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What We Do - Health and HIV/AIDS

Since the early 1980s, HIV/AIDS has resulted in over some 25 million deaths worldwide - most in the developing world. Another 39.5 million people are currently infected, the majority of them young and middle-aged adults - the backbone of their nation's economies and the care-providers for the world's children and elderly. CWS seeks to increase the capacity of our local partners to carry out a wide range of community-based prevention, care, and treatment efforts to reverse chronic health problems and impede the growing HIV/AIDs pandemic.

Speak Out on policy decisions affecting access to HIV/AIDS treatment.

Examples of current projects:

• HIV/AIDS-affected youth gain empowerment
• HIV/AIDS-affected family in Tanzania finds hope for the future
• Mobile health unit helps families in remote Bosnian villages
• Empowering Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda
• Giving Hope OVC Success Story -- Bosco Nsabimana
• Food Security in Northern Choluteca, Honduras
• Community Health Organizing & Advocacy, Chile
• Girls' Education and HIV/AIDS Awareness, Mozambique
• The Church of Christ, Thailand
• Core Program, Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees, Gaza
• Orphan & Vulnerable Children Micro-Enterprise/Scholarship Fund, Rwanda

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