{"id":38559,"date":"2013-06-05T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/o-c-_register_in_africa_evangelicals_join_war_against_aids\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:45:39","slug":"o-c-_register_in_africa_evangelicals_join_war_against_aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38559","title":{"rendered":"(O.C. Register) In Africa, evangelicals join war against AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The church was really quite judgmental in the early part of HIV and AIDS,&#8221; [the Rev. Pukuta] Mwanza explained. &#8220;It was the source of stigma and discrimination because without sufficient information about HIV and AIDS, initially it was perceived as being solely linked to promiscuity, sinful behavior and so on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By the late 1980s, though, the church started to change its message and become &#8220;a very strong contributor to preventing the spread of HIV\/AIDS \u201d\u201c caring for the people who had AIDS and for orphans,&#8221; Mwanza said. &#8220;In fact, some of the best practices that have been used in this country are those that the church has been able to adopt, such as home-based care system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The church,&#8221; he added, &#8220;&#8230;(is) now much more caring, more loving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/aids-510875-zambia-hiv.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The church was really quite judgmental in the early part of HIV and AIDS,&#8221; [the Rev. Pukuta] Mwanza explained. &#8220;It was the source of stigma and discrimination because without sufficient information about HIV and AIDS, initially it was perceived as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38559\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,168,104,108,34,539],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}