AIDS in Africa 2001

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  November 2001

• South African Victims Face Rapists and H.I.V., New York Times, November 30, 2001.
• United Methodist Church Continues Its Commitment to Fight AIDS in Africa by Brenda Wilkinson, November 29, 2001.
• AIDS and Death Hold No Sting for Fatalistic Men at African Bar, New York Times, November 29, 2001.
• Rare Condoms, Deadly Odds for Truck-Stop Prostitutes, New York Times, November 29, 2001.
• A Lonely Crusade Warning Africans of AIDS, New York Times, November 28, 2001.
• AIDS Crisis Leaves Africa's Oldest Ways at a Loss, New York Times, November 27, 2001.
• A South African Hospital Fights AIDS and Despair, New York Times, November 26, 2001 .
• Bishops Agree to Be More Involved with HIV/AIDS Issues, UMNS, November 8, 2001.

October

• Future Directions in Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa, UMCOR Inasmuch Update, Fall 2001.
• Life Skills for Young Orphans, Christian Science Monitor, October 2, 2001
  African groups are teaching AIDS orphans how to keep families intact.

  August

• All Africa Anglican AIDS Planning Framework, "Our Vision, Our Hope" The First Step, August 2001
• Call to Declare an HIV/AIDS State of Emergency, Anglican News Service, August 22, 2001
• AIDS Challenges Religious Leaders: Opposition to Condoms Is Criticized, Washington Post, August 13, 2001
• Obasanjo: 'Give soldiers condoms', BBC, August 5, 2001

  June

• Youth Caucus Goes Beyond Mandated UN Consensus on HIV/AIDS Issues, United Methodist Women, June 28, 2001
• Kenya: Government Neglects AIDS Orphans, Human Rights Watch, June 25, 2001
• Special U.N. Session on AIDS, June 25-27
• Dying Alone, Christianity Today, July 9, 2001 (posted June 15)
  Baptist women seek out and care for ashamed, abandoned AIDS patients.
• Africa Mourns AIDS Boy; President Shuns Funeral, Reuters, June 9, 2001
  Mbeki and senior ministers shunned the funeral at which government policy on AIDS came under strong attack from the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church in southern Africa, Mvume Dandala.
• Hundreds Gather for Nkosi's Funeral, ITN, June 6, 2001
• Zimbabwe Doctors Flee as AIDS Crisis Widens, New York Times, June 3, 2001
• South Africa's Small Warrior Against AIDS Dies Quietly, New York Times, June 2, 2001

  May

• Powell, in South Africa, Finesses the AIDS Issue New York Times, May 25, 2001
• AIDS puts extra burden on poor, Christian Science Monitor, May 25, 2001
  With AIDS deaths placing an enormous financial burden on families, South Africans are increasingly embracing burial practices like cremation and cardboard coffins that violate deeply held cultural beliefs.
• Mcgreed Refuses to Help Raped Employee, Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), May 24, 2001
  American fast food giant McDonald's has been dubbed "McGreed" in Mpumalanga after refusing to supply anti-Aids drugs to a staff member who was raped after working a late shift.
• AIDS Workshops Focus on Women by Mulegwa Zihindula, GBGM, May 17, 2001
  Domestic violence spreads AIDS in East Africa
• (Under) Funding=Death, Policy Group Tells Bush, GBGM, May 14, 2001
• In the Fight Against Aids, Widows Reject Forced Remarriage, IRIN, May 12, 2001
• White House Announcement on Global Aids Funding Equals Death Sentence for Millions of Africans, Africa Action, May 11, 2001

  April 2001

• Religious Leaders Must Provide AIDS Education in Africa by Thomas Abraham, GBGM, April 30, 2001
• Church Must Actively Fight AIDS in Africa, Speakers Say, UMNS, April 30, 2001
• Abuja Ready for African Aids Summit, Panafrican News Agency (Dakar), April 23, 2001
• Kenya Readies Aids Drugs Law, BBC, April 22, 2001
• Experts Say 30 Million Africans Will Die of Aids in 10 Years, Panafrican News Agency (Dakar), April 20, 2001
• Despite Legal Victory, South Africa Hesitates on AIDS Drugs, New York Times, April 21, 2001
• Church Leaders Call for HIV/Aids Awareness, UN Integrated Regional Information Network (Nairobi), April 18, 2001
  In an Easter address, the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Abune Paulos, said church-goers should heighten their awareness about the disease, and help stop its spread.
• Church Project to Help God's Babies, Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), April 11, 2001

  March 2001

• WHO, AIDS Body Releases Swaziland's HIV Statistics, Panafrican News Agency (Dakar), March 19, 2001
• NGO Boss Blames Men For Violence Against Women, Vanguard Daily (Lagos), March 15, 2001
• Religious Leader Undergoes Voluntary Aids Test, Panafrican News Agency (Dakar), March 15, 2001
• Maker Yielding Patent in Africa for AIDS Drug New York Times, March 15, 2001
• AIDS Drug Battle Deepens in Africa, New York Times, March 8, 2001
• Countries With Smaller Gender Gaps Have Less Poverty, Faster Growth, World Bank, March 7, 2001
• Slave Trade By Another Name, Newswatch (Lagos), March 5, 2001
  Trafficking in Nigerian women across the borders is giving the federal government great concern.
• Zambia Has One Of The Highest Maternal Death Rates In The World, Post of Zambia (Lusaka), March 5, 2001
• DRC Has Over 800,000 Aids Orphans, Panafrican News Agency (Dakar), March 1, 2001

  February 2001

• A Generation of Hope: Orphans of the Zimbabwe Crisis, GBGM
  Read background and see the online video.
• In India and Africa, Women's Low Status Worsens Their Risk of AIDS, New York Times, February 26, 2001

  January 2001

• Upsurge of AIDS in Zimbabwe Prisons, PANA, January 30, 2001
• Church-Run Institution Provides For Aids Orphans, ACIS, January 29, 2001
• Church Leaders Discuss How To Contain AIDS Crisis, ACIS, January 22, 2001
  The All Africa Conference of Churches AACC in collaboration with other partners including the World Council of Churches WCC last week facilitated a three-day consultation of church leaders on the approach to address the HIV/AIDS crisis.
• Zambia Axes Safe Sex Ads, BBC, January 11, 2001
  The move follows fierce criticism from churches who complained the campaign was encouraging promiscuity.
• TV Program Will Show Two Cities' Joint Efforts Against AIDS, UMNS, January 4, 2001
  A television show airing in February will put a face on people living with AIDS and examine how two cities -- one in South Africa and the other in New York -- have forged a bond to meet the epidemic.

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