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How Caritas helps in Syria

13/09/2018 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Health, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Ffion Dean

To escape Islamic State militants, Fowziah Daher, a widow and mother of four children, hid alone for several days in a Syrian olive field. She and her family had been seeking refuge at a farm when the militants arrived. She told her children to run away without her. The family had just come on foot ...

Venezuela Crisis

7/09/2018 Emergencies, Food, Health, Latin America, Malnutrition, Migration, Refugees, Venezuela by Ffion Dean

Find out how Caritas is helping vulnerable Venezuelans with food and health care during the current economic crisis.

Venezuela crisis: Caritas volunteers restore health and hope

2/09/2018 Emergencies, Food, Health, Latin America, Malnutrition, Migration, Refugees, Venezuela by Ffion Dean

Monitoring children at risk of malnutrition Maria Mendoza opens the doors to her driveway in Punta de Mulato, Venezuela in early July. She’s preparing for a weekly growth monitoring session for children under five. Caritas volunteers who have been inspired to help during the Venezuela crisis carry chairs and tables from the Church grounds. A ...

Caritas at World Health Assembly

22/05/2018 Health, Meetings & Events by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas presented successful good practices on the sidelines of teh World health Assembly, namely the success stories of joint efforts in tackling the 1991 cholera emergency in Peru or the collaboration with WHO and other experts to respond to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Concern over new Ebola outbreak in Congo

18/05/2018 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Emergencies, Health by Patrick Nicholson

Caritas is extremely concerned and actively responding to the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears that it could escalate into an epidemic.

Bad news for Burundian refugees in Rwanda as funds dry up

7/05/2018 Africa, Burundi, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, HIV & AIDS by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas lacks money to keep feeding Burundian refugees in Rwanda, even the elderly, new mothers and the sick.

Progress for HIV-positive Children

1/12/2017 Health, HIV & AIDS by Patrick Nicholson

There has been considerable improvement in the care and treatment of children living with HIV. However, Caritas is concerned that progress is slowing down. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) consists of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to suppress HIV. ART also prevents onward transmission. Huge reductions have been seen in rates of death and infections when ART is used. ...

Strengthening faith-based work on children with HIV in Africa

13/06/2017 Health, HIV & AIDS, Nigeria by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Internationalis is joining hands with UNAIDS, PEPFAR and Caritas Nigeria in supporting a regional consultation on the theme “Early Diagnosis and Treatment for HIV-positive Children: Strengthening Engagement of Faith-Based Organisations”. Visit the consultation website There will be 200 participants and experts from all parts of the world, coming together in Abuja, Nigeria on 14-16 ...

Caritas India on Mother Teresa’s canonisation

1/09/2016 Asia, Development, Health, India by Caritas Internationalis

Mother Teresa will be canonized on 4 September in Rome. Caritas India reflects on her compassionate and loving service to humanity

Hospitals run out of supplies in Venezuela

2/06/2016 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Health, Latin America, Venezuela by Caritas Internationalis

Without a functioning healthcare system to help stave off the spread of disease in Venezuela it is falling to organisations like Caritas to pick up the slack.