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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GLOBAL HIV/AIDS:

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Provides an overview of the issue worldwide, and information on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS.

Information by country, including reports, speeches and fact sheets, from the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Focuses on U.S. statistics with links to international information.

Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology in Health.

Global Campaign for Microbicides. Information about women and HIV risk.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The Centre: Teaches HIV patients and their families about nutrition, home-based care, stress management and bereavement in Zimbabwe. Provides vitamins, bedpans, soap, gloves and some medicines for infections.

The Centre at AIDS Empowerment and Treatment International
1775 T Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20009
E-mail: centre@ecoweb.co.zw in Zimbabwe or centre@aidseti.org in the U.S.

Mashambanzou: Assists children orphaned by AIDS, provides home-based care for HIV patients and runs an AIDS hospice in Zimbabwe.

Little Company of Mary Sisters (money is wired to Mashambanzou)
c/o Sister Kay Shalvey
9350 South California Ave.
Evergreen Park, IL 60805
E-mail: mashamba@icon.co.zw

PATH, or Program for Appropriate Technology in Health: A nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health around the world.

PATH Office of Development
1455 NW Leary Way
Seattle, WA
www.path.org

Global Campaign for Microbicides: An international coalition of clinical, research, health policy, advocacy and women’s groups joined in the quest for a microbicide to combat HIV.

Global Campaign/PATH
1800 K Street, N.W., Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20006
www.global-campaign.org

The Women’s Global Health Imperative: Develops public health interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy through collaborative research and community education in Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, Tibet, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the United States.

Women’s Global Health Imperative
74 New Montgomery, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94105
www.wghi.org

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