HIV and AIDS Resources
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LWF Resources
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Grace, Care and Justice – LWF-produced handbook for HIV and AIDS work.
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Compassion, Conversion, Care: Responding as Churches to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic - LWF action plan motivating, strengthening and supporting churches in their HIV and AIDS work
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PositHIVe Church– Lutheran World Information issue focusing on HIV and AIDS
- AIDS Calls Us to Be Community - a statement by various LWF member churches in Latin America. Recommended by church leaders in the region for further study.
- Breaking the Silence– African Lutheran church leaders' commitment to destigmatizing HIV and AIDS and building healing communities
- Bound Together– a message from European Lutherans calling the churches to action at all levels of society
- Covenant of Life – a statement of commitment by Asian Lutheran church leaders
- Justice, Conversion and Integration - a statement of commitment by Latin America and Caribbean church leaders
Contact Claudia Hoffmann-Denarié, LWF HIV and AIDS Desk, for more information.
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
- Exploring Solutions: How to Talk about HIV Prevention in the Church - guide facilitating open, accurate and compassionate discussion in the churches about preventing HIV.
Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa
- Africa Praying - resource book with HIV and AIDS-sensitive sermon ideas and orders of service for a variety of contexts within church life. For use by clergy and laity.
Strategies for Hope
- Called to Care toolkit - six practical, action-oriented booklets about HIV issues designed for use by churches and communities, targeting sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Includes:
The Child Within: Connecting with children who have experienced grief and loss
Community Action: Training guidelines on community-based issues related to HIV and AIDS
Pastoral Action: Training guidelines on the pastoral aspects of the HIV epidemic
Time to Talk: A guide to family life in the age of AIDS
Making it Happen: A guide to help your congregation do HIV/AIDS work
Positive Voices: Religious leaders living with, or personally affected by, HIV and AIDS
- What Can I Do? - a 49-minute film about Gideon Byamugisha, the first African minister to disclose his HIV-positive status, challenging people of faith to think more deeply and creatively about their responses to the global HIV pandemic.
