30 million AIDS victims

30 Million AIDS Victims
The deadly virus of death is still unresolved. According to Nature Medicine Magazine, AIDS affects the lives of more than 30 million of people around the world.
On that same note, the President of the Christian Doctors of Catalonia, J. María Simón Castellví, asserted that the Catholic Church takes care of 26 percent of the diseased. In Africa, those infected with AIDS are taken care of by catholic institutions. Priests, members of a religious order, as well as secular laymen and women, provide support for widows to AIDS victims, millions of orphans, terminal diseased, those who can no longer harvest the land, etc… They do more than just stand in opposition to the use of condoms and the like. The Church and its Catholic doctors uphold a healthier alternative for prevention, such as the following principles that define a certain life style: fidelity, abstinence, matrimony, monogamy, abstinence from drug use, avoidance of ritual scarring with infected material, etc…This life style is more humane when it comes to AIDS prevention. These principles allow millions of individuals and families to live a healthy and happy life.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) – the UN’s leader organism responsible for the fight against AIDS – confirms the data provided by the Christian Doctors of Catalonia. For example, when it comes to the assertion that 24 percent of humanitarian organizations dedicated to AIDS victims are rooted upon Catholic institutions. Studies that analyze the ways by which resources and cooperation could be increased and employed to fight against the disease have been conducted in Geneva. These studies have been organized by the Catholic Caritas Confederation, whose headquarters resides within Vatican City. Here, one can see the key role that the Catholic Church plays when it comes to providing for a humanitarian emergency response. They tend to focus on growing awareness of the pandemic through education.

The Christian response to the AIDS pandemic is seen as a positive element in combating the shame and discrimination that the fight against AIDS may spur. It has served in helping millions of people to co-exist with this deadly disease in order to better confront it. To that extent, the United Nations Organization is becoming more aware of the vital role that the Catholic Church plays in the ongoing fight. It represents the heart and nervous system of those victims infected by the deadly disease, AIDS. (Translated by Gianna A. Sanchez-Moretti)

Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer has led a distinguished career in Spain in the fields of publicity and press relations. He is currently President of the European Institute of Marketing.
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