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Media briefing: HIV and AIDS

Participants wave signs, banners, and balloons during the AIDS Treatment March at the Toronto International AIDS Conference 2006 [Melissa Engle/EAA]
Participants wave signs, banners, and balloons during the AIDS Treatment March at the Toronto International AIDS Conference 2006 [Melissa Engle/EAA]

All you need to know about HIV and AIDS including why it matters to development work, useful facts and figures, CAFOD's position, and what our partners are working on


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The context

HIV and AIDS are complex issues, presenting many interrelated challenges for CAFOD’s work. Here, we explain a number of these challenges in more detail

Women at the Wii bakery in Kitui. Money from the bakery is used to care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. [Noreen Lockhart]

Facts and figures

Global figures, regional figures, statistics on testing, treatment, funding, orphans and conflict

Filipino campaigners marked White Band Day by rating their Government's performance on the Millennium Development Goals. [GCAP Philippines]

CAFOD’s response

Stance, priorities and ways of working
CAFOD, HIV and the Catholic Church
The Millennium Development Goals and HIV

CAFOD partner International Aid Network (IAN) is using footbal to help refugee children integrate into Serbian society. [Photo:]

What CAFOD’s partners are doing

A brief look at some of the broad range of work CAFOD’s partners undertake in this field. From awareness raising and care in Cambodia, to defending rights in Bolivia, and working with religious leaders in Ethiopia

Ann, 19, (left) had been training as a dressmaker but had to leave before taking her final exams due to financial problems and also the need to take care of her parents who are both HIV positive [CAFOD]

Glossary

HIV and AIDS are highly complex issues, a fact reflected in the terminology and language used. Here are terms to be used and avoided, plus explanations for acronyms

Published on 24/10/2006, last updated on 19/12/2008
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Woman collects water. The Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region [Paul Jeffrey]

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