Around the world, an estimated 5 million
people became infected with HIV/AIDS in 2001 - 800,000 of them
children.
Over the next decade, unless an effective treatment is found,
many of these will join the ranks of the over 20 million who
have died of HIV/AIDS since the first clinical evidence of the
disease was discovered in 1981.
Africa has been particularly hard-hit by HIV/AIDS. Life expectancy
in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to fall to 30-years-old within
the decade due to AIDS deaths.
Faith groups are among those battling these statistics through
educational programs, missionary work and financial contributions.
See what faith groups and others are doing to combat HIV/AIDS.
World AIDS Day 2003
Glimmers
of hope, but miles to go on AIDS
Funding hasn't kept pace with global awareness of the problem
and its spread.
Take
Action: Stop AIDS
Sojourners asks you to take a moment to urge President Bush
to deliver on his promises in the State of the Union Address
by proposing a budget for 2005 which will fund the United States'
fair share of the world's need for AIDS funding without taking
the money from other health and development programs.
World AIDS Day
Five people worldwide die of AIDS every minute of every day. HIV has hit every corner of the globe, infecting more than 42 million men, women and children, 5 million of them last year alone.
CWS Observes World AIDS Day
As the world marks another World AIDS Day this December 1, we call on people of faith everywhere to join in prayer with and for individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS. We pray also that each of us will realize that AIDS affects us all. We must own this together as a common challenge.
World
AIDS Day
On December 1, 2003, we mark World AIDS Day, a day when the
entire world community recognizes the impact of AIDS and its
effect on the global family.
Ecumenical Alliance Advocacy: Observing World AIDS Day
Since 1984 December 1st has been the designated date for expressing concern for and solidarity with people living with HIV/AIDS.World AIDS Day 2003 focuses for the second year in a row on the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS. The Global Poster Campaign of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance has also had this as its focus.
World AIDS Day 2003 Meditation
In the ancient world where Jesus walked and talked, most people accepted that illness and disabilities were evidence of God's punishment. They believed that those who were sick, blind, deaf, or lame were being punished for their sins (or their parents').
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AIDS Worldwide
On
front line of AIDS in Russia
An industrial city northwest of Moscow struggles as AIDS hits
a broader population. more...
Reluctantly,
Russia confronts AIDS
Some 1 million Russians are estimated to be HIV positive - but
officials have been slow to boost funding. more...
Messer
views book as 'wake-up call' to AIDS crisis
With 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and 7,000
dying every day from the disease, the Christian church's failure
to take serious action puts its very soul at stake. more...
Asia
looks to Thailand's AIDS success story
Health workers train at Thai university after HIV rates fall
by 83 percent. more...
AIDS
follows Afghanistan's 'miniglobalization'
As a massive influx of people spills in, Afghanistan struggles.
more...
Fight
HIV with straight talk
The new White House and congressional initiatives to stem the
HIV epidemic, which have yet to be reconciled, lack the straight
talk that is vital if millions of lives are to be spared. more...
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in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization
by Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside
This groundbreaking book presents compelling data and research which reveals the shocking social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on a global scale. Barnett and Whiteside-experts in the field for over 15 years-argue that it is vital to not only look at the disease in terms of prevention and treatment, but to also consider consequences which affect households, communities, companies, governments, and countries. Buy it |
Why
won’t pastors preach about AIDS?
Since 1999, I have traveled the United States advocating faith-based
AIDS prevention and intervention efforts. I am encouraged that
faith communities are beginning to confront HIV/AIDS. However,
for every AIDS ministry, there is a congregation that has yet
to acknowledge the epidemic is in its midst. more...
AIDS
in Thailand
Church’s
silence on HIV/AIDS spells death, leaders warn
More than 200 people from black United Methodist churches gathered
in the nation’s capital to discuss how the church’s
silence around HIV/AIDS is killing people. more...
The
"Little Flowers" of Lamsai
The setting looks like a luxury resort but death is part of
the daily life in the Franciscan run retreat center and AIDS
hospice in Lamsai, Thailand. more...
The
U.S. and AIDS
There are now an estimated 40 million cases of HIV
infection. But this past week, in a report to the CIA, the National
Intelligence Council said there could be 100 million cases by
the year 2010. more...
AIDS:
A Worsening Crisis Challenges Church and Society
HIV/AIDS is our disease, a disease of the human family. For
many of us, this fact may be difficult to accept fully. Because
AIDS first spread in the homosexual community in the United
States and also among those using drugs, some of us see AIDS
as their disease. more...
Outside
the Camp? Leprosy, AIDS and the Bible
The client at the HIV/AIDS clinic startled the visiting students.
"In society, people treat us like lepers," he said,
"particularly people from the Church." more...
AIDS:
An Unthinkable Reality
Modern leprosy it's called. Plague. Catastrophe. History’s worst
pandemic. Descriptors for the worldwide AIDS epidemic cannot
adequately portray the scope, the suffering, the hopelessness,
the helplessness of the afflicted and their families.
more...
Making
a Home at Joseph's House
Tucked back in the quiet streets of Adams Morgan in Washington,
D.C., Joseph's House looks much like every other house on its
block. Its nondescript face belies the extraordinary mission
of Joseph's House: to provide a home for homeless men with third-
or end-stage AIDS. more...
Accepting
God's challenge: ministering to those with HIV/AIDS
Jack Plimpton is the executive director of the Episcopal HIV/AIDS
Ministries in Los Angeles and founder of Project New Hope. To
date, Jack and his staff have raised $23 million to build apartment
housing for people with HIV/AIDS. more...
Living
with AIDS: A Personal Journey
I vividly recall a night in December of January about a
year ago. It was 6:00 P.M., very cold and getting dark. I was
waiting for a bus to go home, standing behind a tree for protection
from the wind. I had recently lost a friend to AIDS. more...
Is
AIDS a Noble Disease?
About a half-century ago, there was a spate of movies in which
the heroine spent the whole time dying of a mysterious, but
fatal illness. The primary symptom of this disease was swooning
at dramatic moments and lounging around on pillows. more...
HIV
Prevention Needs for Adults Over 50
More than 10% of all new AIDS cases in the United States occur
in people over the age of 50. Yet there is a common misperception
that older adults are not at risk for HIV infection. The reality
is that some do have unprotected sex and/or use drugs. more...
Sermon
for World AIDS Day (First Sunday in Advent)
This is the first Sunday of Advent, and while the secular world
around us trivializes the coming birth of our Savior with garish
displays of commercialism, we Anglicans have a time-honored
tradition of taking Advent seriously...This also happens to
be the Sunday of the week in which World AIDS Day is celebrated.
Death and AIDS. Not exactly "Silver Bells" sentimentality,
right? more...
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Faith Group
Responses
American
Baptist Church
Episcopal
Church, Episcopal Peace and Justice Ministries
Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America
Greek
Orthodox Church in America
National
Council of Churches
Presbyterian
Church (USA)
Reformed
Church in America
Seventh-day
Adventists
Southern
Baptist Convention
United
Methodist Church
United
Methodist Committee on Relief: AIDS in Africa - Heartbreak and
Hope
Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism
Union
of American Hebrew Congregations
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