Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic in Africa

Chitando, Ezra

doi:10.1057/9780230283206_11

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“…Fontein (2014) has also argued that some Zimbabwean migrants living in Scotland perpetuate the perception that witchcraft does exist as an explanatory cause for disease and illness. In Zimbabwe, it is part and parcel of the epistemological framework and traditional world view; in Scotland, witchcraft is associated with migrant Zimbabweans as well as part of the healing discourse that the African Pentecostal Independent Churches indulge in (Chitando & Klagba, 2013). The Suppression of Witchcraft Act of 1899, still in the law books of Zimbabwe to date, demonstrates that witchcraft is still perceived as a cause of HIV (Rödlach, 2006).…”

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Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe

Nyatsanza

Wood

2017

SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS

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When human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are framed within an intersectional approach, they have the potential to transform understandings of social justice within the curriculum and education policy and practice in general. Yet, this transformative potential is often hampered by official narratives that fail to position HIV and AIDS as an integral component of overlapping systems of oppression, domination and discrimination. This article explores how official HIV and AIDS narratives tend to promote systemic injustice and inequality within education policy and practice in both Scotland and Zimbabwe, despite their good intents. We frame our argument within a transformative education discourse which seeks to create participatory and emancipatory HIV-related messages at school, tertiary and community levels. Using a narrative enquiry design, a Foucauldian theoretical lens was used to analyse the narratives derived from key informant responses, supplemented by analysis of key documents that deal with HIV and AIDS in both Scotland and Zimbabwe. Four broad narratives emerged: the 'Gay' Narrative; the Migration Narrative; the Conspiracy Narrative; and the Religious Narrative. We discuss how each of these narratives entrench stigma across both developed and developing world contexts, and propose how a more intersectional interpretation would contribute to a deeper and less stigmatizing understanding of HIV, thus offering more useful insights into related policy and educational practices. This article will thus contribute to the growing body of intersectional HIV and AIDS knowledge that is relevant for schools, teacher education, public health and community settings, not only in the countries studied, but the world over.Keywords: discourse theory, emancipatory, narratives, policy, power, teacher education RésuméSitués ensemble dans un contexte interdisciplinaire, le VIH et le Sida ont le potentiel de transformer la perception de la justice sociale dans le curriculum du système éducatif, sa politique et son fonctionnement en général. Pourtant, ce potentiel de transformation est souvent entravé par le discours officiel qui omet de considérer le VIH et le sida comme des parties intégrantes de plusieurs systèmes qui se chevauchent, à savoir l'oppression, la domination et la discrimination. Cet article cherche à étudier comment le discours officiel sur le VIH et le Sida tend à promouvoir l'injustice et l'inégalité systémiques inhérentes à la politique de l'éducation et de son fonctionnement en Écosse et au Zimbabwe, malgré de bonnes intentions. Nous développons notre argument à partir d'un discours d'éducation transformateur qui cherche à transmettre un message participatif et émancipateur sur le VIH dans les écoles ainsi qu'aux niveaux tertiaire et communautaire. En travaillant avec une enquête sur le discours, les réponses des sujets clé interrogés ont permis de faire une analyse du discours et de filtrer l'enquête par l'optique Foucaldien; ceci est accompagné d'une anal...

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Section: Discussion Of Findingsmentioning

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Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe

Nyatsanza

Wood

2017

SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS

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“…It revealed deficit. Our moral deficit was not, as some were prone to think, due to "Among those amongst us who were living with HIV" (Chitando 2007) 11 but on the larger world, in the communities, churches, families, the industry, economic structures and our international relations. The above ethical questions are still ringing in our ears and to resolve them there was a demand for an expensive programme that called for community gathering and discussion of all sorts on the global and local stage.…”

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“…In recent times, Ezra Chitando has built up on the framework of an HIV positive church by elaborating its multiple theological and ethical bases, but above all, underlining the accountabilities of an HIV positive church. He describes how the HIV positive church can and should become an HIV competent church, in terms of its capacity to respond adequately and effectively to the epidemic (Chitando 2007). An HIV & AIDS Initiative (EHAIA) which was to facilitate the implementation of the Action plan amongst African churches and the global ecumenical family.…”

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Let there be light! Birthing ecumenical theology in the HIV & AIDS apocalypse!

Dube

2021

That All May Live! : Essays in Honour of Nyambura J. Njoroge

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“…Religious organizations (ROs) are often said to play an important role in mitigating the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in resource-limited settings (Becker and Geissler 2009, Chitando 2010, Olivier et al 2006, Tiendrebeogo and Bukyx 2004). Public accounts of that role typically stress ROs' unique ideological and organisational advantages for community mobilisation and outreach as well as a long-established tradition of faith-based provision of health care and psychological support to the disadvantaged masses, especially in rural areas.…”

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Fighting down the scourge, building up the church: Organisational constraints in religious involvement with HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

Agadjanian

Menjívar

2011

Global Public Health

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Religious organisations (ROs) are often said to play an important role in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS. Yet, limitations of that role have also been acknowledged. While most of the literature has focused on ideological and individual-level implications of religion for HIV/AIDS, in this study, we shift the focus to the organisational factors that shape and constrain ROs' involvement in both HIV prevention and HIV/AIDS care and support. Using primarily qualitative data collected in a predominantly Christian area in southern Mozambique, we show that the organisational vitality of a RO as determined by its membership size and its relationships with other churches and with governmental and non-governmental agencies is a pervasive priority of RO leaders. Therefore, all church activities, including those related to HIV/AIDS, are instrumentalised by the religious leadership to achieve the church's organisational aims—maintaining and growing its membership, safeguarding the often precarious coexistence with other churches, and enhancing its standing vis-à-vis the government and powerful non-governmental organisations. As a result, the effectiveness of ROs' involvement in HIV/AIDS prevention and assistance is often compromised.

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Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic in Africa

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe

Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe

Let there be light! Birthing ecumenical theology in the HIV & AIDS apocalypse!

Fighting down the scourge, building up the church: Organisational constraints in religious involvement with HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

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