ICROSS in the fight against AIDS!
sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by AIDS, most of the world. There in 2005 an estimated 24.5 million people were living with HIV and which infected nearly 3 million people alone in the new year 2005. Also offer the 12 million AIDS orphans a hard blow to the already huge problems anyway, and having wrestling with these problems the continent.
It may be noted steps in the right direction and it is proved that the epidemic is slowly declining. ICROSS located since 1988 in the fight against AIDS. There are some programs and projects carried out jointly in cooperation with the partners of ICROSS and encouraged, and allow thousands of the poorest people in Africa suffering from HIV / AIDS to reach and support.
ICROSS implements dynamic and innovative prevention in schools, villages, towns and within vulnerable groups. ICROSS provides training programs, care and support services for AIDS victims and their families prepared. It also offers projects and measures to reduce poverty, suffering and pain and for treatment certain concomitant with AIDS diseases. An ever-growing network of "women's groups," "village support groups, and traditional doctors, healers and health practitioners working hard to keep together with ICROSS the new cases of HIV as low as possible or to reduce. Education campaigns, exhibitions, as well as organized competitions or working closely with the sports teams of the communities have been found to be very important to look among the youth and lead to successful prevention. ICROSS provides the care and concern for individual critically ill patients in several remote rural villages and cities and with all your help, the number of patients being cared for by these programs increased and medical supplies can be, so you hope and a better future can be given. The founder of
ICROSS and International Director, Dr Michael Meegan said in a recent speech: "There is a long way to go and we remain committed to long term programs at home and village level ICROSS continues its public health research in finding better ways. to care for the terminally ill children, improve prevention and reach more vulnerable. Our programs have launched HIV AIDS Malaria and TB interventions and will double in size in 2008. "
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