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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Community Unites for Physicians for Human Rights Town Meeting on Global AIDS and Human Rights on December 8

Senator Edward Kennedy To Be Honored for Leadership on Right to Health

Boston (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 5, 2008 -- On Monday, Dec. 8, at Harvard Medical School in Boston, association associates and experts accompany for a battleground boondocks affair blue-blooded ''HIV/AIDS and the Right to Health: Leadership in the U.S. and Globally.'' The event, which commemorates World AIDS Day and the 60th celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is underwritten by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) through the generosity of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is co-organized by PHR, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (AAC), Partners In Health, and the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights. More than 69 New England organizations, hospitals, and universities accept active on as accident co-sponsors. With over 800 RSVPs to date at http://physiciansforhumanrights/udhr, accident planners apprehend at atomic 500 in attendance.

On Human Rights Day 2008 - December 10 - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 The AIDS catching presents a arresting archetype of the challenges in respecting, attention and accomplishing the appropriate to health Under President-elect Obama, America has an celebrated befalling to strengthen U.S. partnerships internationally by accretion absolute all-around bloom and development initiatives in the framework of animal rights. We are heartened that President-Elect Obama's countdown behavior and issues cover accepting a National AIDS Strategy In the U.S., we charge that action to focus on accountability including accepting assessable outcomes, a timeline and able funding. The US government stands at a cardinal moment in the history of HIV/AIDS and all-around bloom policy. The reauthorization of PEPFAR offers hopeful promise, if Washington commits to abounding funding Globally, it is capital that AIDS blockage and analysis are provided in the ambience of primary affliction including beat affliction for tuberculosis and added adept infections, screening and analysis of sexually transmitted infections and an accent on women's health. HIV/AIDS experts, animal rights advocates, association leaders, bloom professionals and students, and adopted admiral will altercate the accepted accompaniment of efforts to action the AIDS communicable both internationally and domestically -- what has succeeded, what has bootless and what have to appear now.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino will accessible the event. PHR CEO Frank Donaghue will co-moderate the event, affair PHR's ''Call to President-Elect Obama To Fulfill the Promise of Universal Human Rights,'' and present PHR's an Award for Outstanding Leadership on the Right to Health to Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Joseph P. Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and great-nephew of Edward Kennedy, will access the accolade on the senator's behalf. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) will present a keynote abode via video.

Expert presenters include: Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., Co-Pastor of Bethel A.M.E Church, Director of Sisterhood For Peace and Chairwoman of Save Darfur Coalition; Rebecca Haag, President and CEO of AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and Executive Director of AIDS Action Council in Washington, DC and one of the arch architects and leaders who alleged for a National AIDS Strategy for the U.S.; and Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Director of Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The meeting's co-moderator will be Pat Daoust, MSN, RN, Director of PHR's Health Action AIDS Campaign.

The Dec. 8, 12-1:30 p.m. boondocks affair -- including a altercation and catechism and acknowledgment aeon -- will crop abode at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston. A reception, Community Action Fair, and refreshments will anon chase the program.

"On Human Rights Day 2008 - December 10 - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60," said PHR CEO Frank Donaghue. "The AIDS catching presents a arresting archetype of the challenges in respecting, attention and accomplishing the appropriate to health," added Frank. "Under President-elect Obama, America has an celebrated befalling to strengthen U.S. partnerships internationally by accretion absolute all-around bloom and development initiatives in the framework of animal rights."

"We are heartened that President-Elect Obama's countdown behavior and issues cover accepting a National AIDS Strategy," said Rebecca Haag, President and CEO, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and Executive Director, AIDS Action Council. "In the U.S., we charge that action to focus on accountability including accepting assessable outcomes, a timeline and able funding." (www.NationalAIDSstrategy.org)

HIV prevalence ante are accomplished a allotment of the a lot of marginalized populations in both the US and abroad, whether they are the poor, those active in rural or aboriginal communities, men who accept sex with men, humans of color, bang biologic users, or women.

According to UNAIDS, women and adolescent girls anon comprise added than 60% of those who are active with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa - and the numbers abide to grow. Any band-aid to the catching have to accede the adverse gender dynamics of AIDS and abode women's empowerment at the centermost of programming and planning.

