AIDS Pandemic

Participants from Malawi lead the seminar in song.

According to the latest UNAIDS report, an estimated 40 million individuals are living with HIV/AIDS. In some countries in Africa, one in every four people are infected with HIV. While mother-to-child transmission has been all but eliminated in the United States and in Europe, this wholly preventable way of spreading this killer is still prevalent in much of the developing world.

On October 24-27, 2002 Presbyterian leaders from around the world and United Nations staff came together at the Presbyterian United Nations Office to strengthen efforts to address the AIDS pandemic. Visit the links below for presentations and material from the seminar. Additional resources are coming soon.

Listen: the AIDS pandemic

Rev. Howard Matiya Nkhoma
General Secretary, Synod of Livingstonia, Malawi

Nontando Hadebe
South African Theologian

Dr. N.A. Phiri
Ekwendi Hospital, Malawi

Paula Larke
Musician, AIDS worship service

Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel
Moderator of the 214th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), AIDS worship benediction

• PC(USA) Policy on HIV/AIDS — Adopted by the 213th General Assembly
  
• PC(USA) and the Churches Respond
  
• Sermons, Worship, Bible Study
  
• Poverty: The Driving Factor in the Spread of AIDS
  
• Stigma
• Gender Inequality and How it Fuels the Pandemic