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En la última sesión de la reunión religiosa previa a la conferencia sobre el VIH y el SIDA, las comunidades religiosas renovaron su compromiso de poner fin al VIH y el SIDA, y de mantener la presión ante la insensibilización producida por la saturación informativa sobre el SIDA.

“Prophet, people and a plan.” That’s what faith-based organizations (FBOs) need to ensure nobody living with HIV is left behind, said Jesse Milan, past board chair of the Black AIDS Institute. He was speaking as part of a panel group at the Faith on the Fast Track AIDS2016 Pre-Conference.

We are failing our children with HIV care was the stark message of a joint session of the interfaith and Catholic pre-conferences being held in Durban, South Africa in advance of AIDS 2016. Targets for childcare have been missed, medication is not suitable and we still need earlier infant diagnosis with half of infants infected dying within 24 months.

More than 150 people attending the interfaith pre-conference, which opened on 16 July in Durban, heard urgent challenges to reduce stigma and discrimination; increase access to HIV services; and defend human rights as key elements of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Más de 150 personas asistieron a la reunión interreligiosa previa a la conferencia que se inauguró el 16 de julio en Durban, donde escucharon los urgentes desafíos para reducir el estigma y la discriminación, aumentar el acceso a los servicios relacionados con el VIH, y defender los derechos humanos como elementos clave para poner fin al SIDA como amenaza para la salud pública antes de 2030.

Representatives of faith-based organizations and communities will gather 16-17 July in Durban, South Africa for an interfaith pre-conference, “Faith on the Fast Track: Reducing Stigma and Discrimination, Increasing Access, and Defending Human Rights – NOW!”

As they talk during a workshop in Ghana, women are collectively asking a question: “Is it not time for women and girls to raise their voices to say what they want as mothers, as widows, as single parents, and as God’s children?”

Churches are engaged at the grassroots level throughout the world in the response to HIV and AIDS, but the struggle against the disease and those stigmatized for being HIV positive needs to continue, say church leaders.

Getting more people tested and treated for HIV, caring for the sick, helping people understand how to care for themselves —these are the tasks of faith-based organizations (FBOs) helping people with HIV in local communities.

As a United Nations high-level meeting on ending AIDS led to the adoption of a new political declaration to fast-track progress toward combating HIV and AIDS, the faith community responded, both with words of commendation and a call for changes.

The World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance is taking registrations and workshop proposals for “Faith on the Fast Track,” an interfaith pre-conference scheduled for 16-17 July in Durban, South Africa.

As the El Nino weather pattern challenges southern Africa, what is the role of churches in helping people realize their right to food and livelihood?

A workshop in Tanzania created a “safe space” in which adolescents, church leaders, theologians, development practitioners and others could share their feelings and ideas about HIV response.

Faith-based organizations presented significant input at a 6 April United Nations civil society hearing in New York City, a prelude to a UN High Level Meeting on HIV in New York on 8-10 June.

Varias organizaciones religiosas presentaron importantes aportaciones en la audiencia de la sociedad civil que tuvo lugar el 6 de abril en Nueva York, como antesala a la Reunión de Alto Nivel de las Naciones Unidas sobre el VIH/SIDA que se celebrará del 8 al 10 de junio también en Nueva York.

Sexual and reproductive health services must be not just "youth-friendly" but also “male- and female-friendly" and "youth participatory" so that young men and women gain access to the information and services they need and want, agreed adolescents who attended a workshop in Lomé, Togo on 24-25 March.

Un grupo de adolescentes que participaron en un taller en Lomé (Togo) los pasados 24 y 25 de marzo estuvieron de acuerdo en que los servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva no solo tienen que ser accesibles para los jóvenes, sino también para hombres y mujeres, y deben contar con la participación de los jóvenes, para que tanto los hombres como las mujeres jóvenes tengan acceso a la información y a los servicios que deseen y necesiten.

As summer approaches, the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) is now in full preparation for the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), hosted in Durban 18-22 July 2016.

Con el verano cada vez más cerca, la Alianza Ecuménica de Acción Mundial del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias está en plena preparación de la 21ª Conferencia Internacional sobre el SIDA, que tendrá lugar en Durban (Sudáfrica) del 18 al 22 de julio de 2016.

Preventing HIV, particularly among adolescents and youth, was the focus of a two-day meeting for 25 Sunday school teachers and chaplains from the Methodist Church of Togo, Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Togo, Assemblies of God, Baptist Convention and Pentecostal Church.