GC Women's Ministries Newsletter Calendar & Prayer Request
OCTOBER 2008
The Loving Touch: Caring for Someone with HIV/AIDS
Since the first cases of Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were reported in 1981, infection with Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) has grown to pandemic proportions.
- Over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Over 19 million women are living with HIV/AIDS.
- There are 14,000 new infections every day (95 percent in developing countries). HIV/AIDS is a “disease of young people,” with half of the 5 million new infections each year occurring among people ages 15 to 24.
- The UN estimates that currently there are 14 million AIDS orphans and that by 2010 there will be 25 million.
Source: www.unaids.org
This year, the General Conference Women’s Ministries Department, in partnership with the Adventist Aids International Ministry (AAIM), has been working on HIV/AIDS home-base care training material for Women’s Ministries directors to use. The Loving Touch Caring for Someone with HIV/AIDS is a tool for the women who are involved in training.
The material consists of a CD-ROM containing the PDF flip chart presentation which can be printed out to use as overheads, a PowerPoint flip chart presentation, and additional resource materials that give supplemental information on HIV/AIDS.
The resource teaching tool is available for use in the church or in the community. To get your copy of the material, contact your Division Women's Ministries director.
Think-It:
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. —Franklin Jones
Prayer Corner
- Annual Council in Manila
- Women who are fighting HIV/AIDS
- Women involved with evangelism
- Praying for the women in Zimbabwe
Calendar
- October 1—Devotional Book deadline
- October 17—International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
- October 31—Scholarship Applications due to GCWM