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A DREAM THAT BECOMES TRUE:
the treatment of AIDS in Sub-Saharan AFRICA
Presentation of the DREAM PROGRAM
(Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition) run by the Community
in Sant'Egidio in Mozambique and starting in other four African countries.
DREAM is a program run by the
Community of Sant'Egidio and that has been active on the ground over the last
18 months. 7000 peopole are now covered in Mozambique by the DREAM Program,
3000 are in assistance and therapy.
The amazing, positive results and
the innovative approach (light structures, global approach including the fight
against malnutrition and other environmental difficulties, focus on women and
children as well as special skilled groups of population at the beginning,
attention to cost compatibility, excellency of the service at high Western
standards) will be presented and discussed with the International Press at Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (43/47
Commercial Street – 8001 Cape Town) by Mario Marazziti, spokesperson for the
Community of Sant'Egidio on Tuesday the 18th of Novembre at 3 P.M. The Counsul
of Italy in Cape Town, Alberto Vecchi, will be present.
It is the first time that the main
results of this great program and model of intervention against AIDS in Africa
is presented to the International Press. In the course of the meeting papers,
stories, graphics, and pictures of the DREAM Program will be distributed to the
journalists.
The Community of Sant'Egidio is an
International NGO and charity, based in Rome, where it was born in 1968. More
than 40,000 members, on a voluntary basis, make what Sant'Egidio is today: an
advocate for human rights, a Peace activist, a spiritual experience open to all
and in dialogue with secular society, in 62 countries in the world. In any
country Sant'Egidio's membership is made by local people and this inculturation
is one of the reasons of its effectiveness. It is rooted in the Catholic Church
and it is as well strongly active in Ecumenism and Interfaith Dialogue,
in the defense of human rights, in the service to the poorest in the Planet, in
Dialogue and Peacemaking.
The Community of Sant'Egidio has
been awarded in 2000 the Houphouet Boigny UNESCO PEACE PRIZE, with a special
mention to its commitment to Africa. After being the official
negotiator at the Peace negotiation that brought to the signature of
the Peace Accord in Mozambique, signed in Rome, Italy, on October 4 1992 after 26 months of negotiations at
the Sant'Egidio's headquarters. The
Community of Sant'Egidio has had a role in many different areas of crisis:
namely Guatemala (where it restarted the Peace process that ended in 1996 a 30
year old civil war), Burundi (the Community chaired the Committee on Ceasefire
and security for all at the International negotiation led by Nyerere and
Mandela), and, in the last year, in Ivory Coast (at the Marcoussis negotiation,
by Paris, invited to give a contribution by the French Government) and in
Liberia (LURD launched the unilateral ceasefire from Sant'Egidio headquarters
in the final moment of the crisis).
Sant'Egidio is also leading, with
other organizations, the worldwide Campaign to stop all capital executions. The struggle against AIDS in Africa is part of
this effort.
For more informations:
Scalabrini Development Agency Cape Town 021.4656433
Home Page: www.development.scalabrini.net
Conctact Person: Ciro Migliore:
083.3027771
Community of Sant’Egidio Rome (Italy)
Home Page: www.santegidio.org
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