Called to Care No 5: Community Action on HIV and AIDS

This book is designed to help church leaders in dealing with social, cultural, and economic issues related to the AIDS epidemic at community level. It covers topics such as the sexual abuse of children, domestic violence, widow inheritance, and property grabbing by relatives - issues the publication describes as having been exacerbated in many African countries by the AIDS epidemic. The book is part of the “Called to Care” series, and is based on 12 years of experience of the Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), based in Nairobi, Kenya. The author is an ordained pastor who has been involved in faith-based and community responses to HIV and AIDS since 1999, and, since January 2007, has been General Secretary of the OAIC.

The publication includes case studies of the work of several African independent churches that, with the support of the OAIC, have responded in what the book describes as innovative ways to the challenges of the AIDS epidemic. These stories are drawn from OAIC member churches in Kenya and Uganda, but intend to be relevant to churches throughout sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. The book also contains ideas for role plays, discussion guidelines, biblical references, individual case studies, and illustrations by African artists to use in facilitating discussions and training.

To order copies: Organisations in Kenya should contact OAIC (see contact details below). Organisations outside Kenya should contact TALC (see contact details below).