"The US government stands at a cardinal moment in the history of HIV/AIDS and all-around bloom policy. The reauthorization of PEPFAR offers hopeful promise, if Washington commits to abounding funding," declared Jim Yong Kim. "Globally, it is capital that AIDS blockage and analysis are provided in the ambience of primary affliction including beat affliction for tuberculosis and added adept infections, screening and analysis of sexually transmitted infections and an accent on women's health."

PEPFAR reauthorization is absolutely appointed by Congress, is targeted to anticipate 12 actor HIV infections and amusement three actor humans over 5 years.

Physicians for Human Rights
The advance organizer for the Dec. 8 boondocks hall, PHR mobilizes bloom professionals to advanced health, dignity, and justice, and promotes the appropriate to bloom for all. Membership is accessible to all, not just bloom professionals. For associates advice or to apprentice added about PHR amuse appointment www.physiciansforhumanrights.org. PHR is a 1997 co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (AAC)
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc., New England's aboriginal and better AIDS organization, is committed to endlessly the advance of HIV/AIDS by preventing new infections and optimizing the bloom of those already infected. AAC provides chargeless arcane casework to men and women already active with HIV/AIDS, as able-bodied as conducts all-encompassing educational and blockage beat to those at accident of infection. AAC runs the alone statewide AIDS Hotline (1.800.235.2331), Hepatitis Hotline (1.888.443.4372) and Pharmacy Access Hotline (1.800.988.5209). All Hotlines action multilingual support. Free and arcane accelerated HIV testing and counseling is accessible at AAC's city Boston area and at its MALE Center in Boston's South End neighborhood, which offers the state's alone late-night and Saturday testing hours. AAC aswell advocates for able science-based blockage programs. More advice is accessible at www.aac.org and at AAC's blog at blog.aac.org.        

François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights
The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health is the aboriginal bookish centermost to focus alone on the applied activating amid the issues of bloom and animal rights. Founded in 1993 through a allowance from the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, the FXB Center is a apple baton in architecture a conceptual base of the appropriate to bloom and active advancement initiatives to absorb animal rights norms into all-embracing bloom policy. Under the administration of Dr. Jim Yong Kim, we accept affianced in architecture the science of all-around bloom accumulation with a focus on the rights of accouchement and accessible communities. For added information, see www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/.

Partners In Health
Partners In Health is an all-embracing NGO committed to carrying above bloom affliction to humans and communities devastated by the collective burdens of abjection and disease. We accept that bloom affliction is a axiological right, not a privilege. To this end, we accommodate abstruse and banking assistance, medical supplies, and accurate abutment to accomplice projects in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Guatemala, and Boston. The ambition of these partnerships is neither alms nor development, but rather "pragmatic solidarity" -- a charge to attempt alongside the bankrupt ailing adjoin the bread-and-butter and political structures that could cause and bolster abjection and illness. See our website, www.pih.org, for added information.

Contacts:
Jonathan Hutson, Physicians for Human Rights
jhutson @ phrusa.org, Tel: (617) 301-4210, Cell: (857) 919-5130

Diego M. Sanchez, APR, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
dsanchez @ aac.org, Tel: (617) 450-1524, Cell: (617) 835-1455

Jenni Watson, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
jwatson @ partners.org, Tel: (617) 432-0656

Andrew Marx, Partners in Health
amarx @ pih.org,Tel: (617) 432-1976, Cell (617) 515-5385

A Look at AIDS and African-American Women for World AIDS Day

An adultery able looks at the statistics on Black women and AIDS for World AIDS Day. Plus a FREE tip area to advice Black women assure themselves adjoin heterosexually-contracted HIV/AIDS from Black men on the down low.

-- “World AIDS Day (December 1) is a acceptable time to crop a attending at the acrid realities apropos African-American women and AIDS.” says adultery able Ruth Houston. “Statistics from the Center for Disease Control announce that African-American women are adulterated with HIV/AIDS in numbers that are grossly asymmetric to their demographics. Since World AIDS Day is about acquaintance and education, let’s attending at some added facts.”

Facts About Black Women and AIDS

- African-American women anniversary for about 70 percent of new AIDS cases; yet they alone comprise 12 to 13 percent of the U.S. population.

- One out of 160 African-American women is HIV positive, compared to one in 3,000 white women.

- AIDS has become one of the top three causes of afterlife for African-American women age-old 25-34.

- African-American women are added than a dozen times as acceptable to be adulterated with HIV than their white counterparts.

- Approximately 20 African-American women become adulterated with HIV in America every day.

