Machinjiri, 20 Luglio 2010 ore 15, sala parrocchiale, appuntamento per la preghiera ed ntro di festa, con una trentina di anziani che il Movimento “I Dream” di Blantyre va abitualmente a visitare nelle case.
La recente visita del Presidente della Comunità e il I° Convegno africano sugli anziani promosso dalla Comunità di Sant’Egidio sono stati un incoraggiamento all’amore e alla responsabilità e oggi si moltiplicano gli anziani che fanno parte di questa larga famiglia...
DREAM, ni neno la kiingereza linalotumika kama kifupi cha Uwezo wa Matumizi ya Dawa Dhidi ya Ukimwi na Utapiamlo (Drug Resource Enhancement against Aids and Malnutrition). Huu ni mpango ulioanzishwa Februari 2002 na Jumuiya ya Sant’Egidio, ambayo asma yake ni kutibu ukimwi kwa kuchukulia nyanja zake zote kwa kina na mapana ndani ya bara la Afrika. Utaratibu huu upo Msumbiji, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Jamhuri ya Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria, Angola, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo na Cameroun...
La pandemia provoca 50.000 morti all'anno in Sud Africa.
Per molto tempo le autorità hanno negato questo dramma o proposto di curarlo con l'aglio.
I successi del programma DREAM.
di Paola Germano e Giovanni Guidotti
There is an atmosphere of dejection regarding AIDS. Many people are asking themselves, ‘What should we do? Where do we go from here?’
The latest vaccine experiments do not give grounds for hope of encouraging results, nothing new of note seems to emerge. On the contrary, many experts in the field believe that a radical re-think on the type of approach to the vaccine for the HIV virus is necessary.
The statistics contained in the latest UNAIDS report are not very encouraging either. Yes, they speak of the beginning of a decline in the pandemic but in reality, looking at the graphs of the data, they seem to reflect a stationary situation.
This is the context in which we would like to assess what the project DREAM is today.
FAITH IN ACTION
Interfaith Health-Care Reform
By Katherine Marshall
Hospital waiting rooms are glum places pretty much everywhere. People, sick or injured, wait and wait and wait. Nowhere are the huge gaps between rich and poor so graphically in evidence. That's the essence of the American health reform challenge, however deeply it gets submerged in the passionate debates now raging: to bridge those gaps so that the misery of illness is not compounded by inability to pay.
The issues are not just American, they are global. And they have many faith dimensions.
The waiting room at the Sihanouk Hospital of Hope in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is full of sick people. It's hot and they wait outside. Faces are resigned, many show obvious pain, and worried relatives cluster nearby. But the hospital's name is apt: Hope, because this is a well-run facility, bustling with doctors from many countries. And a central principle is that care is free of charge, and available to anyone. Cambodian people sell their last bullock and travel for days to get here. They call it the hospital of God or the hospital of angels.
The hospital's story is unique, but there are many stories rather like it: a facility built because of a deep and faith-inspired determination to care for people. The Sihanouk Hospital came about through an alliance among a Jewish journalist and stubborn activist; a remarkable Japanese Shinto leader and philanthropist; an American Christian nongovernmental organization; and a Buddhist nation.