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OUTREACH to AFRICA |
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Making a Difference One Community at a Time. |
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Outreach to Africa
P.O. Box 14486
Irvine, CA 92633
USA
(949) 477-2056
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Current Projects
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 HIV / AIDS Awareness & Education
Uganda
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of the world that is most affected by HIV & AIDS. An estimated 25.4 million people are living with HIV and approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred in 2004. In just the past year the epidemic has claimed the lives of an estimated 2.3 million people in this region. Around 2 million children under 15 are living with HIV and more than twelve million children have been orphaned by AIDS.
 The extent of the epidemic is only now becoming clear in many African countries, as increasing numbers of people with HIV are now becoming ill. In the absence of massively expanded prevention, treatment and care efforts, the AIDS death toll on the continent is expected to continue rising before peaking around the end of the decade. This means that the worst of the epidemic's impact on these societies will be felt in the course of the next ten years and beyond. Its social and economic consequences are already being felt widely not only in health but in education, industry, agriculture, transport, human resources and the economy in general.
Outreach to Africa is actively involved in addressing the epidemic by promoting HIV/AIDS awareness through radio and television programs as well as presentations to church groups, women’s clubs and school assemblies.
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Copyright 2004-2005 Outreach to Africa. All Rights Reserved.
Outreach To Africa is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization based in Irvine, CA. USA and
is registered as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Uganda, East Africa |
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