decade. In 2010, these countries are expected to have an infected population of 50 to 75 million.

1 million deaths occur from malaria each year—90% of these are in Africa

About 8 million tuberculosis cases occur each year—3 million in Southeast Asia and 2 million in sub-Saharan Africa.

In the hardest hit African nations, as many as 58% of those living with HIV/AIDS are women.

By the year 2010, there will be an estimated 25 million children left orphan because of HIV/AIDS.

• Letter to House on Cuts in Poverty-Focused International Assistance
  Bishop Howard J. Hubbard and Ken Hackett, February 14, 2011
  
• Letter to US Congress on 2009 Budget
  Bishop William F. Murphy and Bishop Howard J. Hubbard
  March 26, 2009
• Press Release: Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services Welcome Passage of PEPFAR Reauthorization
  July 25, 2008
• Letter to House on PEPFAR
  Bishop Thomas Wenski and Mr. Ken Hackett, July 16, 2008
• Action Alert: Senate Needs to Move PEPFAR Now
  June 27, 2008
• Background on HIV-AIDS PEPFAR
  May 2008
• Letter from Bishops' Conferences to G-8 Leaders
  Cardinal Francis George, June 17, 2008
• Letter to Senate Committee on PEPFAR
  Bishop Thomas Wenski and Mr. Ken Hackett, May 22, 2008
• Action Alert: President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief
  March 31, 2008
• Update on PEPFAR
  March 19, 2008
• Letter to Senate Committee on PEPFAR Reauthorization
  Bishop Thomas Wenski and Mr. Ken Hackett, March 12, 2008
• Letter to House on PEPFAR Reauthorization
  Bishop Thomas Wenski and Mr. Ken Hackett, March 7, 2008
• Background on HIV-AIDS PEPFAR
  February 2008
• Hill Notes on HIV & AIDS
  February 2008
• Letter to House Committee on PEPFAR Reauthorization
  Bishop Thomas Wenski and Mr. Ken Hackett, February 6, 2008
• Action Alert: Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill
  June 19, 2007
• Letter to House Representatives on PEPFAR Funding
  June 18, 2007
• Letter to House Appropriations Committee on PEPFAR
  Bishop Thomas Wenski, June 8, 2007
• HIV/AIDS Hill Note
  February 2007
• Letter to Representatives Regula and Obey on HIV/AIDS Funding
  Bishop Thomas Wenski, June 1, 2006
• Background on Global Health
  February 2006
• Background on Global Health
  Otober 2005
• Background on Global Health
  June 2005
• Background on Global Health
  February 2005
• Haiti Update
  February 2004
• Keep America's Promise to Africa
  September 2003
• Statement on Passage of AIDS Legislation
  Bishop John Ricard, May 16, 2003
• Victory on Global Health & Debt Relief!
  Update, May 16, 2003
• To Senate on H.R. 1298, "The United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tb and Malaria,"
  May 15, 2003
• Testimony on 2004 Foreign Assistance
  USCCB/CRS, April 2, 2003
  (see also USCCB Foreign Aid)
• To Senate Foreign Relations and House International Relations Committees on HIV/AIDS funding
  March 4, 2003
• Global Health
  Backgrounder, February 2003
• Development Assistance (Priority Issue 2003)
  Backgrounder, February 2003
• Report on USCCB/CRS Delegation Visit to Southern Africa
  November 2002
  (See also USCCB Africa)
• Action Alert on Debt Relief & HIV/AIDS
  September 2002
• Congress to Finalize Legislation on HIV/AIDS and Debt Relief
  July 2002
• Global Health Initiative
  Backgrounder, February 2002
• To Rep. Hyde on H.R. 2069
  August 28, 2001
• To Rep. Lantos on H.R. 2069
  August 28, 2001
• Called to Compassion and Responsibility: A Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis
  NCCB, 1989
• The Many Faces of AIDS: A Gospel Response
  A Statment of the Administrative Board, November 1987
• Related Issues & Links