The Role of the Church in Promoting HIV/AIDS Awareness in Africa

The church in Africa has maximized her efforts to promote awareness about the disease. These efforts generally range from the provision of facts about HIV and AIDS, its modes of transmission, various types of high-risk behaviour that increase its transmission, education for responsible and positive living, mainly focusing on human sexuality and related issues. This theme is treated in the light of the church’s moral teaching emphasizing its fitness and purpose of conjugal love essentially connected with procreation as established in God’s creative plan. According to the anthropological vision of Genesis , man and woman received a gift of life from God. By this gift of God’s love for them they were empowered to become co creators with God to give life to new human beings. Thus, the couple, while giving themselves to one another, they also bring forth children as a reflection of their love.