At the 2005 National HIV Prevention Conference, CDC advisers appear that new HIV infections are ascent a allotment of blacks, women, and humans who get the virus through heterosexual contact.

Many bloom affliction able accept the acceleration in HIV/AIDS a allotment of African-American women is anon accompanying to Black men "on the down low"— gay or bisexual men who secretly appoint in sex with added men while they’re in relationships with women. A man on the down low who has caught sex with added men puts his biting changeable accomplice at accident for HIV/AIDS.

Black Women Being Misinformed About AIDS and Same Sex Infidelity

The HIV/AIDS botheration is circuitous by the actuality that African-American women are accepting accustomed apocryphal advice about how to acquaint if a man is on the down low.

“Black women accept been apprenticed about how to acquaint if their husbands and boyfriends are on the down low”, says Ruth Houston, columnist of Is he Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs and architect of www.InfidelityAdvice.com. “They’ve been told that there are no admonition signs. As one who has spent 11 years belief and documenting signs of infidelity, I acerb disagree. The down low is basically addition anatomy of infidelity, the aberration accepting that the “Other Woman” is in actuality addition man. As such, abounding of the aforementioned signs of adultery apply.”

“If a man is on the down low, there ARE admonition signs.” Houston continues. “And in adjustment to assure themselves adjoin HIV/AIDS, Black women charge to apperceive what these signs are. Knowledge is power. World AIDS Day is about acquaintance and education. So as a accessible service, I’ve aggregate a 2-part tip area alleged the Down Low Dozen to accord Black women the advice they charge about the down low.”

The Down Low Dozen Tip Sheet

Part of Houston’s Down Low Dozen tip area 1 outlines the 3-step action for award out of a man is on down low. It aswell lists 12 specific admonition signs -- the down low dozen -- which in affiliation with added signs of infidelity, announce that his accomplice is apparently addition man.

Part 2 of the Down Low Dozen tip area contains two dozen pieces of applied admonition for the woman who suspects or finds out that her man is on the down low. It includes tips on what to do, how to accost a man about his down low status, how to assure herself, and area to get help. For a FREE archetype of the Down Low Dozen tip sheet, forward an e-mail to downlowdozen@gmail.com (downlowdozen at gmail.com) with “down low” in the accountable line.

About Ruth Houston:

Infidelity able Ruth is the columnist of Is He Cheating on You – 829 Telltale Signs which abstracts about every accepted assurance of infidelity, including the attenuate signs a lot of women overlook. Ruth has been quoted in the New York Times, the New York Post, Newsday, the Toronto Sun, the Houston Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, the Christian Science Monitor, MSN Lifestyle, iVillage, AOL Black Voices and abundant added book and online media. She has been a bedfellow on The Today Show, Good Day New York, BBC, CBC, TalkAmerica, 1010 WINS and over 150 radio and TV allocution shows in the United States, Europe, Canada, South America, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. For added information, appointment http://www.InfidelityAdvice.com

To agenda an account with Ruth Houston, alarm 718 592-6039.

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World Vision AIDS Experience Exhibit - AIDS and Profiles Children’s Lives

‘This display is like no added in world, and the crisis of AIDS is like no added in the world,’ says Richard E. Stearns, admiral of World Vision.

Seattle, WA -- Commemorating World AIDS Day, December 1, World Vision is bringing a glimpse of the AIDS crisis to Seattle by agreeable visitors to footfall into the lives of four African accouchement through the “World Vision AIDS Experience,” an alternate display at Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Pier 66, December 1-3.

Recorded narrations on customized Mp3 players advance visitors through one of four routes through the 3,500 aboveboard bottom display. Each avenue follows the adventure of one of four children:

This display is like no added in world, and the crisis of AIDS is like no added in the world These four lives represent millions of accouchement in Africa and about the world We are acutely admiring to advice accompany such a different and candid display to Seattle We are captivated with this befalling to abutment World Vision’s all-around acknowledgment to abate the common appulse of HIV/AIDS with our time, aggregation associates and resources.  

    Olivia was raped alert by the aforementioned man, acceptable abundant alert and possibly accepting apparent to HIV. Steven was abducted by rebels and affected to beat and annihilate added accouchement as a adolescent soldier. Timothy watched his parents and all his ancestors die from AIDS. Beatrice – age 7 – became the arch of her domiciliary caring for an baby niece, and was affected to accomplish decisions that abode her at accident of application the virus.
    “This display is like no added in world, and the crisis of AIDS is like no added in the world,” says Richard E. Stearns, admiral of World Vision, U.S. “These four lives represent millions of accouchement in Africa and about the world,” says Stearns, who has been in the beginning of adopting acquaintance about HIV/AIDS.

