Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by HIV and AIDS than any other region of the world with more than 11 million children having been orphaned by AIDS.

In this region alone an estimated 22.5 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2007 and approximately 1.7 million additional people were infected with HIV during that year.

These numbers seem overwhelming, but LIA and our partner churches are working to change the tide one life at a time. Through health training, abstinence programs, testing programs, prevention of mother to child transmission, AIDS support groups and home care we are serving those who are already infected and working to prevent more from becoming infected.

Our Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention Program in partnership with USAID and Food for the Hungry Ethiopia has impacted more than 20,000 youth. Over 800 people living with AIDS are receiving home based care through LIA and partner church volunteers.

 In one year, our Vertical Transmission program saw over 50 women given the appropriate precautions to avoid mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

 Join our fight against this horrible disease and help us minister to those who suffer from AIDS.