HIV/AIDS
This global killer is fuelled by poverty – and in turn is a major threat to development, devastating family and community efforts to build better lives.
Three-quarters of infected people go without the drug treatments that could help them.
Oxfam is working directly with people affected by HIV and AIDS. In Malawi, for instance, we train and support home-based carers – local volunteers who, with Oxfam supplies, support the ill, elderly and orphaned in their communities. To mark World AIDS Day 2007, read more stories of how Oxfam and others are working to fight the AIDS pandemic.
We lobby for change too. Our Health and Education For All campaign presses governments and other donors to provide the $10 billion a year needed for universal HIV and AIDS prevention work, treatment and care.
