ROME (SE): As World Aids Day was observed on December 1, Father Robert Vitillo, full-time special advisor to Caritas Internationalis on HIV/AIDS and the attaché on health for the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva said, “We still need to maintain our concern.

AMSTERDAM (CNS): Despite rumors of its demise, the AIDS pandemic is far from over. “We broke the conspiracy of silence, but now we face the conspiracy of complacency,” said Michel Sidibe, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), during a July 24 conversation with Catholic and other faith leaders at the biennial International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
 
The conference brought together more than 15,000 AIDS researchers and activists.
 

AMSTERDAM (CNS): Despite rumors of its demise, the AIDS pandemic is far from over. “We broke the conspiracy of silence, but now we face the conspiracy of complacency,” said Michel Sidibe, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), during a July 24 conversation with Catholic and other faith leaders at the biennial International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
 
The conference brought together more than 15,000 AIDS researchers and activists.