Please help my friend Francis Otieno care for children affected by HIV/AIDSin Africa. He desperately needs your donations.
Prayers
A Prayer for the Children Affected by the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Kenya
Dear God of healing and hope,
The severe children's epidemic in Kenya that we ask you to help. Many times we know how you’d like us to react but our own discomforts and uneasiness cloud your vision for us. We know you to be a welcoming God perfectly exemplified in the person of Jesus, the one we call Christ One who extends grace to all people. May Mother Mary guide us in our plan to help all children in need.
O God, too often this is the case when we talk about HIV and AIDS. We’d rather not think about how it was contracted, but at the same time that is all we can think about. Too often we get caught up in a spirit of retributive justice, rather than responding out of the grace that was first extended to us.
Help us, Gracious One, to truly follow the ways of the One who healed without question, even on the Sabbath, instead of perpetuating a culture of “unclean” lepers. And challenge us to accept that our passing judgment against segments of our society contribute to new HIV infections rather than reducing them. Open our eyes—give us 20/20 vision—so that we may see that racism, homophobia, bi-phobia, and trans-phobia, in addition to a general reluctance to think about children becoming prey to the epidemic of HIV-AIDS in the continuing rise of HIV-infection rates as the evil they are and be delivered from them.
May your Holy Spirit comfort those children who are hurting and dying. Hold them in your loving embrace and in your healing and mercy, Amen.
In Christ our Lord,
Chris Manion
Interviews
Books
Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention by James F. Keenan (Editor)
Television Reviews and Commentaries
Pose Reviewed by Michael J. O’Loughlin America
Poems
To My Caregiver
Dear stranger, I lounge here, awaiting your arrival,
pondering the complexities of my survival:
I too once climbed stairs and saw all too well
men tottering on the threshold of hell,
joys discarded, bodies wasted, life spent.
To these I have been an angel sent
in the most ordinary guise and fashion,
bearing a lifetime's supply of compassion.
Imagine me an angel! Imagine me divine
when every human failing and flaw have been mine.
I have been weak and wanting, full of need.
I have lived with wounds too deep to bleed.
But I have been foolish, selfish in my despair.
You put me to shame. Please, pull up a chair.
by Dennis Rhodes
Articles/Commentaries
Case Report: Emergent Resistance in a Treatment-Naive Person With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Under Bictegravir-Based Therapy by Nicholas Chamberlain, Leandro Mena, James Benjamin Brock Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2021,
Italy’s ‘pusher priest’ investigated over failure to disclose HIV status by Elise Ann Allen Crux
HIV/AIDS vaccine: Why don't we have one after 37 years, when we have several for COVID-19 after a few months? by Ronald C. Desrosiers Microsoft News
Moderna to Begin Human Trials for Two Experimental HIV Vaccines by Elizabeth Gamillo Smithsonian Magazine
How the Black church can help end the HIV/AIDS crisis by Frederick A. Davie and Don Abram Religion News Service
Statement At The General Debate Of The High-Level Meeting On HIV/AIDS by Mons. Fredrik Hansen Holy See
Improving psychological outcomes for orphans living with HIV in Tanzania through a novel intervention to improve resilience: findings from a pilot RCT by Elvis Joseph Miti ResearchGate
YES! Youth-led HIV care pilot in Zambia shows promise by Avert
ACT UP changed AIDS activism. Sarah Schulman wants us to learn its lessons by Irene Katz Connelly The Forward
UN pushes for an end to HIV/AIDS by 2030;77.5 million people have been infected with HIV since the first case was reported 40 years ago. Nearly 35 million have died from AIDS. There is neither a vaccine against HIV nor a cure for AIDS as yet. by Robin Gomes Vatican News
The world can only beat AIDS by ending the inequalities that drive the epidemic by UNAIDS
Children, HIV and AIDS by Avert
Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: “This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now” by Billy Porter, as told to Lacey Ross The Hollywood Reporter/Pocket
Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Honduras nurtures children living with HIV by Gregg Brekke Global Sisters Report
What’s stopping young women in Eswatini from taking PrEP? by Hester Phillips Avert
Biden plan seeks to bolster HIV response, opening door to stronger post-pandemic US by Rajesh Gandhi, MD Infectious Disease News
Artificial intelligence can now design new antibiotics in a matter of days by Sigal Samuel Vox
CDC inquiry sought on HIV outbreak in WVa’s largest county by John Raby The Associated Press
Monthly Injection Is Approved for Patients With HIV by Rebecca Voelker, MSJ JAMA. 2021;325(9):816.
