Dear Colleagues, Greetings and salutations from Kenya. Perhaps this venue, i.e. Africa, does not spring to mind as a focus for science or research so to dispel that notion let me update you and ask your prayers. 1. First of all to orient you to our project: NYUMBANI is a hospice for HIV+ orphans (at the moment, 49) and a fledgling outreach Foster Care Program of 16 and growing daily. while I am a member of the Maryland province, the hospice is quite independent of the Society (except for a FACSI grant to buy property) and has its own lay Board of Directors, staff of 40, and funding sources dependent on God's Providence alone, i.e. no major donors. We are solvent, but World Bank and USAID have turned us down but gave a total of $70 million for Kenyan elephants and wildlife! With the help of a highly qualified and well published Kenya virologist (trained at U.C. Davis), we were finally able to set up a state of the art lab on the premises. Though still limited, we can do PCR, FACSCOUNT (CD4 AND CD8), viral cultures, and haemograms. Fortunately, we are associated with a world known paediatric HIV researcher at the Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome and have entered into the first stages of a collaborative study using the "cocktail". We also expect to do some very promising studies for viral eradication on our own. 2. I'll be giving a short paper at the National Council on International Health anniversary meeting in Washington in June then another one at the International AIDS meeting in Geneva in July. Both concern the HIV/AIDS hospice and its survival. 3. I was particularly happy to see that in the light of a Peace and Justice framework, the discussions during the last international meeting brought out that dimension because that is precisely what we are trying to do. The children we serve are unquestionably the most vulnerable, and forgotten segment of society today - worse than refugees, war victims, etc. because they have no significant life expectancy and have been orphaned and discarded. Finally, I ask your prayers for the children and all the above.  A. D'Agostino S.J.