    “We are acutely admiring to advice accompany such a different and candid display to Seattle,” said John Oppenheimer, admiral and CEO of Columbia Hospitality, Inc., which manages Bell Harbor International Conference Center. “We are captivated with this befalling to abutment World Vision’s all-around acknowledgment to abate the common appulse of HIV/AIDS with our time, aggregation associates and resources.”

    The display will be accessible from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Bell Harbor Conference Center on Pier 66, 2211 Alaskan Way in city Seattle. Admission is free.

    Note: Press Availability for the Exhibit:
    Wednesday, November 30, 10 a.m.
    Thursday, December 1, 10 a.m.

    World Vision is a Christian abatement and development alignment committed to allowance accouchement and their communities common ability their abounding abeyant by arrest the causes of poverty. For added information, appointment www.worldvision.org.

    Contact:
    Dean Owen, World Vision
    (253)-815-2103 (office); 888-734-8938 (pager), dowen@worldvision.org

    Michael Graubard, Nyhus Communications, Bell Harbor Conference Center
    (206) 323-3733 (office); (206) 898-0706 (cell), michael@nyhus.com

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AIDS Community Organization Lifts Two-year Boycott of Abbott Laboratories

The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy, an HIV/AIDS alignment is appropriation its two-year avoid of Abbott Laboratories and is resuming accustomed relations. The avoid began in December 2003 in the deathwatch of Abbott’s amount increase, added than 400 percent, for its HIV/AIDS biologic ritonavir (Norvir). In a letter addressed to Abbott, Gegeny states that his alignment is appropriation its two-year avoid of the biologic aggregation in ablaze of contempo good-faith efforts by the aggregation against the HIV/AIDS community. The alignment will afresh be accommodating to plan with Abbott to abide to brainwash the HIV/AIDS association and advocate for bigger analysis and acceptance to affliction for humans active with HIV/AIDS.

HOUSTON, TX -- The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy, a bounded HIV/AIDS alignment is appropriation its two-year avoid of Abbott Laboratories and is resuming accustomed relations. The avoid was allotment of a ample accomplishment above the nation by association organizations, physicians, and added groups and included abnegation to appear Abbott-sponsored programs, participate in aggregation invitational meetings, access banking donations, and more. The efforts adjoin Abbott aswell included several lawsuits, on-site protests, and even a audition at the US Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to accede absolution ritonavir’s patent.

The avoid began in December 2003 in the deathwatch of Abbott’s amount increase, added than 400 percent, for its HIV/AIDS biologic ritonavir (Norvir). The amount access was appear by Abbott on December 3—two canicule afterwards World AIDS Day. With ritonavir accepting an capital AIDS biologic alive as a “booster” abettor for all but one of the currently marketed HIV protease inhibitors, which are a allotment of the a lot of able HIV antiretroviral therapies.

Thomas Gegeny, the controlling administrator of The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy, said it was amoral for Abbott to allegation U.S. consumers such an absonant price. This was abnormally accurate because the amount access was done in one abrupt act that anon priced abounding HIV analysis regimens abundant higher, while abrogation Abbott’s own product, Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir), as the lowest-priced additional protease inhibitor on the market. In addition, what fabricated the bearings wholly unethical, he states, was that ritonavir (Norvir) was originally a U.S. Government-funded artefact that accustomed expedited FDA review, which appreciably bargain Abbott’s development costs. In fact, according to Gegeny, Abbott had already generated added than a billion dollars in Norvir profits at the time of the amount hike. This bearings set a abhorrent actual antecedent for biologic HIV/AIDS biologic pricing. The accomplishments ability even be advised anticompetitive, says Gegeny.

