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| Participants of HIV and Church’s response workshop |
The HIV and AIDS orientation was conducted in Anugrah AG Church in Kabilvastu District. There were 24 Church leaders and members from 9 churches. In Nepal HIV awareness among the Christian community in Nepal is still low. The issue isn’t talked about much and congregations need to learn how to mainstream prayers for those infected and affected. It was encouraging to see participants deliberate on the various roles and capacity areas that are needed for churches to respond.
The HIV orientation sessions became a modeling opportunity to learn about facilitation skills and how to tackle sensitive matters like the use of condoms, sexually transmitted infections and sexual reproductive health.
Skill building, providing accurate information and emphasis on biblical perspective motivated Christian leaders and members to understand how HIV and AIDS issues can be addressed in the Christian community with their own resources.
The churches will be using the self assessment tool every six months to ascertain their progress and facilitators will attend peer learning reviews to share experiences and learn from each other. The initial score on the self assessment will be recorded by individual churches and then every 6 months the new score would be calculated. The progress will also be documented.
Relationship building enhances unity among churches and communities to respond to HIV and AIDS.
Please pray for: Political situation in Nepal especially for leaders as they make decisions that affect people and the country
