- 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
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Some Statistics
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 year90% of these are in Africa
About 8 million tuberculosis cases occur each year3 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.
(See USCCB Global Health Backgrounder, 2003) |
Millions of children throughout the world are left orphan and/or vulnerable as a result of the impact of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases on families and communities.
A mother and her baby wait long hours
to visit a clinician at a rural
hospital in Zambia.
A mother sits next to her ill daughter in a rural Zambian village. She describes her daughter's sickness as the same that killed her husband-"the long illness"-or AIDS.
In villages devastated by HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, women work intensively to hold their communities together with few resources. On the left, a Zambian grandmother cares for her eight grandchildren after losing all of her children to AIDS. On the right, a woman describes providing home-based care for the many members of her community too sick to leave their homes.
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