HAART is the name of one of the main projects of South Africa’s Blessed Gerard Care Centre. HAART stands for Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy and this particular project is part of one of the world’s largest NGO programmes of this kind and that is the AIDS treatment programme of the Catholic Bishops Conference
of South Africa.
We shall learn more about HAART shortly. First let’s reflect on our interview with Fr. Gerard Lagleder last week on this feature, when he shared about the need to inform people about how HIV AIDS can be transmitted so as to combat misinformation, which as we heard, can lead to the tragic abuse of children.
Traditional healers should learn the truth and help combat misinformation and
we heard that Catholic youth groups and schools are trying to guide the youth with the right information.
Another branch of the Blessed Gerard Care Centre is the Hospice and Fr. Gerard begins today with an outline of their work.
From the work of the Hospice, Fr. Gerard turned to the HAART project, which as we mentioned earlier stands for Highly Active anti Retroviral Therapy.
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The danger of forgetting to take antiretroviral therapy for just one day, pointed out by Fr. Gerard Lagleder, in this third part of an interview he gave to the Africa Service of VR about the work of the Blessed Gerard Care Centre which is located in Mandeni, South Africa.
To find out more visit their web site, www.bb.org.za