Topic
Aids and HIV
Since AIDS was first recognized in 1981, the disease has killed more than an estimated 25 million people. Over 33 million people were living with HIV in 2009, 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.
Have We Become Too Busy With Death?
As 4,900 people die each day from AIDS, African Christians ask themselves:
February 7, 2000
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
African-American Churches and AIDS
Kenya: U.S. Blacks Preach Abstinence Gospel 
Mission workers testify that Christ helps control sexual urges.
April 1, 2002
AIDS: African Americans Focus on AIDS Outreach
Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS gains observation
April 24, 2000
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 and Africa
Obama's AIDS Dilemma
White House funding priorities determine who will live and who will die.
May 17, 2010
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.
November 2, 2007
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
Bono Tells Christians: Don't Neglect Africa
He urges evangelicals to take a lead in fighting AIDS and poverty.
April 22, 2002
AIDS and India
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
India: Pastors as Gravediggers
Christians hope to break the silence and overcome Asia's prejudice against people with AIDS.
July 28, 2000
AIDS Prevention
Don't Make George Soros Oppose Prostitution
The government's ideology requirement at question in USAID v. Open Society International is dangerous.
April 17, 2013
Koop Calls on Church to Address AIDS, Sex Education
The former Surgeon General also spoke about abortion, contraception, and the health care crisis.
February 25, 2013
The Embattled Career of Dr. Koop
Despite political pressures, the surgeon general was out to fight disease, not people.
February 25, 2013
Why I Offer Clean Needles in Jesus' Name
On the front lines of HIV prevention in one of America's holiest cities.
January 15, 2013
Court Rejects Prostitution Restrictions on AIDS Funding
Evangelical NGOS say the ruling is unlikely to change their operations, but the case touches on larger principles.
August 30, 2011
Progress Against AIDS Falters
Christians should make the moral case for sustaining aid programs.
November 29, 2010
Christianity Today editorials on HIV and AIDS
The AIDS Team
Principled collaboration by churches is urgently needed to help defeat HIV.
August 1, 2006
Close Encounters with HIV
Local churches should network in the war against the virus. A Christianity Today editorial.
February 1, 2006
Civics for Gay Activists
We may see more die from HIV/AIDS because gay activists are intolerant
April 1, 2003
A Strategy for Progress
"Unless prevention of HIV/AIDS becomes a clear priority, things will get worse"
April 1, 2003
Killing a Pandemic
The church may be best equipped to deal HIV/AIDS a crippling blow
November 18, 2002
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.
June 1, 2006
Jerry Thacker
Civics for Gay Activists
We may see more die from HIV/AIDS because gay activists are intolerant
April 1, 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
Missions and Ministry
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.
December 5, 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 10, 2005
The Church and AIDS
Why I Offer Clean Needles in Jesus' Name
On the front lines of HIV prevention in one of America's holiest cities.
January 15, 2013
Bush Discusses Iraq and AIDS With Pope in First Meeting
At Easter message, Benedict XVI had lamented, "nothing positive comes out of Iraq."
June 11, 2007
The AIDS Team
Principled collaboration by churches is urgently needed to help defeat HIV.
August 1, 2006
Rift Opens Among Evangelicals on AIDS Funding
Dobson targets Global Fund, which helps Salvation Army, Youth for Christ, and World Vision.
June 2, 2006
Close Encounters with HIV
Local churches should network in the war against the virus. A Christianity Today editorial.
February 1, 2006
More on Aids and HIV
How Missionaries Are Changing Medicine
Why we'll see more impressive discoveries in the field.
May 7, 2013
Don't Make George Soros Oppose Prostitution
The government's ideology requirement at question in USAID v. Open Society International is dangerous.
April 17, 2013
Koop Calls on Church to Address AIDS, Sex Education
The former Surgeon General also spoke about abortion, contraception, and the health care crisis.
February 25, 2013
The Embattled Career of Dr. Koop
Despite political pressures, the surgeon general was out to fight disease, not people.
February 25, 2013
Why I Offer Clean Needles in Jesus' Name
On the front lines of HIV prevention in one of America's holiest cities.
January 15, 2013
African Pastors Lead Crusade for Circumcision
Religious leaders join effort to circumcise 20 million adult men in fight against HIV.
January 2, 2013
Tanzanians Throng to Miracle Cure
Churches debate healing power of pastor's cure.
September 20, 2011
Court Rejects Prostitution Restrictions on AIDS Funding
Evangelical NGOS say the ruling is unlikely to change their operations, but the case touches on larger principles.
August 30, 2011
Progress Against AIDS Falters
Christians should make the moral case for sustaining aid programs.
November 29, 2010
Standing in the (AIDS) Gap
Only half of HIV-positive children in Uganda receive treatment.
November 29, 2010
No Child Left to Die
Half of all babies born with HIV die by age 2. Could we stop that by 2015?
November 29, 2010
Obama's AIDS Dilemma
White House funding priorities determine who will live and who will die.
May 17, 2010
Your Responses: AIDS in Uganda
Part Two of 'Meanwhile, What about the Women and Children?'
April 6, 2009
Condoms, HIV, and Pope Benedict
Leading HIV researcher Edward C. Green says criticism of the pope 'unfair.'
March 20, 2009
An Unlikely Gay-Straight Alliance
Campus Crusade launches HIV/AIDS outreach with campus gay-lesbian group.
January 13, 2009
Youth with a Vision
The stories of two teens who have raised more than $1,000,000 for AIDS orphans in Africa.
January 7, 2009
Comparing the Platforms
Where the parties stand on abortion, faith-based programs, religious liberty, and other issues.
August 27, 2008
HIV Is Incurable, So Don't Stop Caring
Recent research has changed the AIDS headlines, but that shouldn't matter to the church.
June 16, 2008
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.
November 2, 2007
Abstinence Brings 'Dignity'
Traveling in Africa, First Lady Laura Bush speaks in favor of faith-based HIV prevention.
June 29, 2007
Bush Discusses Iraq and AIDS With Pope in First Meeting
At Easter message, Benedict XVI had lamented, "nothing positive comes out of Iraq."
June 11, 2007
Keep Fighting the Good Fight Against HIV/AIDS
More funding from the U.S. government calls attention to the effectiveness of church-based efforts.
June 8, 2007
The Spirit of Faithfulness
Another public failure in fidelity calls us back to the message of the Cross.
May 2, 2007
The Angel in the Whirlwind
Skip the next HIV/AIDS conference and read these books instead.
May 2, 2007
Banking on Breast Milk
One ministry's unusual approach to saving AIDS orphans in Africa.
December 14, 2006
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
The AIDS Team
Principled collaboration by churches is urgently needed to help defeat HIV.
August 1, 2006
A Bigger Problem for Fighting AIDS
Plus: The latest abortion ban, reports of Religious Right infighting, getting men to church, and other stories from online sources around the world.
June 2, 2006
Good news on AIDS in Africa
Deaths are down, and the heroes of the story aren’t who you think. (Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb, Slate)
Africa: sociologists cite religion as a key factor in preventing and alleviating AIDS epidemic
In their new book "Religion and AIDS in Africa" (Oxford University Press), sociologists Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb seek to challenge the widespread view that religious beliefs and communities have unwittingly assisted in the spread of the disease through their resistance to preventative sex education. They also show that not only have religious groups had a largely positive role in AIDS prevention, but also how the epidemic has shaped religious beliefs in unexpected ways.
Benefits of infant circumcision reconfirmed as rates decline
In a study out Monday, researchers say falling infant circumcision rates could end up costing billions of U.S. health care dollars when men and their female partners develop AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections and cancers that could have been prevented. (USA Today)
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