Religion And Aids Treatment In Africa

Author : Hansjörg Dilger,Thera Rasing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317068204

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Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa by Hansjörg Dilger,Thera Rasing Pdf

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.

Author : Rijk van Dijk,Hansjörg Dilger,Marian Burchardt,Thera Rasing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1409456692

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Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa by Rijk van Dijk,Hansjörg Dilger,Marian Burchardt,Thera Rasing Pdf

Some chapters were first presented at a 2009 international symposium in Lusaka, Gambia.

Author : Felicitas Becker,Wenzel Geissler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047442691

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Aids and Religious Practice in Africa by Felicitas Becker,Wenzel Geissler Pdf

This volume explores, through anthropological and historical case studies from different parts of Africa, how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS.

Author : Jenny Trinitapoli,Alexander Weinreb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199831555

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Religion and AIDS in Africa by Jenny Trinitapoli,Alexander Weinreb Pdf

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

Author : Jenny Trinitapoli,Alexander Weinreb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199714605

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Religion and AIDS in Africa by Jenny Trinitapoli,Alexander Weinreb Pdf

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

Author : Marian Burchardt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137477774

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Faith in the Time of AIDS by Marian Burchardt Pdf

This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity.

Author : Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : IND:30000110602459

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A Faith-based Response to HIV in Southern Africa by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Pdf

While there is a general acknowledgement within the church itself that the Church was initially slow to respond to the magnitude of the problem of HIV and AIDS, during the recent past, as the effects of HIV and AIDS within the congregations and communities of the church have become progressively more evident, the Catholic Church has emerged as an increasingly central role-player in a range of initiatives to combat the pandemic. This publication describes the work of the 'Choose to Care' initiative and the way it has been successfully scaled-up through the diocesan and parish network so that programmes are formed by local needs but work with common guidelines and can draw on central support.

Author : Azetsop, Jacquineau
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336715

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HIV & AIDS In Africa by Azetsop, Jacquineau Pdf

A comprehensive look at the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, this volume features contributions from noted scholars from across the continent and beyond, providing badly needed social analysis and theological reflection from an African perspective.

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9781932792829

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Facing a Pandemic by Elias Kifon Bongmba Pdf

The central argument is that the theological motif of the image of God invites a prophetic critique of the social environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives and calls for a praxis of love and compassion.

Author : Marian Burchardt,Amy Patterson,Louise Mubanda Rasmussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317381594

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The Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements by Marian Burchardt,Amy Patterson,Louise Mubanda Rasmussen Pdf

This book explores the nature, significance and consequences of the religious activism surrounding AIDS in Africa. While African religion was relatively marginal in inspiring or contributing to AIDS activism during the early days of the epidemic, this situation has changed dramatically. In order to account for these changes, contributors provide answers to pressing questions. How does the entrance of religion into public debates about AIDS affect policymaking and implementation, church-state relations, and religion itself? How do religious actors draw on and reconfigure forms of transnational connectivity? How do resource flows from development and humanitarian aid that religious actors may access then affect relationships of power and authority in African societies? How does religious mobilization on AIDS reflect contestation over identity, cultural membership, theology, political participation, and citizenship? Addressing these questions, the authors draw on social movement theories to explore the role of religious identities, action frames, political opportunity structures, and resource mobilization in African religions’ reaction to the AIDS epidemic. The book’s findings are rooted in fieldwork conducted in Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Mozambique, among a variety of religious organizations. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

Author : Isabel Apawo Phiri,Bev Haddad,Madipoane Joyce Masenya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000100478027

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African Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith Communities by Isabel Apawo Phiri,Bev Haddad,Madipoane Joyce Masenya Pdf

The book has 3 parts: re-reading the Bible, challenging faith communities and practical resources for faith communities. It is the fruit of a conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians on "Sex, Stigma and HIV/AIDS: African Women Challenging Religion, Culture and Social Practices."

Author : Teresia M. Hinga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015082636120

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Women, Religion and HIV/AIDS in Africa by Teresia M. Hinga Pdf

Author : Roberto Morozzo della Rocca
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781647124311

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Sant'Egidio's Dream by Roberto Morozzo della Rocca Pdf

The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies’ “afro pessimism” Until this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a preferable alternative to prevention-plus-treatment, which would be costly and impractical in Africa, or would benefit only the prosperous and well-connected. Sant'Egidio’s Dream argues that this initial, failed approach to AIDS in African countries reflects a global moral blindness to the imperative to save lives–which was not lost on the Community of Sant’Egidio, an Italian, Catholic social movement rooted in “the gospel and friendship” and present in 70 countries. Drawing on two decades of peacemaking and humanitarian experience in Africa, the movement grasped the evidence that HIV, if treated, does not lead to AIDS and to death–and saw that treatment gives hope in Africa just as it does in the developed world. By enabling large numbers of people to live with a chronic disease, and involving family and neighbors in free and effective care, it offers a dream of a society surviving and even thriving in spite of HIV. In 2002, Sant Egidio established the DREAM (Drug Resource Enhancement Against AIDS and Malnutrition) project, a community-based approach to the AIDS crisis, rooted in medicine, epidemiology, and public health, that has proven effective in ten countries where it has been implemented–and has emerged as a model for healthcare in the global South.

Author : Michael Czerny
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789966081872

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Aids in Africa by Michael Czerny Pdf

The Catholic Church, from the beginning of AIDS in Africa, has been active in alleviation and treatment, in prevention, consolation and spreading hope. Now "to interpret the present time" is to consider this complex issue seriously in the light of our scriptures, faith, tradition and practice. That is what the essays in this volume strive to do. (back cover).

Author : Gideon Byamugisha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015051570060

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Journeys of Faith by Gideon Byamugisha Pdf

Looks at how churches in Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa challenge public and official denial of HIV and AIDS; confront stigma, discrimination and judgementalism; educate communities about HIV/AIDS and sexual health; support orphans; campaign for political action; and, provide social support, counselling and health care.