Speaking in stitch: the Keiskamma Altarpiece as testimony to women’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-285
Author(s):  
Annette Wentworth
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals An Afro-Christian ministry to people living with HIV/Aids in South Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matsobane J. Manala
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World View ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Persons Living With Hiv ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Church ◽  
Hiv Aids

The HIV/Aids pandemic is cause for great frustration to the developing countries in their attempts to improve the quality of life of their citizens. HIV/Aids in South Africa demands a specific approach to the Christian ministry in which the African world-view is acknowledged. In order for the church to play a relevant and meaningful role in combating the HIV/Aids pandemic, it is necessary that the church should be informed of the existential situation of persons living with HIV/Aids. This information is vital for raising awareness and engendering sensitivity among Christians. In the context of such awareness of and sensitivity to human pain and suffering, the community of the faithful should be moved to heed Christ’s call to show neighbourly love. The possible role of the church in caring for those who are already infected with HIV is defined.

HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Katito
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter compares HIV/AIDS policies in Brazil and South Africa over the thirty-year history of the epidemic, focusing on the period between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s. The discussion lays emphasis on the largely divergent policy responses of the two states to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The chapter begins with an overview of Brazil and South Africa's HIV/AIDS policies, along with critical factors that explain why, despite being two similar societies, they responded so differently to the epidemic. These factors include the nature and the timing of democratic transition and the relatively stronger Brazilian civil society. The chapter argues that Brazil acted far more aggressively than South Africa against the HIV/AIDS epidemic by implementing comprehensive prevention, treatment and care policies. As a result, the Brazilian government has been able to contain the spread of the virus across its population. In contrast, negligence, denial, delay and fragmentation have considerably exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

Reflections on the Church and HIV/AIDS

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Haddad
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Contextual Theology ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Church ◽  
Care Support ◽  
Hiv Aids

The church in South Africa faces a new challenge—the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which claims the lives of people in its communities and congregations every day. Until recently, the church remained silent or, worse still, adopted a theology that contributed to the stigma and discrimination faced by those who are HIV-positive. Increasingly, this theology is being questioned, as church leaders take a more positive public stance on education, prevention, care, support, and lobbying for treatment. Yet a mainstream, contextual theology that acknowledges and supports people living with HIV/AIDS, offering them Christian hope and acceptance, still remains to be formulated for South Africa.

Contributory Factors to HIV/AIDS Pandemic among the Youth at Dzumeri Village, Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
T.J. Mudau ◽  
R.T. Lebese ◽  
N.L. Mhlong ◽  
O.S. Obadire ◽  
S.A. Mulovhedzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Contributory Factors ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Hiv Aids

Arms over AIDS in South Africa: Why the Boys Had to Have Their Toys

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janis van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South African ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article attempts to find a rationale for South Africa's multi-billion-dollar arms deal given the absence of any conventional military threat and despite the overwhelming need to manage the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a far more salient threat to both South African and regional security. Culture, identity, and norms help to illustrate the compulsion to acquire weapons as a demonstration of a state's symbolic power, and as an important pursuit of foreign policy. In as much as Pretoria sought to gain status and prestige from the arms deal, the strategy is disappointingly conventional and therefore with limited ultimate effect.

scholarly journals Child-headed households because of the trauma surrounding HIV/AIDS

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zamani Maqoko ◽  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Aids Orphans ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Out Of School ◽  
Hiv Aids

By the year 2002 14 million children had been orphaned globally because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. A great number of these have become the heads of households, are forced to look after themselves and siblings, drop out of school, are vulnerable to many forms of abuse and have found work to take care of themselves and their siblings. Misinformation, ignorance and prejudice concerning HIV/AIDS limit the willingness of a community to provide for the orphans who have been affected by the disease. This article aims to address the question why this is also the case in South Africa and why the African philosophy of “ubuntu” (humaneness), does not seem to make a difference. This study build upon fieldwork undertaken in the Bophelong area among HIV/AIDS orphans who function as heads of households and children who have been orphaned due to circumstances other than HIV/AIDS. The article concludes that religious communities can fill the gap left by the lack of “ubuntu” and can play a major role in nurturing HIV/AIDS orphans who function as heads of households. Churches can build a supportive environment where HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children can feel accepted.

scholarly journals Die wit kerk en swart nood: Is daar nog sout in die soutpot oor? Opmerkings oor die betrokkenheid van die wit kerk by die MIV/Vigs pandemie in Suid-Afrika

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 468-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. G. Schoeman ◽  
P. Verster ◽  
J. J. Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Short Term ◽  
White Community ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Church ◽  
Hiv Aids

The white church and black needs: Is there still salt left in the salt cellar? Remarks on the involvement of the white church with the HIV/Aids pandemic in South Africa. There are reasons why the churches in the white community of South Africa are not really concerned or involved in the HIV/Aids pandemic, which is primarily ravaging the Black community. This may, however, be regarded as the "shibolet" for the credibility of the church. The article emphasises the need for the (White) church to listen in three directions: to understand its own identity, to listen (again) to the will of the Lord, and to listen to the needs of the Black community (especially in terms of HIV/Aids). Then the church should become involved. This involvement must be above else in the local communities, in the practical ways, which are indicated, in the area of short-term help, but also empowerment and liberation.

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