Fourteen years ago, the UN Security Council recognised the HIV/Aids pandemic as a global health emergency. Last month, it afforded similar status to ebola in West Africa, where the Church has been using its considerable experience of dealing with HIV/Aids in countering the disease Last month, I was in New York for a meeting at the United Nations connected to my work with Caritas Internationalis. It was the week that the UN General Assembly opened and my meeting was in the vicinity of the “Glass Palace” of UN headquarters. People did not walk, they ran, each giving the impression that the future of the world depended only on him or her. Sirens screeched and streets were closed as heads of state arrived one after the other. From New York, I proceeded directly to Monrovia, Liber