Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and the Crisis of AIDS

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Index 245 ABC, 16, 23–24, 77, 119, 183, 187, 230 Abraham K.C., 135 abstinence, 3, 23–25, 28, 101–2, 114, 118–19, 124, 183 Access to Treatment, 67, 132, 138–39, 141–42, 148, 152, 169, 173, 176 Achmat, Zackie, 29 Ade, King Sunny, 136 African Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 174 African Development Bank, 169 African Initiated Churches, 1, 109 African Renaissance, 32 African Union, 149 Agot, Evelynes, 108 Ajayi, S. Ibi, 133 Ajeitoh, Lydia Setah, 118 Akale, Catherine, 95 All Africa Conference of Churches, 147, 167 altruism, 64, 178, 179 Anglican Communion, 100, 165 Annan, Kofi, 33, 139 Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs), 31 apartheid, 12, 29, 31, 53, 71, 119, 143, 146; post-apartheid, 29 Aristotle, 63, 73, 81, 84–85 Arpaly, Normy, 73 Assisi, Saint Francis, 61 Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar, 147 Augustine, Saint, 21, 56, 101; Augustinian, 21; on the image of God, 55–56; on sexuality, 101 Azidothymidine (AZT), 138, 139, 143, 155, 219 Banso Baptist Hospital, 112, 115 Baptist World Alliance, 165 Barth, Karl, 5, 57–58 Baylies, Carolyn, 103 Beaglehole, Robert, 137 Benhabib, Seyla, 86 bfissi, 46 biodiversity, 150 bioethics, 52 bipsi, 101 Black Death, 9, 12 Blum Lawrence, 62 Boehringer Ingellheim, 143 Bola, Cypriaque Ebole, 161 Boumpoto, Madeleine, 99 Bristo-Myers Squibb, 144 Brunner, Emil, 57, 58–59 Bush, President George, W. 137 Cahill, Lisa, 51 Cairns, David, 45, 57–58 Caldwell, John C., 100–101 Calvin, John, 56–57 Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) 2, 23, 76, 104, 114, 116–17, 142, 146, 151; AIDS control program, 114; care of widows and orphans program, 111, 113, 140, 172; CBC Health Board, 99, 112, 113, 114–17, 142, 146–47, 151; CBC Health board education, 116; community AIDS education, 115; health-care workers, 112–14 capacity building, 19 care, 4, 24, 107, 138; and benevolence, 62; and compassion, 5, 62, 66, 98; of body, 51, 82, 118; of widows and orphans, 111, 113, 140, 172; child care, 172; Christians commanded to, 60; church community of, 43, 50; long-term, 78; moral responsibility, 62; palliative, 114, 142; public, 76; self-care, 79–84 caregivers, 67; aspects of, 79–81; indispensable , 82; practice, 83; virtue, 83; what it requires, 82–83 Carmody, Brendan, 120 Cates, Diana, 68 Catholic Church; Catholic Bishops of Southern African, 119; Health Services, 23; Catholic Relief, 112; U.S. Catholic Bishop’s Conference, 27 Centers for Disease Control, 120, 151 Christian Health Association of Kenya, 146, 163 Christian Health care, 159, 166 246 Index Christian Organization Research and Training in Africa, 166. Cimperman, Maria, 79, 82 Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, 28, 29 Clark, Beverley, 22 Clinton, Willian J. Foundation, 137 combivir, 144 compassion, 27, 59, 62–69, 95, 172; acts of, 141, 64, 98; and care, 52, 62, 66; and moral virtue, 63; and pity, 62; defined and interpretations, 62; community obligation, 171, 172, 178; goals and aims, 66; love and compassion, 41, 59, 69, 88, 95–96, 117, 120; Martha Nussbaum on compassion, 62–64; model for communal relationships, 52; moral virtue and disposition, 63 compulsory licensing, 148 condom 25–28; as prophylactic, 27; C in ABC, 16, 24; CBC Health Board on use, 116; opposed by church leaders , 25; criticized by South African bishops, 24; debate on, 24; condomization of Africa, 24; fetishized, 181; Museveni on, 25–26; protective device, 171; rethinking debate, 180–82; social marketing, 182; use as act of compassion, 28; use of as key to Ugandan success, 24–25 Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATO), 143, 165 conspiracy, 30 Craddock, Susan, 157 cure claims, 132, 158–61, 162; Cameroon, 159–62; church should listen critically to, 151–52; Kemron, 128; Kenya, 158 Debt-for-AIDS-swaps, 167 DeCock, Kevin, 120 denial, 1, 30, 83, 118; and silence, 30, 118; denialism, 29 Denis, Philippe, 119 diakonia, 62, 96 Diaz-Bonnila, 137 Dibango, Manu, 135 discrimination, 122; against children 124; against gays and lesbians, 100; against widows and orphans, 108–11; against women, 103, 104, 107, 172; AIDS kills withou, 119; Christian denomination should fight, 122, 118, 123; destroys proximity, 122; judgmental attitude, 122 DKInternational, 181 Donga Mantung Division, 18, 97 Driver, Julia, 73 drugs, 12, 31; access to antiretroviral, 143, 147, 177; African states lack funds, 140, 142; antiretroviral, 29, 30, 76, 92, 137, 138, 142, 158; Christian organizations and, 146–47; consumers, 177; compulsory licensing , 148; cost of as a barrier, 13; research, 31...