 The Constantinian Order and the Royal Order of Francis I internationally and nationally support major initiatives concerned with the prevention of cancer, as well as care for cancer victims. In March 2002 in Rome, the First Meeting on the Prevention and Treatment of Colon Cancer was launched by the Constantinian Order under the High Patronage of Pope John Paul II, the President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and the United European Gastroenterology Federation. The campaign aims to support and encourage researchers, increase public awareness of the illness and promote ultimate prevention.
His Eminence Mario Francesco, Cardinal Pompedda, Grand Prior of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order, chaired the Organising Committee. His Holiness Pope John Paul II (right) received the pri
ncipal participants of the conference in a private audience held at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City including TRH The Duke and Duchess of Castro.
The dynastic orders have also launched in February 2002 another major charitable and hospitaller programme in conjunction with the National Association against AIDS of the Campania region, and the Association of Wives of Italian Doctors of Naples.
The aim of the initiative is to raise much needed funds for the completion, in partnership with the Comune di Napoli, of the first Constantinian Home in the South of Italy for HIV-positive children. The creation of the first Constantinian Home in the Secondigliano district of Naples allows mothers and HIV-positive children to remain together during their treatment who up until this initiative would have been separated.
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