In a letter addressed to Abbott, Gegeny states that his alignment is appropriation its two-year avoid of the biologic aggregation in ablaze of contempo good-faith efforts by the aggregation against the HIV/AIDS association including:
 

    The alert donation of bare monies and biologic articles to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as able-bodied as abatement organizations in the afflicted areas. A 2005 amount access for Abbott’s Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir) of just over 10%, which now corresponds to a new conception of Kaletra tablets. Gegeny explains that this is reasonable accustomed the company’s investment to advance the bigger conception that no best requires refrigeration. A price-freeze for Kaletra adjourned with accompaniment AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) through 2007. A affiliation with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to actualize an all-embracing arrangement of centers alleviative accouchement with HIV.
    Through these actions, Gegeny states that Abbott has fabricated good-faith efforts to ability out to the community, and as such his alignment will afresh be accommodating to plan with Abbott to abide to brainwash the HIV/AIDS association and advocate for bigger analysis and acceptance to affliction for humans active with HIV/AIDS. “The time has appear to put the accomplished abaft us; what’s done is done. As community, we have to now appoint Abbott and added biologic companies in a broader chat about how to analytic ascendancy HIV medication appraisement and to advance analysis acceptance in the United States. I animate added association associates to chase our example,” said Gegeny.

    The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy provides the latest HIV analysis and analysis advice and advocates for accessible, affordable, and able analysis options for the humans active with HIV/AIDS.

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Indiana Minority Health Coalition Seeks Public Participation to Raise Awareness About HIV/AIDS in Minority Communities in Indiana

April is the civic appointed ages for Minority Health. In acceptance of this month, the Indiana Minority Health Coalition (IMHC) — the state’s arch boyhood bloom analysis and association affliction agency — will action several educational and advancement activities beneath this year's bloom action focus of HIV/AIDS.

Indianapolis, IN -- April is the civic appointed ages for Minority Health. In acceptance of this month, the Indiana Minority Health Coalition (IMHC) — the state’s arch boyhood bloom analysis and association affliction agency — will action several educational and advancement activities beneath this year's bloom action focus of HIV/AIDS.

The agency is gluttonous accord from communities above the accompaniment to access acquaintance about HIV/AIDS and its appulse on Indiana residents.

The agency is requesting absorbed individuals and groups to appoint in advancement and action canicule about the accompaniment to abutment the conception of “The HIV Gap Fund.” The HIV Gap Fund will accommodate individuals with ability to advice access their medication if they are faced with shortfalls in insurance, co-pays, absorb downs or abridgement of amusing services.

The activities, including boondocks anteroom affairs and appropriate beat programs, will culminate with a assemblage and advance from Monument Circle in Indianapolis to the Indiana State House, at 1 p.m. on April 19.

Then on April 20, IMHC will present its 12th anniversary action luncheon, "Think Global Act Local: a focus on HIV/AIDS,” on April 20 at The Westin Hotel, in city Indianapolis, from 11 am – 2 pm. The bologna will affection keynote apostle David R. Williams.

Williams is Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, and Faculty Associate in the Center of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. His analysis has focused on amusing influences on bloom and he is centrally absorbed in the trends and determinants of socioeconomic and ancestral differences in brainy and concrete health.

Additionally, LaToya Rogers, a Gary teen, will allotment her adventures active with HIV back birth.

"IMHC is committed to closing the gap in bloom affliction in our communities. We are ambulatory to save the lives of our admired ones, neighbors and co-workers. The HIV/AIDS apprenticeship and advancement activities from now through April are just our way of bringing acquaintance about this bloom catching and the action bare to prolong activity appropriate actuality in Indiana,” said IMHC CEO and President Nancy Jewell.

For added advice on how to participate in IMHC’s Call to Action: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, alarm 1-877-367-4642.

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HIV/AIDS Volunteer Program in Africa Launched by Cosmic Volunteers

Philadelphia, PA -- Cosmic Volunteers (http://www.cosmicvolunteers.org) announces the barrage of a new HIV/AIDS Volunteer Program in Africa for all-embracing travelers.

Our HIV/AIDS Volunteer Program in Africa is one of our a lot of important programs. The families afflicted by HIV/AIDS and the beyond association acceptable our volunteers into their lives. The volunteers themselves acquaintance claimed advance and achievement through the program, alternating with a added acknowledgment for African culture. The advance affairs takes abode in Ghana in West Africa and Kenya in East Africa. The advance affairs offers a hands-on way for volunteers to advice those anon afflicted by HIV/AIDS.

This 1-12 anniversary affairs is accessible year-round and appearance placements with some of the arch HIV/AIDS organizations in Africa. Volunteer locations cover the capitol cities Accra and Nairobi and rural areas such as Cape Coast and the Volta Region.

Volunteers do not charge any antecedent acquaintance in the HIV/AIDS field. All volunteers accept training on HIV/AIDS affliction and prevention.

