‘Hope for little Faith at Nyumbani’


Mr. Hillary Ndung’u, a caretaker at Kenya’s Nyumbani Children’s Home, Nairobi
feeds six-months-old little Faith, a new member of the home that takes
care of children orphaned by HIV/Aids.

ICASA talks hold the key to Africa’s hopes on Aids

By Ken Opala

TODAY, despair meets hope. Africa’s leading combatants in the anti-HIV/Aids war flock to Nairobi for the week-long biennial 13th International Conference on Aids and STIs (ICASA), an assembly of 8,000 participants. It is a melting pot of hope and despair—of a problem and its possible solution.
For five days, HIV/Aids sufferers will interact with the non-infected, health providers, government officials, policy-makers, and researchers. They will compare notes and speak in the same poignant language.
Clerics –– about 50 bishops from different denominations have confirmed attendance –– will be present, too, but hardly to spread the Word. They will seek to rescue mankind, the human race, from the apocalypse that is in the making.
Only a single issue is on cards: HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Yet the entire world will be represented, as four plenaries, 32 round-table debates, 400 oral and scientific paper presentations, and 1,200 posters dissect what is perceived to be a human tragedy.

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