Discussion: AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Bishop Dowling
International Health
Thursday, April 10
2:15 pm
Car Barn, Student Lounge
Bishop Dowling is renowned for his
passionate dedication to
fighting the AIDS pandemic in Africa,
and this
discussion is sure to be both informative and moving. Bishop Dowling,
currently
the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Rustenburg in South Africa,
serves as a national spokesperson for the Foundation for Hospices in
Sub-Saharan Africa. With a long history of advocacy for human rights
in
South Africa--particularly for women and
children--as well as his strong activism in the struggle against
apartheid,
Bishop Dowling works among the informal settlements of platinum mine
workers in
his diocese, where the HIV/AIDS incidence rates are 50% in the adult
population. He founded Tapologo Hospice (meaning "place of
peace") to provide inpatient care, home hospice care for the camps,
programs for orphans and vulnerable children, and a major
anti-retroviral
program. Bishop Dowling was named 2005 Time Magazine "Person of the
Year."
Please RSVP to Kelly Singleton at sing...@georgetown.edu
if you are planning to attend this discussion.
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