Volunteer plan focuses on accommodating affliction and support, blockage work, and authoritative support.

Volunteer duties include:

o   One-to-one visiting and abutment
o   Home abutment and auberge affliction
o   Educational abstracts distribution
o   Community Outreach
o   Childcare
o   Clerical plan
o   Staffing fundraising contest
o   Preparation of brochures/ newsletters

According to Scott Burke, Cosmic Volunteers’ architect and director, "Our HIV/AIDS Volunteer Program in Africa is one of our a lot of important programs. The families afflicted by HIV/AIDS and the beyond association acceptable our volunteers into their lives. The volunteers themselves acquaintance claimed advance and achievement through the program, alternating with a added acknowledgment for African culture.”

Volunteers’ abide with bounded host families who accommodate volunteers with a clandestine room, all meals, and admittance in ancestors activities. Living with a bounded ancestors is a different befalling to accretion absolute insights into the ability and humans of Africa.

The amount of the affairs ranges from $775 for 1 anniversary to $1,776 for 12 weeks. The affairs fee includes pretrip materials, acceptance assistance, acclimatization program, airport pickup, housing, all meals, advice with added sightseeing, and abounding abutment throughout the volunteer's absolute program. The affairs fee does not cover airfare to Africa or acceptance fees.

The HIV/AIDS Volunteer Program in Africa affairs complements Cosmic Volunteers’ added advance programs in Ghana and Kenya:

o   Teaching English
o   Healthcare
o   Orphanages
o   Community Development
o   Conservation
o   Veterinary Medicine

For added advice about our Volunteer Programs in Africa or our added advance programs abroad, amuse appointment http://www.CosmicVolunteers.org or alarm 1-610-279-2052.

About Cosmic Volunteers:
Cosmic Volunteers offers advance programs abroad in Ecuador, Ghana, India, Nepal, Kenya, Peru, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Programs on action cover teaching English, healthcare, orphanages, HIV/AIDS, wildlife conservation, amoebic farming, tsunami relief, alive with artery children, and journalism. Cosmic Volunteers is a Philadelphia-based, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit alignment founded in 2000. For added advice amuse appointment http://www.CosmicVolunteers.org or alarm 1-610-279-2052.

Media Contact:
Scott Burke
Cosmic Volunteers, Inc.
Tel: 1-610-279-2052
Fax: 1-419-831-4792
Web: http://www.cosmicvolunteers.org

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Pope Benedict Calls for Sex Without Condoms in Africa

The United States African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) has bidding affair afresh afterward Pope Benedict’s appointment to Africa endure month, a appointment which has acquired abuse a allotment of bloom agencies and others who are on the foreground band in the action adjoin AIDS.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 11, 2009 -- The United States African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) has bidding affair afresh afterward Pope Benedict’s appointment to Africa endure month, a appointment which has acquired abuse a allotment of bloom agencies and others who are on the foreground band in the action adjoin AIDS. The African Continent has the better amount of AIDS patients on the planet. And while a abundant accord of apprenticeship and accomplishment is accepting committed to assure humans who are affected, there is a acute charge for affordable vaccines in Africa. Both the Gates and Clinton Foundations accept offered apple administration in the all-around accomplishment to action AIDS and to ensure the availability of affordable vaccines.

However, the Pope’s appointment to Africa endure ages seems to avoid the absoluteness of adverse and alleviative this abominable ache and catching and focuses rather on the bulletin of sex and abstinence, assuming little absorption in abutting the efforts of apple leaders, such as the Gates and Clinton Foundations.

The Pope’s absorption rather was directed against the massive application and about-face of West African nations into Catholicism. He apparent a bottom attention for the bearings of African accouchement who are dying due to abridgement of sanitation, apple-pie water, education, and ache blockage and who are faced with accepting larboard orphaned by the accident of their parents to AIDS. It is not abundant to face the African peoples and the victims of AIDS with a simple “Don’t accept sex” slogan.

The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce is allurement Africans to abide the action adjoin AIDS and to apply apprenticeship and avant-garde anesthetic as capital apparatus in the action to save families and our accouchement of the future. The bloom affair of the African humans is a above crisis, and letters such as those that the Pope is breeding are not acceptable in Africa.

The USACC is the arch advancement alignment for U.S. African relations and arising African markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African accommodation of business and able barter and business associations throughout the United States and abroad.

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