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For World AIDS Day 2019, the World Council of Churches (WCC) embraces the theme "Communities make the difference." World AIDS Day is being commemorated in the context of 16 Days Against Gender-based Violence, an annual international campaign that began on 25 November and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day. The WCC also helps bring about grassroots awareness and change through the Thursdays in Black campaign for a world free from rape and violence.

A “High-Level Dialogue to Assess Progress on and Intensify Commitment To Scaling Up Diagnosis and Treatment of Paediatric HIV” was convened 6-7 December at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City.

The voices of young people will ring through the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 21 November as part of global celebrations for World Children’s Day linked to other events involving the World Council of Churches (WCC) in different places.

Las voces de los jóvenes resonarán en el Centro Ecuménico de Ginebra el 21 de noviembre como parte de las celebraciones en todo el planeta del Día Mundial de los Niños vinculadas a otros acontecimientos en los que participa el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) en diferentes lugares.

Faith-based organizations have been at the forefront of calls to accelerate HIV testing and treatment for children and adolescents. As gaps in infection and treatment between adults and children have become more apparent, there are now more concerted efforts to “super fast-track” services for children. But will they be enough?

A symbolic bridge, carefully constructed over a two-day interfaith conference, connects an interfaith networking zone with a space shared with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS and Unitaid at the Global Village of the International AIDS Conference 2018.

“Science is important. But social change is needed, and social change happens with faith–based organizations.”

How faith groups and leaders can, should and are building bridges to more effectively eliminate AIDS as a public health threat is the focus of an interfaith event being held in Amsterdam, 21-22 July 2018.

On 17 November, leaders from national and international organizations met in Vatican City to address key concerns in securing early testing and treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV.

Gathered in Kigali, Rwanda on 25-29 September, religious leaders from a variety of faith communities in French-speaking Africa have explored the issue of ”faith-healing only” practices, where some faith communities encourage people living with HIV to stop taking their anti-retroviral medication, claiming they can be healed by faith alone – a rationale devastating for work to overcome HIV and AIDS.

“I believe we need an advocacy strategy to listen, share experiences, and address the issues we face in working for treatment adherence,” said Rev. Dr Nyambura Njoroge, World Council of Churches Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (WCC-EHAIA) coordinator as she addressed a consultation on HIV Treatment Adherence and Faith Healing in Africa on 5 September.

Taking place on 4-8 September in Kampala, Uganda, a WCC and UNAIDS regional consultation on HIV Treatment Adherence and Faith Healing in Africa has gathered to address issues of “faith-healing only” practices in the context of HIV and AIDS. At the core is the question of how religious leaders can partner with governmental organizations nationally and internationally, as well as with other parts of civil society to develop strategies to advocate for HIV treatment adherence, and to build bridges to those among faith-healing only practitioners who are open to dialogue.

Marching through the streets of Nairobi on the Day of the African Child 2017, religious leaders from a range of faith communities in Kenya spoke up publicly for the rights of children and adolescents living with HIV, accompanied by hundreds of people, among them school children from six Nairobi-based schools, as well as dozens of youth volunteers.

Los líderes de varias comunidades religiosas de Kenya se pronunciaron públicamente en favor de los derechos de los niños y de los adolescentes que viven con el VIH, marchando por las calles de Nairobi en el Día del Niño Africano de 2017, acompañados por cientos de personas, entre ellas los alumnos de seis escuelas de la ciudad y decenas de jóvenes voluntarios.

More than 600 people are scheduled to gather in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 June, the Day of the African Child, with the goal of speaking out for ending the AIDS epidemic among children, adolescents and young women by 2020.

Está previsto que más de 600 personas se reúnan en Nairobi (Kenya), el 16 de junio, Día del Niño Africano, con el objetivo de alzar la voz para poner fin a la epidemia de SIDA entre niños, adolescentes y mujeres jóvenes para 2020.

More than 120 religious and spiritual leaders, health workers and young people met on 7-8 February to focus on strengthening the fight against stigma in the HIV response in Kenya. They were joined by representatives from the Kenyan government, civil society organizations, networks of people living with HIV, and development partners for an event in Nairobi. The meeting, “Faith on the Fast Track: Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination Through Love and Dialogue” aimed to assess the impact of the Framework for Dialogue methodology which has been implemented in several countries since 2013.

Más de 120 líderes religiosos y espirituales, trabajadores sanitarios y jóvenes se reunieron los días 7 y 8 de febrero para centrarse en intensificar la lucha contra la estigmatización en el marco de la respuesta al VIH en Kenya. A ellos se unieron, en un evento que tuvo lugar en Nairobi, representantes del gobierno de Kenya, organizaciones de la sociedad civil, redes de personas que viven con el VIH, y asociados para el desarrollo. La reunión, “La fe en la vía rápida: eliminar el estigma y la discriminación a través del amor y el diálogo”, tenía por objeto evaluar el impacto de la metodología del Marco para el Diálogo, la cual se ha aplicado en varios países desde 2013. El evento fue organizado por la Red Internacional de Líderes Religiosos con VIH y Sida o personalmente afectados (INERELA+ Kenya) y el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias-Alianza Ecuménica de Acción Mundial (CMI-AEAM), con el apoyo del Programa de las Naciones Unidas sobre el VIH/SIDA (ONUSIDA), entre otros.

“In our community, HIV is not spoken about openly. And the challenge is, it’s like people are both informed and not informed. They know what HIV is, that it’s an illness that can be treated, but still they don’t want to really talk about it, like they don’t really want to know about it…”