The Approach Of Churches And Church Related Organizations To Hiv Aids Programmes Based On Case Studies In Ethiopia And Southern India

Author : Andrea Schirmer-Müller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783638522816

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The Approach of Churches and Church-Related Organizations to HIV/AIDS Programmes: Based on Case Studies in Ethiopia and Southern India by Andrea Schirmer-Müller Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,4, University of Bremen, 25+20Online entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (hereafter, AIDS) pandemic has changed many parts of the world in just a short time despite efforts aimed at controlling it. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (hereafter, HIV)/AIDS is predominantly a sexually transmitted disease that causes illness and death. The groups most at risk are those between 15 and 49 years, often described as the “sexually active”, who are the most reproductive people in society and the backbone of the productive forces of any country. The particularities of this disease are not only the large number of victims, but also the suffering of those affected. AIDS is related to two deep dimensions of the human existence: sexuality and death. The impact of HIV/AIDS is multi-dimensional as the disease affects social, economic, political, psychological, cultural, ethical and religious areas. Additionally, the connection of sexuality and death is often linked to the questions of guilt and innocence, chance and causality. Wherever such deep dimensions of human existence are raised, religion may be called upon. The questions of the why and whereto are not purely questions of medical science but often involve transcendence and therefore religion. HIV/AIDS and the approach of churches and church-related organizations is a complex issue. In many countries, congregations and parishes are seen to be in the forefront of effective contributions to sexual education and prevention, especially in the form of care and support programmes. AIDS thus mobilizes churches as healing communities. On the other hand, churches are often accused of being a sleeping giant, of promoting stigmatization and discrimination based on fear and prejudices, of reducing issues related to AIDS to simplistic, rigid sexual and moral judgements. [...]

Author : Kathryn Pitkin Derose,David E. Kanouse,David P. Kennedy,Kavita Patel,Alice Taylor
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780833049841

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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America by Kathryn Pitkin Derose,David E. Kanouse,David P. Kennedy,Kavita Patel,Alice Taylor Pdf

Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance their efforts, both independently and in collaboration with other organizations, such as government ministries of health.

Author : Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher : UNAIDS Office
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000110618943

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A Report of a Theological Workshop Focusing on HIV- and AIDS-related Stigma by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Pdf

Churches and other faith-based organizations continue to play an important part in responding to the AIDS epidemic. This report of a workshop held in Windhoek, Namibia explores some issues in thinking theologically about AIDS and stigma. Participants were from different Christian traditions and countries; future workshops will cover Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist perspectives.

Author : Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780821397411

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Investing in Communities Achieves Results by Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia Pdf

Investing in Communities Achieves Results fills an important gap in the global knowledge on community level results and resources related to HIV and AIDS. While communities, in spite of their limited resources, have played a key role in the HIV/AIDS response, their contributions and innovative approaches to prevention, treatment, care, and support have not always been the focus of systematic and rigorous evaluations. To address this deficit, a series of studies-including evaluations in Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe-were undertaken over a three-year period (early 2009 to early 2012), helping to build a robust pool of evidence on the effects of community-based activities and programs. A unique feature of this multicountry evaluation was the collaboration between two international organizations (the World Bank and the United Kingdom's Department for International Development) and a major civil society network (the U.K. Consortium on AIDS and International Development). Other attributes that contributed to the successful outcome were the sustained consultation process with civil society and stakeholders at the local, national, and global levels, and the collaboration among high-caliber, multi-disciplinary researcher teams. The book's findings are promising. At varying levels, depending on the country context, the HIV response in communities was shown to improve knowledge and behavior and increase the use of health services- and even decrease HIV incidence. Evidence on social transformation was more mixed, with community groups found to be effective only in some settings. Each study in the evaluation provides a partial view of how communities shape the local response; however, taken together they constitute a significant pool of rigorous evidence on the contributions of communities, community groups, and civil society to the national and global HIV and AIDS response. The studies suggest that communities have produced significant results at the local level, which contribute to outcomes at the national level.

