HIV and AIDS: Media briefing

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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Joyce Sibasa looks after her grandchildren at home in Winterveldt, South Africa [Simon Rawles]

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 of the array of work CAFOD’s partners undertake in this field. From testing in Serbia, to defending rights in Bolivia, and medical and social care in Kenya

Catherine Ogolla, Programme Officer HIV and AIDS

Spokespeople

A list of CAFOD experts able to comment on the wider issues as well as our work in this area

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

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Published on 24/10/2006, last updated on 07/08/2008
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