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12th World AIDS Conference
Geneva, Switzerland / 28 June - 3 July 1998

Stop AIDS
Community Symposium

HIV and Religion
Faith, Hope and Fatalism in dealing with AIDS

Monday June 29, 1998
17h30-20h00
Session Hall 2, Palexpo, Geneva
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Buddhism and AIDS

by Jerome Ducor
English translation by Helen Loveday

Footnotes
  1. The AIDS Epidemic, pamphlet published by the Buddhist Churches of America (1989). (back to the text)
  2. Etienne Lamotte, L'enseignement de Vimalakirti (Louvain, 1962), p. 131, n. 20. (to the text)
  3. Etienne Lamotte, Le Traité de la grande vertu de sagesse, 3 (Louvain, 1970), p. 1536-1537; id., Histoire du bouddhisme indien (Louvain, 1976), p. 67, 253-254, 474. Cf. Edward J. Thomas, Les écrits primitifs du bouddhisme (Paris, 1949), p. 156-161. (to the text)
  4. Hobogirin, 3 (Paris, 1974), p. 225b, 230b-232a. (to the text)
  5. Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught (New York, 1974), p. 81-82. (to the text)


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BUDDHIST HIV/AIDS Projects and Resources

originally by Belly of the Buddha - The Buddhist AIDS Network
revised by Jerome Ducor


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DATA

Data on HIV/AIDS
UNAIDS working group

>> UPDATE ! (June 2000)

Global summary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, December 1997

People newly infected with
HIV in 1997
Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years

5.8 million
5.2 million
2.1 million
590 000

No. of people living with
HIV/AIDS
Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years

30.6 million
29.5 million
12.1 million
1.1 million

AIDS deaths in 1997 Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years

2.3 million
1.8 million
820 000
460 000

Total no. of AIDS deaths
since the beginning of the epidemic
Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years

11.7 million
9.0 million
4.0 million
2.7 million

Total no. of AIDS orphans since the beginning of the epidemic

8.2 million

About 16 000 new HIV infections a day in 1997

More than 90% are in developing countries

1 600 are in children under 15 years of age

About 14 000 are in adults, of whom:

  • over 40% are women
  • over 50% are 15–24 year-olds

>> UPDATE (June 2000)


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