Anglicans reach out to people living with HIV/AIDS

Notes: Article describes a number of AIDS related outreach projects operated within the diocese of Toronto for local populations and overseas in Africa. Includes the story of the Rev. Doug Willoughby, an Anglican priest who is himself HIV-positive and the diocese's involvement in the Philip Aziz Centre, a non-profit home hospice for people living with AIDS. Describes the work of The Teresa Group, founded by Penelope Holeton, an Anglican lay woman, to help children in Toronto living with AIDS, and also the fundraising work of St. Clement's, Eglinton, which has contributed to the work of the Stephen Lewis Foundation and which in August 2006 "held a reception for grandmothers from Kenya who [were] in Toronto for the International AIDS Conference and the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers' Gathering".

Subjects: AIDS (Disease) - Canada; AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Church work with AIDS patients - Anglican Church of Canada; Philip Aziz Centre (Toronto, Ont.); Hospices (Terminal care) - Canada; Hospitality - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Toronto; Willoughby, Doug; Graydon, Douglas (Douglas Norman); Holeton, Penelope (Penelope Margaret Rathbone), 1941-2015; Teresa Group; AIDS (Disease) - Africa; Medcof, Alice (Mary Alice), 1935-2023; Stephen Lewis Foundation