Hope Prayer Chain: May 2005

Pray…

• FOR the nearly 1.6 million people living in Eastern Europe with HIV.
• FOR mothers everywhere to have access to antiretroviral treatment drugs, clean water, and affordable infant formula.
• FOR a decrease in stigma and discrimination against HIV-affected individuals and families, which hinders efforts toward HIV
• prevention, treatment, care, and support.
• FOR a decline in drug use in Eastern Europe, which would help reduce the rate of HIV infection.
• FOR the G8 countries, that they recommit to their promise to help the millions of people around the world affected by HIV and AIDS.

Learn more: Mothers and families affected by HIV and those living in Eastern Europe

• Watch The Gift, a four-minute movie urging G8 nations to fulfill their pledge to provide all HIV-positive pregnant women with access to antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
• Read about the number of AIDS cases doubling in Eastern Europe.
• Get the facts on mother-to-child transmission and prevention.
• Learn about the eight Millennium Development Goals to combat poverty, HIV and AIDS and other diseases.

Take action

• Support your local Women of Vision chapter — World Vision's volunteer ministry committed to sharing God's love with oppressed and impoverished women around the world.
• Ask Congress to swiftly reauthorize the Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Bill to ensure that children are not left behind in the fight against malaria and AIDS.