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HIV/AIDS Timeline
2000
This year's AIDS News from the New York Times 
The AIDS crisis in Africa continues to grow . The UN Security Council discusses HIV/AIDS for the first time.
Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year-old boy living with AIDS in Melville, Johannesburg, South Africa, speaks live on television to the 13th International AIDS conference in Durban.
November. White House Summit The Clinton Administration and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) focuses on the role religious leaders could play in the fight against AIDS. To back-to-back conferences are held: "A Consensus From Conscience: Revealing the Role of Faith in Response to AIDS" and "Animating Theology: Turning Faith Into Action in Response to AIDS." Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist leaders attended the summit, including two United Methodist bishops: Zimbabwe's Bishop Christopher Jokomo and Bishop Felton May of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
December 1. World AIDS Day Theme: "AIDS: Men Make a Difference"
December 1. A million Africans are newly infected with HIV this year. Dr. Peter Piot of UNAIDS calls for church involvement.
Ecumenical
December 1. St. Mark's United Methodist Church in the Harlem and St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Soweto participate in simulcast, fed to 30 African countries by African television It is produced by The Balm in Gilead, a U.S. organization dedicated to empowering churches in the struggle against the devastation of HIV/AIDS in the black community.
United Methodist
Januuary 17-21. A consultation in Kadoma, co-sponsored by GBGM and the Zimbabwe United Methodist Annual Conference, Zimbabwe focuses on education, awareness and prevention training on HIV/AIDS. The event is attended by 136 people. More....
April. GBGM provides self-powered radios to Africa. These are sent first to Mozambique, which has suffered from devastating floods. Oce the flood emergency phase has passed the radios can be used for other purposes, such as providing accurate information about HIV/AIDS prevention.
August 20-25. An HIV/AIDS Conference is held for United Methodist Youth in Zimbabwe. More than eighty young adults from Zimbabwe and neighboring regions gather at Chinhoyl Technical Teacher's College in Zimbabwe for a conference on AIDS, with the theme of "HIV/AIDS: Youth's Challenge in the New Millennium."
October. The CDC gives GBGM a $10,000 grant which will be used to produce three new HIV/AIDS Focus Papers highlighting programs found in African American, Hispanic American and Native American congregations.
December. Computerized AIDS Ministries (CAM), now an e-mail groupm continues to touch peoples lives. Richard B. Corey talks about wife Cathie's death from AIDS-related causes on November 19, 2000 and his faith journey.
This timeline has been prepared by Nancy A. Carter from GBGM resources, her personal archives, the New York Times, the CDC, UNAIDS and other sources. Please send additions and corrections to her at ncarter@gbgm-umc.org.
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