May 7, 2003
HIV-Positive Zambian Shares Importance of AIDS Funding with President Bush
An HIV-positive Zambian woman shared her experience with President Bush April 29 during a private meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Health Secretary Tommy Thompson and other key players in the fight against the global AIDS crisis. President Bush called the meeting to promote his Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which triples the U.S. government’s spending on global AIDS prevention and treatment to $15 billion over the next five years. Read more...
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    		• World Vision Delivers Relief Supplies to Bomb-Damaged Hospital
    World Vision on April 26 brought relief supplies to doctors at the Al Rutba hospital in western Iraq, a facility that was heavily damaged by coalition bombs more than a month ago. World Vision staff, who first visited the hospital on April 25 to assess needs, quickly returned by truck with blankets, jerry cans, plastic sheeting, and medicines. Read more...
    		Transition to New Government Proves Rough for People in Bujumbura
    As the Burundi government transitions from control by one ethnic group to another, civilians are feeling the tension as rebel groups continue to attack the capital city of Bujumbura. Over Easter weekend, 10 civilians were killed and another 40 were injured as the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), protested their exclusion from the transition process by bombing Kanyosha Commune just south of Bujumbura. Read more...
    		Shelter Works to Prevent Institutionalization of Georgian Children
    World Vision and its partners opened Georgia’s first mother-and-infant shelter on April 18. In this former Soviet republic where most abandoned children are left to languish in orphanages, the shelter’s goal is to keep infants with their mothers and to return already institutionalized children to their birth families. World Vision is working with the Georgian group EveryChild, UNICEF, and the Georgian Ministries of Labor, Health, Social Affairs and Education. Read more...
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