More extensive reports are available for the African countries of Rwanda and Liberia .
Following this meeting, many participants including my wife, Linda, and I attended the annual retreat where we were truly blessed to get to know many of our African brothers who attended the CCIH meeting and who were also speakers at the Global Health Council meeting following the retreat. It was wonderful to have perhaps 15 or so African representatives from Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Nigeria in attendance, all of whom have established and run ministries to serve AIDS victims and their families. It was especially good for me to get to know these Christians, some of whom are AIDS victims themselves. Our informal time of sharing in the retreat that followed made me realize that I have never personally known anybody with AIDS before. It was also a revelation to me that African churches suffer the same disconnection with AIDS victims as churches in the west, namely a lack of willingness to identify with the problem.