Press Release

Rome,  May 27 2005

AN AFRICA WITH NO MORE DEATHS FROM AIDS 
A CHALLENGE WE CAN MEET

Africa is dying from issues so great that large sections of the world, and of Africa itself, risk falling into the mindset that they are unsolvable and therefore need not be addressed. With 13 million AIDS orphans, and almost 30 million adults infected with HIV-AIDS, the very future and will to live of an entire continent are being put to the test.

But the battle against AIDS can be won. 

We draw up a balance of the powers at play; look at successful initiatives and at what is on the move on the African continent: at what remains to be done. The state of play in a war that was never declared, is close to being lost, yet today is possible to win. 
DREAM is the most successful international anti-AIDS project in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, with the widest experience in innovation and involving all the major players active today on the great African continent: from the governments of countries most affected to European and worldwide governments and institutions engaged in the struggle; from WHO to the World Bank. DREAM meets in Rome at the invitation of the Community of Sant�Egidio: a European event within the Italy-Africa initiative.

Facts, news, accounts, lived experience, a new �light healthcare�: proposals for a fresh global focus in this battle for our times.

International Conference 

A DREAM FOR AFRICA � CHILDREN WITHOUT AIDS
Rome, 27 May 2005
Rome, Campidoglio, Aula Giulio Cesare
from 09.00 to 13.30

PROGRAMME

Starting three years ago, the DREAM programme (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition) is a holistic, (education, prevention, and cure), response to AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, TB and other principal opportunistic diseases. Mozambique has been the first venue for what is today becoming a pan-African model strategy showing the best qualitative and quantitative results, and at cost levels sustainable by economies of limited resources and low levels of infrastructure.

The principal movers in this programme, together with leading international authorities in the field, are meeting to post results so far attained and to project jointly a dream for Africa: �children without AIDS�.

THE HEALTH MINISTERS OF 15 AFRICAN NATIONS WILL BE PRESENT AT THE CONGRESS TO EVALUATE RESULTS ATTAINED BY THE PROGRAMME AND TO ANALYSE ITS COMMENCEMENT IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES