La storia di ogni centro DREAM attraversa varie fasi. C’è l’inizio, l’inaugurazione, la speranza che rinasce in molti cuori e su molti volti, le forze che ritornano, la voce che comincia a girare, l’affluenza che cresce, il programma che acquista una routine, fatta di cure, di successi terapeutici, di gratitudine, di coinvolgimento perché anche altri vengano raggiunti dalla buona notizia che l’AIDS può essere fermato.
Tutto questo è accaduto anche a Quelimane, nel Mozambico settentrionale. Il centro DREAM è sorto ormai da diversi anni. Quasi 3000 sono i pazienti in cura (un po’ meno dei due terzi dei quali è in terapia antiretrovirale), all’incirca 400 i bambini nati sani dopo che le madri avevano seguito l’apposito trattamento, preventivo della trasmissione verticale del virus dell’HIV...
Acronyme de Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition, DREAM est un programme de soin du SIDA à approche globale appliqué à l’Afrique.
Mis en route en février 2002 par la Communauté de Sant’Egidio, il est présent aujourd’hui au Mozambique, au Malawi, en Tanzanie, au Kenya, en République de Guinée, en Guinée Bissau, au Nigeria, en Angola, en République démocratique du Congo, au 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
Nous vivons aujourd'hui un temps de découragement pour ce qui concerne le SIDA. Beaucoup se demandent: que fait-on? Où va-t-on?
En effet, les dernières expérimentations sur le vaccin ne laissent pas entrevoir des résultats encourageants; aucune innovation particulière ne semble émerger. Au contraire, de nombreux experts du domaine estiment qu'il faut repenser de manière radicale le type d'approche vaccinale pour le virus à VIH.
Du côté des chiffres, le dernier rapport établi par l'ONU SIDA n'est guère plus encourageant. Il est certes question de l'amorce du déclin de la pandémie, mais en réalité, en étudiant les données, on a plutôt l'impression d'observer un état stationnaire, dans lequel l'aplatissement des courbes des graphiques semble résulter d'un équilibre qui s’est déplacé vers le haut (nombre élevé de nouvelles infections, du reste encore supérieur au nombre élevé des décès).
C’est dans ce contexte que nous voulons faire le point sur ce qu'est DREAM aujourd'hui.
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.