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Since AIDS was first recognized in 1981, the disease has killed more than an estimated 25 million people. Over 40 million people were living with HIV in 2006, including more than 2 million children. Addressing the AIDS pandemic and ministering to its victims has become an important issue for Christians throughout the world.

Christianity Today editorials on HIV and AIDS

Close Encounters with HIV
Local churches should network in the war against the virus.
A Christianity Today editorial | (Jan. 19, 2006)

The AIDS Team
Principled collaboration by churches is urgently needed to help defeat HIV.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (August 1, 2006)

A Strategy for Progress
Unless prevention of HIV/AIDS becomes a clear priority, things are only going to get worse.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (May 2, 2003)

Civics for Gay Activists
We may see more die from HIV/AIDS because gay activists are intolerant.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (April 10, 2003)

Killing a Pandemic
The church may be best equipped to deal HIV/AIDS a crippling blow.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (November 18, 2002)

AIDS Prevention

'Abstinence Brings Dignity'
Traveling in Africa, First Lady Laura Bush speaks in favor of faith-based HIV prevention.
Isaac Phiri in Zambia | (June 29, 2007)

Banking on Breast Milk
One ministry's unusual approach to saving AIDS orphans in Africa.
Isaac Phiri in South Africa | (December 15, 2006)

A Strategy for Progress
Unless prevention of HIV/AIDS becomes a clear priority, things are only going to get worse.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (May 2, 2003)

Prevention Wars
Christian activists question Global Fund's AIDS strategies.
(August 1, 2006)

Why We're Losing the War Against HIV/AIDS
Harvard's Edward C. Green says health officials undermine abstinence and fidelity programs in Africa.
(March 7, 2005)

As Complicated as ABC
Condoms and abstinence can both play a role in AIDS prevention.
(Feb. 04, 2004)

Beyond Condoms
To alleviate AIDS, we must sharpen our moral vision.
(June 10, 2003)

ABC vs. HIV
Christians back abstinence-fidelity plan against deadly virus.
(March 10, 2003)

Spain: Christians fear AIDS media campaign may ignore how people get the disease.
"Yet Christian leaders say stigma, not neglect, is the bigger problem"
(September 9, 2002)

Fidelity Urged to Fight AIDS
(July 12, 1999)

Global AIDS

Finally, Some Overdue Good News in the Battle Against AIDS
"Global slowing" is about as good as it gets when you're talking about this disease.
Dale Hanson Bourke, Religion News Service | (June 1, 2006)

Global Death Rates May Skyrocket
Threats of AIDS, water depletion, and shrinking cropland could send death rates soaring early in the next century, according to a trio of World watch Institute researchers.
(May 24, 1999)

AIDS and Africa

Q&A: Kay Warren
Learning to live in three worlds.
Interview by Timothy C. Morgan | (November 2, 2007)

HIV/AIDS: S.L.O.W. It Down, or S.T.O.P. It?
Saddleback's Kay Warren offers a dual framework for fighting the virus.
by Kay Warren | (November 2, 2007)

Postcard from Africa
Where hope and despair live side by side.
(September 1, 2006)

Sweeter Dreams
HIV infections decline in Zimbabwe.
(April 1, 2006)

Cry, the Beloved Continent
Don't let AIDS steal African children's future.
(March 04, 2004)

South Africa: Dying Alone
Baptist women seek out and care for ashamed, abandoned AIDS patients.
(July 9, 2001)

Kenyan President Suggests Hanging for 'Knowingly' Infecting Others with AIDS
Church organizations criticize use of capital punishment as solution to epidemic.
(July 1, 2001)

South Africa: Few to Receive AIDS Medicines
"Pharmaceutical companies drop suit against South Africa, but problems remain."
Ecumenical News International | (June 11, 2001)

Zambia's Churches Win Fight Against Anti-AIDS Ads
Church leaders are concerned that condom promotion encourages promiscuity
(January 1, 2001)

Mandela De Klerk and Tutu Join to Fight AIDS
South Africa's men of peace call for end of silence and stigmatization.
(December 1, 2000)

Kenyan Bishop Calls on Widows to Take Stand Against Wife Inheritance
Joter, polygamy customs criticized for contributing to spreading HIV.
(August 1, 2000)

Have We Become Too Busy With Death?
As 4,900 people die each day from AIDS, African Christians ask themselves:
(February 7, 2000)

