Christ The Healer Project is a charitable organisation (Registered Charity Number 1118344) and support group for the Youth Alive program of AIDS/HIV workshops based in the Transkei region of South Africa, which is directed by Fr. Matthias Nsamba Labega, the Diocesan Youth Chaplain of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aliwal. The program supports young people to live positive lifestyles. Based in Birmingham, England, the group is run by Jim Meehan, who retired from teaching religious education in St Edmund Campion Catholic School, a Roman Catholic institution in Erdington, now a suburb of Birmingham.
Southern Africa has a devastating HIV/AIDS Pandemic. In the Transkei up to 40% of young people are HIV positive. 1 in 3 pregnancies are HIV positive. The rate of infection is rising sharply.
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