Community gardens: a potential
life saver for people living
with HIV & AIDS, but only
available to a few
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Misery for thousands of Zimbabweans with HIV and AIDS as food shortage bites

Thousands of people with HIV and AIDS are being forced further into misery in Zimbabwe, as drastic food shortages and spiralling prices make it difficult to follow antiretroviral (ARV) treatment regimes, the potent medications essential to manage HIV infection.

The Challenge to Live Simply

This Advent, the livesimply project challenges us anew to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with the poorest members of the world community, writes Christine Allen.

Poor people are key to their own development, Progressio tells charity leaders (10 Dec 2008)

People must be “at the centre” of their own development if they are to lift themselves out of poverty, Progressio’s Executive Director, Christine Allen, told charity leaders this week.

Progressio urges rich nations to honour aid commitments (2 Dec 2008)

Progressio welcomes UK pledge to honour aid commitments to poor countries, but says other rich nations must follow suit

How Progressio is supporting people living with HIV and AIDS around the world (1 Dec 2008)

Progressio is helping to combat the spread of HIV and help those affected by the virus in the 11 countries in which it works. Find out more about our work using our interactive map.

Latest Campaigns

East Timor: Who Cares?
East Timor is still struggling to overcome the legacy of a violent past. The East Timorese people need your help in creating justice in this poverty-stricken nation.

livesimply community challenge – Your challenge to change the world
The latest livesimply initiative encourages communities everywhere to take action for justice. Any community can get involved, large or small. Will you read the signs of your time and place and take action to respond?

Latest publications

Interact Autumn 2008

Progressio
The future for development: opinions and viewpoints towards a new vision for development. Plus articles on Zimbabwe, East Timor, Yemen, Somaliland, Peru, and El Salvador.

Progressio Annual Review 2008

Progressio
The world today is a place of injustice and inequality. Too many people in poor countries are impoverished and oppressed. They are not poor by choice: they are poor because they have no choice. Progressio is working to change that. Read how in our 2008 Annual Review

Unless the grain of wheat shall die: The moral and theological case against Terminator

Sean McDonagh and Donal Dorr
In this Comment, Sean McDonagh and Donal Dorr argue that Terminator technology (the genetic modification of seeds so that they become sterile after the first planting) poses an unacceptable threat to poor and marginalised small-scale farmers and to the world’s environment, and is fundamentally wrong on moral and theological grounds.