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HIV, AIDS, and the Church: Challenged or Changed?

This presentation explores how HIV affects the immune system, the realities of HIV and AIDS, transmission methods, and the role of churches in the AIDS pandemic. It also highlights the need to sensitize, mobilize, and network to support those affected by HIV.

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HIV, AIDS, and the Church: Challenged or Changed?

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  1. CABSA Christian AIDS Bureau for Southern Africa

  2. HIV and the Church, Challenged or Changed?

  3. HIV and AIDS Lets check our knowledge

  4. UMANMMUNE DEFICIENCYIRUS H I V CQUIREDMMUNEEFICIENCYYNDROME A I D S

  5. How does HIV attack the immune system Slide 15

  6. Your body is protected White Blood Cells fight disease and germs for your body.

  7. The Struggle Strong diseases make you sick, but the white blood cells usually win in the end.

  8. HIV attacks HIV is a VERY strong germ that attacks the white blood cells themselves.

  9. The Struggle - AIDS the victor After a very long struggle lasting years, HIV kills most of your white blood cells, leaving your body unprotected.

  10. No protection Many other (secondary) diseases attack and kill the body: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

  11. Does the virus really exist? • The virus is real – • We can photograph it • We can measure antibodies • We can measure its effect • Scientists do this in a laboratory

  12. The situation is not really as serious as people make it sound. In South Africa 1000 deaths per day 1500 new infections per day

  13. AIDS is a disease of poor people South Africa’s wealthiest were the only class in which married couples had higher prevalence rates than their unmarried counterparts. Olive Shisana, HSRC

  14. I am Safe – I’m Married "For most women, the major risk factor for HIV infection is being married.” Elizabeth Reid and Michael Bailey

  15. I don’t want to share a room or a house with someone who is HIV positive – I might become infected

  16. Ways of transmitting HIV Sexual activity Mother to baby Bloodproducts

  17. I can be infected by a toilet seat or shared cutlery or by mosquitoes

  18. How HIV is not transmitted Slide 51

  19. Salivary Gland Stomach

  20. There is nothing I can do to stop me becoming infected – if it is going to happen, it is going to happen

  21. “Risky behaviour is actually a symptom of a greater problem: a perceived lack of future.” Oil Reach Out

  22. bstinence e faithfull A B C D ondoms isease control

  23. afer practices ccess S A V E CT ducation & empowerment

  24. What role(s) are Churches playing in the AIDS pandemic? • Warning against sin – inflating judgmentalism • Portraying PLWAs as sinners – fuelling stigma & secrecy • Burying the dead – only reacting • Keeping silent – promoting apathy • Helping “out there” – promoting denial • Some care actions do take place • SSDIM

  25. Why do Churches react in this way? • Ignorance / do not know how to help • Too busy • Wrong conceptions • “Simple solutions” paradigm • Fear of the truth • Gender issues and vulnerability • Embarrassment • Focussing on “sex-sins” • Theology … inward, pietistic, repentance first, judgement, privatised salvation, • Not holistic world view (Old Testament SHALOM)

  26. CABSA can help your congregations to become “Caring Christian Communities ministering reconciliation and hope in a world with HIV

  27. How can we help the Churches? • Sensitize • Mobilize • Network • Information

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