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I recently traveled to Ethiopia with Michael Pryce and Joe McCarthy on behalf of the HOPe Charity Organization. Our task was to assess an HIV/AIDS education and development project HOPe is funding with partner organizations, CVM (Community Volunteers of the World) and APA (Aids Partnership with Africa). For ten days we traveled throughout the rural Amhara region in the north. From the orphaned street children to reformed sex workers living with HIV, we witnessed both beauty and crushing poverty, and encountered hope and strength in the people we met.
The first case of AIDS was discovered in Ethiopia in 1984. More than 25 years later the pandemic and its aftermath is still posing a major challenge. A review of the history explains why.
During the late 70s and early 80s the country experienced several man-made and natural disasters: a disruptive Communist government, severe droughts followed by devastating famines. Also, a civil war broke out in 60s and In 1998 a fierce war with Eritrea erupted. This deadly mixture of events fueled the tragic spread of AIDS.[read more..]
I recently traveled to Ethiopia with Michael Pryce and Joe McCarthy on behalf of the HOPe Charity Organization. Our task was to assess an HIV/AIDS education and development project HOPe is funding with partner organizations, CVM (Community Volunteers of the World) and APA (Aids Partnership with Africa). For ten days we traveled throughout the rural Amhara region in the north. From the orphaned street children to reformed sex workers living with HIV, we witnessed both beauty and crushing poverty, and encountered hope and strength in the people we met.
The first case of AIDS was discovered in Ethiopia in 1984. More than 25 years later the pandemic and its aftermath is still posing a major challenge. A review of the history explains why.
During the late 70s and early 80s the country experienced several man-made and natural disasters: a disruptive Communist government, severe droughts followed by devastating famines. Also, a civil war broke out in 60s and In 1998 a fierce war with Eritrea erupted. This deadly mixture of events fueled the tragic spread of AIDS.[read more..]