The Role of the Church in Promoting HIV/AIDS Awareness in Africa
Abstract/ Overview
The church in Africa has maximized her efforts to promote awareness about the disease. These efforts generally
range from the provision of facts about HIV and AIDS, its modes of transmission, various types of high -risk behaviour that
increase its transmission, education for responsible and positive living, mainly focusing on human sexuality and related
issues. This theme is treated in the light of the church‘s moral teaching emphasizing its fitness and purpose of conjugal lov e
essentially connected with procreation as established in God‘s creative plan. According to the anthropological vision of
Genesis , man and woman received a gift of life from God. By this gift of God‘s love for them they were empowered to
become co creators with God to give life to new human beings. Thus, the couple, while giving themselves to one another, they
also bring forth children as a reflection of their love