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‘I was sick and you took care of me’ |
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Written by Dr. Moira McQueen
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 In 1995, Pope John Paul II wrote in an apostolic exhortation, Ecclesia in Africa: “The battle against AIDS ought to be everyone’s battle. . . . I too ask pastoral workers to bring to their brothers and sisters affected by AIDS all possible material, moral and spiritual comfort. I urgently ask the world’s scientists and political leaders, moved by the love and respect due to every human person, to use every means available in order to put an end to this scourge.”
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Following Christ’s example of compassion |
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Written by The Catholic Register
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 Editor’s note: Fr. Bob Vitillo works for Caritas Internationalis in Geneva, where he is the special advisor for HIV and AIDS and often represents the Vatican at international gatherings. In this Catholic Register interview, Fr. Vitillo explores the Catholic Church’s global response to the crisis.
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A house of compassion in Toronto’s heart |
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Written by Sara Loftson
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 Bosco Yan peacefully doses off on his living room couch while watching television mid-afternoon. This cat nap is very different than the two-month coma he experienced in the earlier stages of his disease. His mother planned a funeral service for him because she didn’t expect him to live.
“I’ve come a long way, a long, long, way,” said Yan, 46.
Over the span of 20 years the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd have opened the doors of Barrett House to hundreds of people like Yan both living with and dying of HIV and AIDS. It was the first residential care facility in Toronto exclusively devoted to people with the disease.
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Reaching from Toronto to Kenya |
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Written by Sara Loftson
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 About two dozen people living with HIV/AIDS meet daily to bead necklaces, earrings and sew sweaters in Embul-bul, a small slum village 30 km from the city centre of Nairobi, Kenya.
“It’s a community of very poor people who are trying to survive day by day,” said Fr. Fabian Hevi, a missionary priest with the Society of African Missions originally from Ghana. He developed the support program so people with HIV can pray together and talk about common experiences and produce saleable goods.
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‘Extreme hurdles’ hold up drug shipments |
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Written by Domenic D. Nicassio
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 Two years after the federal government launched the Access to Medicines Regime to fast-track export of generic AIDS drugs to Africa, not a single pill has been exported under the new rules.
Bill C-9, named the Jean Chretien Pledge to Africa Act, was passed with unanimous consent in May 2004. The act’s purpose was “to facilitate access to pharmaceutical products to address health problems afflicting many developing and least-developed countries, especially those resulting from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other epidemics.”
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