worldviewimages > Man suffers with AIDS in a Adventist hospital in Kendu Bay, Kenya.
worldviewimages > At first, healthcare specialists were optimistic that a vaccine or a cure would be developed within a few years. Now,twenty-two years later—experimental drugs are available, which can slow the progression of the disease, but still there is no vaccine and no cure. Most of the people in need cannot afford the drugs.
worldviewimages > Some of the youth groups have taken on watching over AIDS orphans in their surrounding villages.
worldviewimages > Unlike so many other children who are left to survive on the street, these young people in the ADRA program are preparing to be the community leaders of the future.
worldviewimages > When sponsorships and other resources are available, some of the children who have lost parents to AIDS can attend boarding academy. Here in a safe learning environment, young minds are free to develop knowledge and skills that will help prevent them from falling into a lifestyle that would make them susceptible to the same virus that took the lives of their parents.
worldviewimages > Volunteers visit with a woman infected with HIV.
worldviewimages > The AIDS pandemic in Africa is expected to grow exponentially until it becomes what is predicted to be the worst human disease disaster the world has ever seen. However, total disaster may be prevented if effective programs of education, intervention, and treatment are implemented.
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worldviewimages > Healthcare workers have identified the need for intervention not only for people infected, but also those affected by the virus. Families already living on the edge of poverty rarely recover when one of the primary providers gets sick. Crops and gardens go unplanted, and the few meager possessions that a family may have are sold in a vain attempt to get medical treatment.
Man suffers with AIDS in a Adventist hospital in Kendu Bay, Kenya.
worldviewimages > Man suffers with AIDS in a Adventist hospital in Kendu Bay, Kenya.
Man suffers with AIDS in a Adventist hospital in Kendu Bay, Kenya.
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