By: Benjamin Sidori (2007)
Despite the different measures taken to curb it, HIV/AIDS still remains a stumbling block towards development of the community and the nation as a whole. Different organizations both governmental and non-governmental have done a commendable job in trying to reduce the rate of infection. The church therefore needs to rise up to this challenge.
The problem of HIV/AIDS is not only a physical problem for the medical personnel to handle, but also an issue for the Christian people and other religious institutions to help out. The church has a task to mobilize its members to get involved in reaching to both the vulnerable groups and those already living with AIDS and help the uninfected not to find themselves in similar situations. They can organize seminars, counseling and training, video shows and films on AIDS and prepare IEC materials.
Above all, the clergy and other church leaders can prepare bible study in relation to the subject in campaigning for abstinence. In supplementing this, they can also get people living with AIDS to share their stories. This will reduce stigma and the infection rates.
The church in Kenya command attention from a lot of people and has higher chances of affecting change than any other institution. It should therefore use its influence to spread the gospel of the fight against this national disaster called AIDS. The church environment will increase participation by everyone in the fight against this scourge that is destroying our generation.
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I love this. The challenge is that the clergy themselves have decayed in their morals and have thus lost their morals authority to even rebuke immorality. Something must be done by the church urgently!
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