Textbooks about AIDS are available for doctors, but most of the dying are cared for at home because hospitals are overwhelmed by the demand for help, according to World Relief. Its simple language, photos and diagrams make the information understandable, reported Religion Today . World Relief also is working through denominations and church networks to train volunteers to teach family caregivers practical uses of the manual. Rwandan churches asked World Relief for help. About 500,000 Rwandans, more than six percent of the population, are afflicted with the deadly disease, according to news reports.
Some hospitals are so overcrowded that patients are kept two to a bed.
But a British Muslim peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, has urged young Muslims not to sign up for military training in the hope of joining a jihad in places such as Kashmir and Chechnya. The Campaign for Real Education on Wednesday called for an end to school-based sex education so parents can choose when their children learn the facts of life, according to Catholic World News . Many have not, but have found it more and more difficult as others have surrendered. However, the survey reveals parents are reluctant to discuss the facts of life with their children, particularly their sons. And according to Simon Blake, director of the Sex Education Forum who produced the survey, more than 50 percent of British parents would like guidance on how to talk to their kids about sex but don't know where to get it.