Faith & AIDS 2012

Have you written something about AIDS 2012 and your experience there? Why not share this with us and we can post it on this website for others to read too. For example, here is a link to an article that Marjorie Clarke from the Church of Scotland wrote on her website after attending the Interfaith Pre-Conference and [...]

If you attended the Interfaith Pre-Conference to AIDS 2012, please make sure you fill out the evaluation available at www.iacfaith.net/preconference. The evaluation can be completed via a online survey or downloaded and submitted by email or post as a word document. The deadline for responses is 30 September 2012.

In the world of children living with HIV, there are haves and have-nots. By the latest count, half a million children have access to medications that can keep them alive. Two million do not. The huge imbalance in the numbers is clear. But these World Health Organization estimates for 2009 also conceal complex dilemmas. “What’s [...]

Jon Pattee, Assistant Director for Media Relations for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has posted a blog about the recent International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Read his post here on the the LIRS blog.

An Evangelical Lutheran Church in America youth delegate who discusses how “HIV Positive” is the only thing society sees. Read her post on the LWF youth blog.

As AIDS 2012 drew to a close in Washington, D.C., faith-based participants reflected on what the HIV pandemic has taught the faith community — and what we still need to learn.

Washington DC, July 27, 2012 – There was good news at the International AIDS Conference this year.  A cure, or at least a vaccine, seems less distant. Last year the number of people receiving life-giving antiretroviral treatment rose 20 percent to 8 million. And women–who make up the majority of people living with HIV–were everywhere [...]

The Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer asks what people of faith will do to sustain an effective response to HIV. Read The Washington Post blog item.

A Lutheran World Federation youth delegate from Zambia tells her story and calls churches to end discrimination. Read her post on the LWF Youth blog.

The Rev. Dr. Veikko Munyika, the coordinator of the HIV & AIDS Desk for The Lutheran World Federation, works with member churches on their response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Rev. Munyika is a native of Namibia, a country devastated by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. In 2002, at the peak of the disease [...]