Articles for tag: HIV/AIDS

July 6, 2008

Christian Standard

The Human Side of HIV/AIDS

By Judy Fish You can”t see it with the naked eye. Few of us encounter it on a daily basis. It”s not partial to one race of people, or age, or gender. And at a glance, for those newly infected, it”s impossible to know who carries the virus and who doesn”t. From its arrival in 1981, when it affected only certain groups of people in a few countries, HIV has grown into a global pandemic, and now claims the most lives of any infectious disease (see the box on page 5). For the developed world, HIV is primarily a disease

August 12, 2007

Christian Standard

Ministering to the Least of These: Southland Christian Church, Lexington, KY

By Mark Perraut Southland Christian Church Lexington, Kentucky The statistics are staggering, and the stories are overwhelming and heart-wrenching. The issues of HIV/AIDS and world hunger are so enormous we wonder how we can help at all. In order to start to help, we must understand the causes of these modern-day plagues and discover ways to break the generational cycle. Contributing factors of the HIV/AIDS pandemic include poverty, war, promiscuity, homosexuality, and the lack of adequate health care. In Africa 3 million children under the age of 15 are infected with HIV/AIDS. As many as 12 million African children have

December 3, 2006

Christian Standard

AIDS in Africa: Zimbabwe

By David Grubbs When I returned to Africa in 1969, this time as a missionary doctor, the leading cause of death in Africa was malaria. Little did I know then that an infectious tsunami was building that would one day overwhelm not only the continent of Africa, but especially the place where God had called us to serve, Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia). AIDS originated in Africa somewhere in the equatorial forests, probably in the Republic of Congo. In 1959, in Kinshasa, Republic of Congo, a blood sample was taken from an African man who died with symptoms resembling sickle-cell anemia.

December 3, 2006

Christian Standard

AIDS in Africa: Kenya

By Milton Jones Can you imagine the headlines if a Boeing 747 crashed today? What if 18 747s went down instead? Can you envision the publicity of such a tragedy? And yet the equivalent number of people needed to fill 18 747s will die today from AIDS, the majority of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.* And the greater tragedy is that the same number will die tomorrow, and the next day, and on and on. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa is the largest the world has ever seen. In response to this incredible tragedy, a tithe of the total offerings received

November 30, 2006

Christian Standard

Refusing to Look the Other Way

By Mark A. Taylor Every day. Every week. The ruin caused by AIDS is with us like the air we breathe. I want to ignore the numbers, but I can’t. According to World Vision, 6,000 children are orphaned by AIDS every day . If the sum total of these children orphaned so far “held hands, they would stretch five and a half times across the United States. By 2011, this virtual chain will reach around the world.”* And that’s just the beginning. World Vision also reports that AIDS claims as many lives every week as the total number of American

May 31, 2006

Christian Standard

A Wonderful Way to Demonstrate Unity

By Mark A. Taylor When thousands of us meet at the North American Christian Convention in Louisville this month, all the talk will be about unity. We will remember the century old divide that has separated a cappella churches of Christ and instrumental Christian churches and churches of Christ. We will ask God to forgive us for staying apart from each other. We will sing together, pray together, and listen together to great preaching from God’s Word. And we will vow to find new ways to experience unity in coming years. But none of that will be as good as

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