People living with HIV in Kyrgyzstan have won the right to adopt by UNAIDS
National AIDS Memorial Observes Black History Month With AIDS Memorial Quilt by The Skanner
Brazil provides more evidence on link between dolutegravir and birth defects by Hester Phillips Avert
What St. Edmund Campion and AIDS victims share: They were killed by fear by Matt Malone, S.J. America
What reporting on the AIDS epidemic taught me about my fellow LGBT Catholics by Michael J. O’Loughlin America
A low level of darunavir resistance-associated mutation emergence in patients with virological failure during long term use of darunavir in people living with HIV. The ANRS CO3 Aquitaine cohort by Hélène Chaussade, Camille Tumiotto, Fabien Le Marec, and others. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, ofaa567
Irish Aid Annual Lecture: Solidarity in face of HIV at a time of global crisis by Independent Catholic News
Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults.2020 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel by Michael S. Saag, MD; Rajesh T. Gandhi, MD; Jennifer F. Hoy, MBB; et al JAMA. 2020;324(16):1651-1669”
Chinese young people take centre stage on HIV prevention by UNAIDS
In Cameroon, COVID-19 pandemic preventing HIV/AIDS patients getting treatment by Crux Staff Crux
Spanish ‘Hosts Case’ Reveals Europe’s Internal Divisions Over Human Rights by Solène Tadié National Catholic Register
Conference takes stock of progress in AIDS fight during COVID-19 pandemic by Paul Jeffrey CNA/Crux
Long-Acting PrEP Shows Promise by Bridget M. Kuehn, MSJ JAMA. 2020;324(7):62
What You Need to Know About the New Coronavirus and HIV by Mathew Rodriguez and Myles Helfand The Body
UNAIDS launches a call centre for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe By UNAIDS
Third Patient Could Be “Cured” of HIV Following Groundbreaking Treatment by Nico Langthem
Asia must improve to reach global HIV/AIDS targets. The focus on Covid-19 threatens to lead to an increased spread of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases by Michael Sainsbury UCA News
Global Fund COVID-19 Report: Deaths from HIV, TB and Malaria Could Almost Double in 12 Months Unless Urgent Action is Taken by Global Fund
In Togo, a Catholic nun fights coronavirus for the sake of her AIDS patients by Clément Girardot Religion News Service/America
“My biggest concern is to get my antiretroviral medicines”: HIV and COVID-19 in Latin America by UNAIDS
Togo, a ministry helping people living with HIV is a sister's life work by Elisabeth Auvillain Global Sister's Report
Modelling the extreme—COVID-19 and AIDS-related deaths by UN AIDS
Mining, drugs and conflict are stretching the AIDS response in northern Myanmar by UNAIDS
Facing the fear: How Covid-19 and H.I.V./AIDS responses compare by Michael J. O’Loughlin America
Second person ever to be cleared of HIV reveals identity by Nicola Davis The Guardian
New insurance proposal would hurt Americans with HIV by Washington Blade
The Catholic Hospital That Pioneered AIDS Care by Michael J. O’Loughlin America
AIDS, the Catholic Church and LGBT issues today Featured in Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church/America
Coins on the Eyes of the Dead by Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario UCANews.com
A Catholic Sister learns to serve people with AIDS Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church Featured in Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church/America
A gay Catholic Church in the Castro Featured in Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church
Meet the gay priest who served AIDS patients with Mass, prayers and art Featured in Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church/America
Returnee migrant workers spark new HIV fear for Bangladesh by Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario UCANews.com
