13.05.05 04:11 Age: 7 yrs
HIV positive priest pleads for church leaders to fight stigma on
Athens (ENI). An Anglican priest who runs a network of African religious leaders who have tested positive for HIV has urged churches to end an "absolute fixation with sex" that stigmatises those who live with the virus. That attitude hampers efforts to check the spread of the pandemic and for many church leaders "AIDS equals sex, equals sin, equals death", said the Rev. Johannes Petrus (Japé) Heath, coordinator of the African Network of Religious Leaders living with or personally affected by HIV and AIDS (ANERELA+). [451 words, ENI-05-0356]
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