Church Discourse on Hiv/Aids

A Responsible Response to a Disaster?

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23233302
AutoresMiranda N Pillay (0000-0003-3335-2232, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen82
Número0
Páginas108
Fecha de publicación2013-06-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScriptura (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0254-1807 • E-ISSN: 2305-445X
EditorialStellenbosch University (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.7833/82-0-902
OpenAlexW2025026363
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to evolve and has now reached pandemic proportions in South Africa and other developing countries throughout the world. HIV/AIDS presents a challenge to the well-being of individuals and to the public health of proportions unprecedented in modern history. While the challenge is scientific and medical, it is also psychological, legal, economic, social, ethical and theological. It is no longer a question of “why” the church should respond but rather “how” the church ought to respond. When the churches’ response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is analysed within the framework of the disaster management continuum, one gains a schematic perspective of the current responses as well the gaps in such responses.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Developing country · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Pandemic · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Public health · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · History · Medicine · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria · Religion, Society, and Development · Virology