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JCAM 2021 07 Annual Review small business selling bananas at a roadside market, and she them part of the solution including those often forgotten in proudly affirms: “with the little that I save I pay fees for my prisons and correctional centres. eldest son who has joined Kyambogo University to pursue a Tendai, a 23 years-old University student from Jesuit AIDS course in engineering. My youngest daughter performed project (JAP) in Zimbabwe says: “before I was never very well in the primary leaving examinations and was interested in AIDS issues, I thought I knew everything, yet I granted a scholarship at Ocer Campion Jesuit College”. She knew nothing. Now I am always asking myself: what can I added: “I dream of acquiring a piece of land, where I can do? HIV and AIDS is everybody’s business, and everyone build a house, so my children can have a permanent place to has a part to play”. One of the beneficiaries of Service Yezu call home. With improved health and support, I hope I will Mwiza (SYM) in Burundi affirms “I was tested for HIV 8 make it”. (Ajanews107, April 2012). years ago. SYM put me on ARVs, drugs that brought me back to normal life. When the SYM saw that I am taking my treatment correctly and that I am model person in my community, it suggested me to be a community- relay (link) person. From then onward, I travel hill by hill and household by household, raising awareness about health hygiene and the fight against HIV/AIDS. SYM regularly gives us tools for our work. When a person suspects she may have been infected with HIV, I give her a quick HIV screening test with the Oraquick. If the test is positive, I send her to the SYM headquarters to be re-examined and put on ARV treatment, the positive result is confirmed. When she/he returns to the School children participating in AHAPPY event community, I make sure that this person takes the © AJAN medication correctly and that she/he observes the hygiene advice to limit further contamination.” That is the case of promoting entrepreneurship among the To continue witnessing to Christ’s mission of compassion, young adults and young mothers to fight poverty, youth-led protection, and care, as it has been the past two decades, initiatives for a healthier and prosperous planet, prevention AJAN needs the support of any individual, private or public of Covid-19 and alleviation of its effects on PLVHIV, institution of good will that hungers for justice, peace, and attention to those with leprosy and other people with wellbeing. My gratitude in advance to you who want to underlying conditions, attention to Hepatis prevention and support and be part of our history and contribution to its effects, initiatives to eradicate tuberculosis and malaria, transform lives and give back a smile to the most affected. etc. The Network cherishes and values partnership and My Gratitude to all our partners, collaborators women and collaboration. That is why across Africa and Madagascar, men for your constant support, commitment, and trust in members partner with individuals, private and public this common work of the Jesuit Conference of Africa institutions, that, like Jesuits, hunger for justice, peace, and Madagascar. health, and wellbeing for all. Beneficiaries and young people are of great concern, and they are put in the centre to make I believe that doing the good or sharing never get lost! Sharing enriches, keeping impoverishes!

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