Vision: A Community of Hope to bring the compassionate Love of God to people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS and to have an HIV-free ASIA-PACIFIC. Mission: Facilitate the empowerment of Catholic Organization in the ASIA-PACIFIC to
- Communicate value-based information and capacity building on HIV/AIDS and related issues;
- Deliver available, accessible, collaborative services;
- An advoca
te the importance of human dignity, solidarity as part of our work. Catholic Asia-Pacific Coalition on HIV/AIDS or CAPCHA is the Catholic Organization working in the field of HIV/AIDS in the ASIA and PACIFIC region that have been working in the field of HIV/AIDS at the forefront decades ago. The idea for a global Catholic HIV/AIDS Network has first emerged in 2006. Catholic Committee on HIV/AIDS (CCHA) under the auspices of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Thailand (CBCT) organized a workshop on 'The Challenges of the HIV and AIDS to the Catholic Church in Asia and Pacific' on May 12 - 15, 2010 at Camillian Pastoral Center in Bangkok. Almost a hundred people from 38 Catholic organizations in 15 countries of Asia and the Pacific took part in this workshop. This workshop has appointed country, sub-regional (South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific) and regional persons. Contact persons of the 4 sub-regions form a core team to represent Catholic organizations in Asia and the Pacific working on HIV/AIDS. The second meeting of Catholic organizations working on HIV/AIDS took place on June 28 - July 1, 2011 at the same place in Bangkok with 49 participants from 15 countries taking part. In this meeting, Catholic Asia-Pacific Coalition on HIV/AIDS (CAPCHA) is formally launched by the Archbishop Giovanni d'Aiello, Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand, Cambodia, and Apostolic Delegate to Myanmar and Laos.