Hundreds mark World AIDS Day in Ugandan cathedral by Anglican Communion News Service
Cardinal O’Connor in the early days of AIDS explored in new podcast by Christopher White Crux
Isolation through AIDS highlighted in mission photo competition by Rachel Farmer Anglican Communion News Service
A History of Silence The story behind the AIDS crisis’ most iconic poster by Avram Finkelstein Tablet
Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church by America
The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic by Michael J. O’Loughlin America
The Church’s Role in Providing for Victims of HIV in Southeast Asia by International Catholic Migration Association
Pakistani Children Worst Affected in HIV Outbreak by BBC/Bioethics.com
Franciscan nun rescues children affected by HIV/AIDS in Kenya by Doreen Ajiambo Global Sisters Report
India Caritas helps HIV patients in Delhi slums by Umar Manzoor Shah UCASNews.com
New Orleans priest founded first Catholic AIDS hospice by Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service/Crux
Stigma makes HIV life-threatening by UNAIDS
Faith-based organizations: essential partners in the AIDS response for migrants by UNAIDS
Indonesian women fight against HIV-related stigma by Ryan Dagur UCANews.com
HIV shelter outside Panama City readies for papal visit by Juan Zamorano Associated Press/Crux
Everything You Need To Know About HIV and PrEP by Meera Shah Jezebel
Trump Quietly Starts Firing Service members Living With HIV Just Before the Holidays by Lambda Legal
Religious and social groups in Vietnam support people living with HIV/AIDS by Joachim Pham Global Sisters Report
World Aids Day: Progress made but more needed by Lydia O'Kane Vatican News
Work by Sisters of the Holy Spirit diminishes HIV stigma in central India by Saji Thomas Global Sisters Report
Indonesian women fight against HIV-related stigma by Ryan Dagur ,UCANews.com
Indonesian school kick out children with HIV by Ryan Dagur UCANews.com
How a new Catholic resource is serving those living with H.I.V./AIDS in Britain by David Stewart America
An Exploratory Study of HIV+ Adolescents' Spirituality: Will You Pray with Me? by Bernstein K, D'Angelo LJ, Lyon ME. J Relig Health
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right by Edward C. Green and Allison Herling Ruark Catholic Education Resource Center
The Queens of Chavara: Carmelite sisters at ground zero of India’s AIDS epidemic by Paul Wilkes America
Spiritual care may impact mental health and medication adherence in HIV+ populations. by Oji VU, Hung LC, Abbasgholizadeh R, et al HIV AIDS
An Exploratory Study of HIV+ Adolescents' Spirituality: Will You Pray with Me? by Bernstein K, D'Angelo LJ, Lyon ME. J Relig Health
Struggle against virus isn’t over, say Catholics at global AIDS meeting by Paul Jeffrey Crux
Welcome to the Next Deadly AIDS Pandemic by Laurie Garrett The FP Group
Papua pastor a ray of light for HIV patients by Ryan Dagur La Croix International
The Positively Art Calendar Truth & art in the new age of AIDS by Gordon Nary International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
AIDS, Discrimination, and Access to Health Care by Clay J. Cockerell and Gordon Nary Aids Patient Care
Videos
LA County HIV Commission Dr. Bernard Branson Presentation
Collaborative Efforts Needed to Address Gender-based Violence and HIV/AIDS by Cardinal John Ribat
Ending the HIV AIDS Pandemic: An Achievable Goal
HIV and AIDS in Africa: Christian Reflection, Public Health, and Social Transformation
by Jacquineau Azetsop, SJ, from Cameroon speaks to the issues of HIV and AIDS in Africa. The event is sponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice.
HIV/AIDS and the Christian Response
Catholic Charities
Ursuline Sisters brings love, acceptance, and care to HIV/AIDS patients
Resources
Podcast