Author : Gideon Byamugisha
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281065356

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ISG 44: Church Communities Confronting HIV and AIDS by Gideon Byamugisha Pdf

A new title in the ISG series to help Christians and churches around the world meet the enormous challenges that HIV/AIDS presents, particularly in African countries.

Author : Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Gideon Byamugisha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Author : Michael S. Northcott
Publisher : CTPI (Edinburgh)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Aids, Sex and the Scottish Churches by Michael S. Northcott Pdf

Author : Christo Greyling
Publisher : Ciir
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122682458

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Poverty, HIV and AIDS by Christo Greyling Pdf

Author : Georges Tiendrebeogo,Michael Buykx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UOM:39015069143355

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Faith-based Organisations and HIV/AIDS Prevention and Impact Mitigation in Africa by Georges Tiendrebeogo,Michael Buykx Pdf

Author : Musa W. Dube Shomanah
Publisher : World Council of Churches
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : IND:30000092855075

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HIV/AIDS and the Curriculum by Musa W. Dube Shomanah Pdf

In response to HIV/AIDS and its consequences, this collection of essays by young African scholars proposes a pattern of Christian education designed to equip churches for ministry in a time of crisis. Theological institutions are urged to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic through the academic disciplines of ministerial preparation as well as in continuing education opportunities, short courses for laity and training-of-trainers seminars for parish workers. Practical guides for classroom discussion are provided in the areas of health and human sexuality, biblical interpretation, theology, counseling, gender perspectives, project design and management. The book ends with a detailed "HIV/AIDS Curriculum for Theological Institutions in Africa", which can be adapted easily for other regions.

Author : Thomas E. Novotny,Dominic Haazen,Olusoji Adeyi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0821354833

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HIV/Aids in Southeastern Europe by Thomas E. Novotny,Dominic Haazen,Olusoji Adeyi Pdf

Author : Vhumani Magezi
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920109912

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HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Pastoral Care and Counselling by Vhumani Magezi Pdf

This publication carefully describes the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how it is understood in some African contexts, which hampers prevention initiatives. It also delineates the complex nature of the poverty and HIV/AIDS interplay. To address the situation, a family systems practical ecclesiological theology and approach to HIV/AIDS ministry, and a pastoral counselling approach that derives from and is sensitive to the African context, are proposed.

Author : Miguel Munoz-Laboy,Jonathan Garcia,Joyce Moon-Howard,Patrick A. Wilson,Richard Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317643739

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Religious Responses to HIV and AIDS by Miguel Munoz-Laboy,Jonathan Garcia,Joyce Moon-Howard,Patrick A. Wilson,Richard Parker Pdf

Religious institutions shaped the ways individuals, communities and societies responded to HIV and AIDS since the 1980s. This book draws on research studies ranging in context from sites in sub-Saharan Africa to New York City in the USA to examine the complexity of responding to the epidemic both globally and locally. Religious systems of meaning, practices and institutions have been central to the articulation of projects for social change and inversely sometime strongly resistant to change in diverse institutional responses to HIV and AIDS. Sometimes, religious movements provided powerful forces for community mobilisation in response to the social vulnerability, economic exclusion and health problems associated with HIV. In other contexts, religious cultures have reproduced values and practices that have seriously impeded more effective approaches to mitigate the epidemic. By highlighting these complex and sometimes contradictory social processes, this book provides new insights about the potential for religious institutions to address the HIV epidemic more effectively. More broadly, it shows how research can be done on religion in the area of global public health, showing how civil society organizations shape opportunities for health promotion: a crucial and new area of global public health research. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Public Health.

Author : Amy Stephenson Patterson
Publisher : Firstforumpress
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39076002964877

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The Church and AIDS in Africa by Amy Stephenson Patterson Pdf

This book explores the role of the Christian church, broadly and diversely defined as both institutions and communities of believers (although the focus of the analysis is on institutional behaviors), in the politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The author creates a typology of church AIDS actions--no response; early, narrow response; early, broad response; late, narrow response; and late, broad response--and seeks explanations for where churches fall within this typology in terms of institutional resources, organizational structures, relations with the state, and global networks.