![CAFOD cakes – specially decorated and sold to raise money for CAFOD [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/images/uk_diocesan_images/nottingham_diocese/cafod_cakes/10785-2-eng-GB/cafod_cakes_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Reducing vulnerability to drought: Cambodian community members work together to improve the water supply to their village [Development Partnership in Action]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/stop_climate_chaos_campaign_images/cambodians_build_canal/232641-2-eng-GB/cambodians_build_canal_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![CAFOD supported communities with seeds, tools and training to help local people move home and reintegrate in Northern Uganda [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/uganda/images/move-home-and-reintegrate/945382-1-eng-GB/move-home-and-reintegrate_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Jade, 9yrs old, marking out 'Our Future' in coral on the beach at Pujada Bay [Simon Rawles]](/var/storage/images/watch-and-listen/our-future/966390-1-eng-GB/our-future_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
HIV and AIDS
![At the CAFOD-funded St Francis Home-Based Care programme in Livingstone, Zambia, volunteers are trained to care for those with HIV [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/africa/zambia/st_francis_home_based_care_programme/4803-2-eng-GB/st_francis_home_based_care_programme_medium.jpg)
All around the developing world, CAFOD is fighting back against HIV and AIDS. Given the scale and urgency of the problem, this is one of CAFOD's four top priority areas of work
HIV and AIDS form one of the biggest threats, not just to health, but to human development, on our planet.
Economies are being crippled as adults are cut down in their prime, plunging families into poverty and emptying workplaces.
Around 95% of people with HIV and AIDS live in developing countries. The epidemic reverses development, as poverty increases while access to education, jobs, and healthcare goes down.
CAFOD works through its partners in three key ways:
- Care: Supporting people and communities living with HIV
- Prevention: Reducing the spread and impact of HIV
- Advocacy: Defending the rights and dignity of people with the virus, and fighting injustices that can lead to infection
In addition, CAFOD considers carefully how HIV and AIDS could impact on any of its programmes, right across its work.
 CAFOD Salford: Walk in the Park The Walk in the Park takes place on April 26 around the beautiful grounds of Heaton Park , Prestwich. Whether you prefer a stroll or a chase, the message is the same - building a future of justice for all |
![Phalla is a field worker for CAFOD partner Maryknoll in Cambodia and a foster parent to eight children [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/cambodia/phalla/982712-1-eng-GB/phalla_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Cambodia: Help starts from love Meet Phalla and her family, whose committment to helping children with no family and no home is helping to pioneer the way for others – with the support of CAFOD partner Maryknoll |
![CAFOD South Wales ran a service for the Cardiff diocese on World AIDS Day to celebrate 20 years of CAFOD's work in HIV [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/news/wad-2008-12-12/world-aids-day-in-cardiff/971532-1-eng-GB/world-aids-day-in-cardiff_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Taking global action for World AIDS Day CAFOD staff and partners took part in a huge number of activities around the world to show leadership on HIV begins at an individual and community level |
Make HIV treatment available for all
Sign up to the new action from the Stop AIDS Campaign. CAFOD is a member of this campaign, which helps people around the world access the medicines they need to stay alive
Raise awareness around World AIDS Day
Email our HIV team to find out more about holding an event around World AIDS Day (December 1 every year) - we can support you in doing this. Plus, order our FREE leaflet "Working Positively", which provides an overview of our response to HIV and AIDS
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Join this campaign from the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance - of which CAFOD is a member. It aims to ensure those working to end HIV follow through on the pledges they have made, and there are loads of ways YOU can help
![Youth volunteers who are peer educators working on HIV prevention in local schools and distributing public information in the streets [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/cambodia/images/youth-volunteers-working-on-hiv-/788954-1-eng-GB/youth-volunteers-working-on-hiv-_0column75_nospace_landscape.jpg)
