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 Faithfully Yours
Universal Chastity Education
Helping People Live Healthy Lives
E-Newsletter December 2010 Vol. 5 No. 4
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Greetings!
This is World AIDS Week and December 1st is World AIDS Day. Although global AIDS doesn't get much media attention, it is a crisis and UCE will not give up.
Probably the big reason we don't hear much about AIDS here in the USA is that because in 2009, only 26,000 people in North America died of AIDS-related illness. We say "only" because in that same year, 1.3 million people died of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Furthermore, UNAIDS has reported that young people between the ages of 15 and 24 account for 40% of new HIV infections....and, new infections are exceeding deaths (7123 new infections/day compared to 4932 deaths/day) so prevention is key.
Eat, pray, learn, in a variety of events that UCE is co-sponsoring during World AIDS Week, 2010. If you can't join us for these events, consider a donation. The Africans want to survive. Help reach youth with the message of abstinence until faithful marriage for a healthy life.
Faithfully yours,
Kim and Ken Dernovsek
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EAT on Friday December 3rd at 630pm, Christ the King parish hall, 1708 Hor seshoe Drive, Pueblo CO, "Stories from Africa" UCE Fundraiser with Ugandan meal and music
Donate $25/person to UCE and experience "You are most welcome here!" Ugandan greeting and music at 630pm followed by traditional Ugandan meal and African stories from UCE participants Andrew Dernovsek and Dom Cingoranelli. Come and support UCE programs in Africa that save lives through teaching youth about abstinence and faithfulness in marriage.
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PRAY on December 1st, remember the 33 million people in the world who are suffering with HIV/AIDS. Ecumenical event at Christ the King, 1708 Horseshoe Drive, Pueblo. All-night prayer vigil, Agape meal and speaker on "The Reality of AIDS in AFRICA"
 6pm Agape meal led by Fr. Andrew McMullen
7pm "The Reality of AIDS in Africa" by Andrew Dernovsek who lived and worked for 2 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho where the HIV prevalence rate is the third highest in the world. He also spent many months in Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania and will share his first hand experience of dealing with AIDS in Africa.
8pm Bishop Fernando Isern, Diocese of Pueblo, opens the vigil with prayer
ALL-Night Prayer vigil. Pray for one hour.
730am December 2nd Closing Mass, Bishop Fernando Isern
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LEARN World AIDS Day speaker, Kim K Dernovsek MD "VISION TO END HIV/AIDS" Wenesday, December 1, 2010 at 11am at Pueblo Community College, Fortino B allroom, Orman Ave and Harrison St Pueblo, CO
Dr Dernovsek, Associate Clinical Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Family Practice, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, practices dermatology in Pueblo, CO and serves as director/medical advisor of Universal Chastity Education operating in Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania. She has recently authored the chapter, "Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases from Office to Globe" in the medical textbook, Preventive Dermatology (2010)
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Universal Chastity Education, Inc. (UCE) is an educational organization established in 2004 and determined to be a public charity, exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its purpose is to promote through education sexual abstinence until marriage and marital fidelity as healthy lifestyles free from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and AIDS. UCE operates outreach events in rural Uganda. and launched in Burundi in 2007 and Tanzania in 2009. Visit the UCE website
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