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RESOURCES AND LINKS
On this page you can access information about:
Sofa sessions for youth groups
Responding to HIV/AIDS: 2010 General Assembly report
Video interviews
Interview with Rev Robin Hill, Project convener
Raising awareness: 2009 General Assembly report
A New Hunger
General resources
HIV and Holy Communion
Scotland-based
websites
UK and international-based
websites
Please note that all external links on this page will
take you out of the Church of Scotland website and open
a new browser window.
Sofa sessions for youth groups
Do you want to explore HIV/AIDS issues with your youth group? Visit Christian Aid's website for 'Sofa Sessions' to find resources for 16 - 21 years olds at www.christianaid.org.uk/
Responding to HIV/AIDS: 2010 General Assembly report
The report to the 2010 General Assembly celebrated the success of Souper Sunday and the Moderator's Challenge, and called on churches to support campaigns to 'keep the promise'.
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Video interviews
Two interviews are available on DVD from the Project office. One is with Rev Rosemary Nsofwa from the Community Development Department of the United Church of Zambia, who talks about the Women's programme and how it empowers people, and explains the importance of good nutrition for HIV medication to be most effective.
The other is with Mrs Ayra Inderyas from the Women's Desk of Lahore Diocese, Church of Pakistan, who describes the important role which the church can have in tackling stigma and descrimination.
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Interview Rev Robin Hill, Project convener
Rev Robin Hill, Convener of the HIV/AIDS Project, recently talked to Gillian McKinnon about Souper Sunday 2010, and reflected on his trip to Malawi in October 2009 where he saw some of the work of the Project in action. You can download the interview here in mp3 format.
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An 'HIV-competent Church': 2009 General Assembly report
The HIV/AIDS Project's
report to the 2009 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
outlines some of the work being done in the world and Scotland, and proposes ways of raising awareness
about HIV/AIDS in the Church.
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A New Hunger
| The HIV/AIDS Project is working in partnership with the Guild over the next three years to support work which helps people to access food which is sufficient and nutritious.
You can read more about this project on the Guild's page here. |
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A PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded below for talks about the Project.
General resources
Information about the following resources are available
on this page:
World AIDS Day:
Keep the promise
Our generation and the next
HIV/AIDS issues of WM magazine
Powerpoint presentation
World AIDS Day: Keep the promise
Around 33 million people are living with HIV throughout
the world - and that number increases in every region
every day. In the UK alone, more than 70,000 people are
living with HIV and more than 7,000 more are diagnosed
every year.
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World AIDS Day, held on 1 December
each year, is an opportunity for people around the
world to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS. |
Click here to visit
our dedicated resources page for World AIDS Day,
entitled Keep the promise.
Our generation and the next
This leaflet is the HIV/AIDS Project
information leaflet with pictures and information
about the work the HIV/AIDS Project supports around
the world and in Scotland, complete with tear-off
donation slip.
This is available from the Project Office at 121 George Street, edinburgh EH2 4YN.
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HIV/AIDS issues of WM magazine
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The WM32 issue from November 2009 looks at overcoming ignorance, stigma and fear by speaking frankly about the dangers of HIV. |
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The WM25 issue from November 2008 reports on HIV 20 years after the first World AIDS Day, and features the Moderator's Challenge. The magazine is available
to download below. |
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A special World AIDS Day 2007 edition
of World Mission's monthly magazine, WM15,
focussed on the theme of HIV and AIDS: The Zambia
- Scotland connection. The magazine is available
to download here.
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PowerPoint presentation
This presentation includes slide timing to allow viewers
to read the information, so no separate commentary is
needed. If you play this in worship, you could play the
song Woza Nomthwalo (provided
on our World AIDS Day page), or have the choir sing it or another song.
Making a difference
This 16 slide PowerPoint presentation (with notes on pages)
provides information about living with HIV and AIDS and some of the work being done by the Church of Scotland
HIV/AIDS Project.
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"Can you drink the cup
that I must drink...?"
Download the guidelines on the practice of sharing a Communion cup
at Holy Communion
Download the guidelines here:
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Scotland-based websites
www.hivscotland.com
HIV Scotland is an HIV voluntary sector policy and support
organisation, providing HIV information and advice.
As the leading HIV policy organisation, HIV Scotland
gives the views and expertise of voluntary organisations
the authority of an independent and collective voice.
www.hps.scot.nhs.uk
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) was established
by the Scottish Executive to strengthen and co-ordinate
health protection in Scotland. It is responsible
for the national surveillance of communicable diseases
and environmental health hazards and the provision of
expert operational support on infection and environmental
health to health boards and local authorities in Scotland.
If you want statistics and information about HIV in
Scotland, you'll find them here.
www.impactaids.org.uk/
Impact AIDS is an Edinburgh-based campaign for improved
treatment for AIDS in resource-poor countries.
www.positivehelpedinburgh.co.uk
Positive Help provides practical help to people living with HIV in Midlothian and their families, carers and partners.
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/
Online guide to Scotland's 15 health boards.
www.waverleycare.org/
Waverley Care provides a range of support services
in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
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UK and international-based
websites
www.acet-international.com/
ACET International Network is a global network of
independent Christian organisations and church-based
agencies, providing sexual health and drugs education,
HIV/AIDS care, housing support, income generation projects,
bereavement support and professional training in communities
across many nations.
www.aidsconsortium.org.uk
The Stop AIDS Campaign works to raise awareness about global HIV/AIDS epidemic and to campaign for urgently scaled up international action. They are campaigning for comprehensive Universal Access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010.
www.aidsmap.com/
News, information, contacts and treatment about
HIV/AIDS in the UK with lots of onward links.
www.appg-aids.org.uk/
The Uk's all-party parliamentary group on AIDS is
concerned about both the devastation that HIV/AIDS is
causing in developing countries and as an issue in the
UK that affects constituents. It seeks to allow UK MPs
and peers to play their part in addressing the epidemic,
in particular by ensuring that laws and policies are
respectful of human rights and promote public health.
www.cafod.org.uk
CAFOD – the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
has some excellent worship and theological material
on their site. Type HIV
into their search engine to discover their range of
online information and resources.
www.chaa.info
Christian HIV/AIDS Alliance is a network of Christian
agencies, churches and individuals praying and working
together to serve and empower those affected by HIV/AIDS.
CHAA’s vision is to see a mobilised UK Christian
community which is aware of and active in compassionate
Christian responses to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
www.christian-aid.org.uk/hivaids/index.htm
Christian Aid is one of our key partners and we
seek to work closely and collaboratively with them,
especially in the area of young people.
www.e-alliance.ch/
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance is a broad ecumenical
network for international cooperation in advocacy on
global trade and HIV and AIDS. Visit this website to learn more about their campaign for universal access.
www.nat.org.uk
The National AIDS Trust is the United Kingdom's
leading HIV and AIDS advocacy organisation.
www.stratshope.org
The Strategies for Hope series, founded in 1989 by the
British non-governmental organisation, ActionAid, aims
to promote informed, effective, community-based approaches
to HIV/AIDS, gender and sexual health, particularly
in sub-Saharan Africa.
www.tht.org.uk/contactus/scotland/
Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) was one of the first English
charities to be set up in response to the HIV epidemic
and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV
and AIDS ever since. It is the largest voluntary organisation
service-provider in England and their site also contains
a wealth of information and opportunities to join campaigns.It
has recently taken over some services in Aberdeen, Glasgow
and Inverness.
www.unaids.org/
The site of the joint United Nations programme on
HIV/AIDS.
www.wcc-coe.org
The World Council of Churches has a range of resources
available.
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