AIDS and India

India: Pastors as Gravediggers
Christians hope to break the silence and overcome Asia's prejudice against people with AIDS.
(August 7, 2000)

Indian Church Steps Up Education Programs To Deal With Threat Of AIDS
Ten percent of those living with AIDS live in India
(August 1, 2001)

AIDS and Bono

Bono's American Prayer
"The world's biggest rock star tours the heartland, talking more openly about his faith as he recruits Christians in the fight against AIDS in Africa."
(March 1, 2003)

Rock Evangelist: Bono Tells Christians: Don't Neglect Africa
He urges evangelicals to take a lead in fighting AIDS and poverty.
(April 22, 2002)

Jerry Thacker

Civics for Gay Activists
We may see more die from HIV/AIDS because gay activists are intolerant.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (April 10, 2003)

Jerry Thacker: Politics Muddies Fight Against AIDS
The politics of homosexuality has made it easier to battle the disease in foreign countries than domestically, says a former nominee to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS
(February 1, 2003)

African-American Churches and AIDS

Books & Culture Corner
An Open Letter to the U. S. Black Religious, Intellectual, and Political Leadership Regarding AIDS and the Sexual Holocaust in Africa
(January 1, 2000)

AIDS: African Americans Focus on AIDS Outreach
Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS gains observation
(April 24, 2000)

Kenya: U.S. Blacks Preach Abstinence Gospel
Mission workers testify that Christ helps control sexual urges.
(April 1, 2002)

The Church and AIDS

Bush Discusses Iraq and AIDS With Pope in First Meeting
At Easter message, Benedict XVI had lamented, "nothing positive comes out of Iraq."
Francis X. Rocca, Religion News Service | (June 11, 2007)

The AIDS Team
Principled collaboration by churches is urgently needed to help defeat HIV.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (August 1, 2006)

Close Encounters with HIV
Local churches should network in the war against the virus.
A Christianity Today editorial | (Jan. 19, 2006)

Rift Opens Among Evangelicals on AIDS Funding
Dobson targets Global Fund, which helps Salvation Army, Youth for Christ, and World Vision.
By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service | (June 2, 2006)

The Church Awakens
Christians make AIDS fight a high priority
(January 2005)

Confronting Moral Horror
It's a witness even the most jaded find impressive.
(Feb. 04, 2004)

Jesus Freak
"Franklin Graham remains unashamed of the Name, despite public criticism. No generic prayers for him"
(November 18, 2002)

Killing a Pandemic
The church may be best equipped to deal HIV/AIDS a crippling blow.
A Christianity Today editorial. | (November 18, 2002)

Speaking Out: Mercy Impaired
Let's shock the world by reversing our apathy toward African sufferers
(September 3, 2001)

Survey of AIDS Infection Among Priests Shocks U.S. Catholics
Kansas City Star says priests dying at much higher rate than American population
(February 1, 2000)

Missions and Ministry

Talk and Walk
Getting our body in sync with our message.
by Kay Warren | (June 6, 2008)

Long-Distance AIDS Ministry
How one modest-sized church in North Carolina is making a big difference in the heart of Africa.
(November 27, 2006)

Q&A: Richard Stearns
The president of World Vision U.S. on the Global Fund, free condoms, and church-based relief and development work.
(October 17, 2006)

Warren, Hybels Urge Churches to Wage 'War on AIDS'
Hundreds of evangelicals attending Disturbing Voices conference repent, refocus on outreach to outcasts.
(Dec. 5, 2005)

Purpose Driven in Rwanda
Rick Warren's sweeping plan to defeat poverty.
(October 2005)

Raising the Compassion Bar
How 575 suburban teens underwrote a medical clinic, schoolhouse, and a year's supply of food for a village in Zambia—with money to spare.
(August 2005)

Jesus at G8
Christian advocacy for Africa gains notice at top meetings.
(July 2005)

The Colossus of Care
World Vision has become an international force—and a partner with the poor.
(March 2005)

Q & A: Deborah Dortzbach
The international director of HIV/AIDS programs at World Relief talks on our progress, and regress, with AIDS.
(September 1, 2004)

'Sexual Revolution,' AIDS, and the African Church
Speeds Spread of HIV Among Africans
(February 7, 2000)

Lessons From Two Sides of AIDS
An HIV-positive woman and a wealthy businessman are reminded of God's expansive love at a unique camp.
(October 23, 2000)

Speaking with Action Against AIDS
A report from the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference.
(July 19, 2000)

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