Peru's prelates launch plan for AIDS.Lima -- Responding to John Paul The name John Paul might refer to: Full name
tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Pastoral Endeavour of Hope." The program aims to support, serve and educate, and to defend the rights of thousands of people suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) A viral disease of humans caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks and compromises the body's immune system. , said sources of the Peruvian episcopate. Sister Graciela Solis, executive secretary of the bishops' Department of Health Pastoral Care, explained that the initiative is in response to the need to help and support "our brothers who are often marginalized by society." The plan is to involve the Church's whole network of health care agents in dioceses and to coordinate them with health institutions involved in the struggle against AIDS. "The HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome pastoral plan is to work directly with individuals suffering from this scourge, through personal or family visits, to offer them moral and spiritual support," Sister Solis said. Health care agents will offer guidance and undertake campaigns to sensitize sen·si·tize v. To make hypersensitive or reactive to an antigen, such as pollen, especially by repeated exposure. the whole community too, she added. The first case of HIV/AIDS was reported in Peru in 1983. |
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