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A presentation by Micah Challenge coalition
member World Vision
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HIV and AIDS
The Greatest Humanitarian Crisis

• More than 28 million people worldwide have died
  due to HIV and AIDS
• Almost 40 million are currently infected with
  HIV, two-thirds of these are in Africa
• In 2006, 530,000 children were newly infected
  with HIV
• Every 90 seconds a child dies from AIDS-related
  illnesses
• 14 million children under 15 years of age are
  orphans due to HIV and AIDS

Statistics from UNAIDS December 2006
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HIV and AIDS
Affects the Vulnerable Most

• Because they are sick, parents cant work to feed
  or care for their children
• Children must leave school to care for their
  familys needs - and orphans must fend for
  themselves
• The elderly must care for orphaned grandchildren
  and extended family
• Over 60 of orphaned children live in
  grandparent-headed households in Namibia, South
  Africa and Zimbabwe and over 50 in Botswana,
  Malawi and Tanzania.

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Acting on Faith,
Christians Are Called to Respond

• The Church can respond to those affected by HIV
  and AIDS with the compassionate love of God
• The Church can provide biblically based education
  to prevent the spread of HIV
• The Church can challenge judgemental attitudes,
  fear and incorrect assumptions about people
  living with or affected by HIV and AIDS

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and
faultless is this to look after orphans and
widows in their distress . . .
James 127a (NIV)
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Acting on Faith,
Many Christians Are Already Responding

• The Church has a presence in rural and
  hard-to-reach areas and is already providing
• Formal health services (including anti-retroviral
  drugs)
• Care and support at the community level through
  volunteers(including home-based care)
• According to the World Bank, in 2004 faith groups
  accounted for half the education and health care
  provision in sub-Saharan Africa

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Take action if . . .

• You want to turn the tide for a generation
  devastated by HIV and AIDS
• You care about children and want to see your
  blessings multiply for generations to come
• You believe the Church can be a light in the
  darkness of HIV and AIDS