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       March-April 1999		 Text Only version

AIDS Ministry for a New Millennium

Although the number of new AIDS cases and deaths from AIDS has been dropping in the United States since 1996, Nancy A. Carter reminds readers that the global pandemic of AIDS continues to intensify. The so-called AIDS "drug cocktails" have helped a small percentage of people, but eventually, since the HIV virus has proven its efficiency at adapting to new treatments, the drugs will become ineffective.

Carter explains why people of faith must continue their ministries with people who have AIDS and must start new ones. "Prevention education is extremely important," she writes. "Even today, many people do not know how AIDS is transmitted and the ways in which it can be prevented."

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AIDS Memorial Quilt shown at International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, Canada in 1996.

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Seminar at same conference.

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