Dignitas International

AIDS has already claimed more lives than any other epidemic in human history. In the next 24 hours alone, over 5,700 people will die due to AIDS. In response to this emergency, a group of international health experts founded Dignitas International, a medical humanitarian organization dedicated to providing a quality of life with dignity for children, youth and families affected by HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

Dignitas International is responding in three ways:

1. WE DO: by implementing community-based care programs, we increase access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS.
2. WE LEARN: by conducting intervention research to monitor and evaluate our programs, and to answer specific research questions, we continually learn how to improve HIV/AIDS programming in diverse cultural and economic settings.
3. WE SHARE: by sharing what we learn with other organizations, governments and citizens, we improve the international response to global HIV/AIDS.

Dignitas established its first project in Zomba District, Malawi, in 2004.

For More information on Dignitas International, please visit their website at: www.dignitasinternational.org.