The Association takes its name from François-Xavier Bagnoud, a young pilot committed to rescuing people through flight who died at the age of 24 in a helicopter accident in Mali, West Africa. His family and friends established and financed with the help of others the activities of the Association in his spirit.
In Brazil, Colombia, India, Thailand, and the United States, the Association has established eight François-Xavier Bagnoud Houses for very young children suffering from HIV/AIDS, so that with tender loving care and the best therapies available provided by a committed staff, they can live longer, happier lives.
In Rwanda, the Association repaired the social fabric of one village to work together to rebuild their homes and welcome orphaned children into their midst. At present, 1,505 families are benefiting from the program designed to promote income-generating activities, and some 2,000 primary school children are receiving assistance for their schooling. In Kigali, the capital, the Association has recently launched a program to provide support for HIV-positive mothers and for foster families caring for over 200 children with AIDS or whose parents have died from the disease.
In Uganda, the Association provides income-generating activities for families who care for 3,200 AIDS orphans in their homes.
In Bolivia, the Association has designed programs that provide school tuition, food, employment opportunities, income-generating projects, AIDS prevention programs, and education health care for up to 500 people.
In Montevideo, Uruguay, the Association reaches out to street children and young people from poor neighborhoods with workshops and training in human rights, healthy sexual development, and employment opportunities.
In Goa, India, the Association cares for 86 children of sex workers and the boarding of over 150 children.
In Rajakstan, India, the Association supports HIV and tuberculosis counselling and testing which has so far reached over 60,000 people.
In Thailand, the Association took the lead in liberating hundreds of young women from brothels. Afterward, it set up a program in Burma (Mayanmar) to help 100 young women learn a profession to provide themselves and their families with a decent living.
In Switzerland, its "Little Prince" program fulfills wishes of very sick children.
Through the François-Xavier Bagnoud International Pediatric HIV Training Program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark, the Association has imparted knowledge and affordable therapies about pediatric AIDS to more than 100 health care workers in two dozen countries who are faced with the reality that 1,000 babies are born every day with HIV. The Association also supports the development of a vaccine developed from the blood of HIV infected people to provide a low-cost cure for the virus by Dr. James Oleske, the holder of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Chair in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases at UMDNJ.
To champion the rights of children and the truth that there can be no sustainable development without the realization that good health and its promotion are basic human rights, the Association set up the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Center and the endowed Professorship document, research, and analyze the relationships between health and human rights with special attention on children. The Center publishes the Journal of Health and Human Rights, organizes international conferences on themes central to its purpose, and sponsors fellowships for scholars for study in its mandated fields.
The Association has recently started another project in Alexandra township, next to Johannesburg, South Africa, where the incidence of HIV within the township is about 60%.
Beside these projects, the current main focus of the Association is AIDS orphans. The president founder of the Association, Albina Du Boisrouvray, is travelling around the world, raising awareness about the catastrophe to come: around 100 million AIDS Orphans by 2010. Part of our action is a petition that we urge you to sign.
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