Religion and HIV/AIDS Don't Mix

Kirby, M

Religion and HIV/AIDS Don't Mix

Kirby, M

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Issue Date:: 2010-11-08T03:15:00Z

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Kirby, M
dc.date.accessioned	2010-11-08T03:15:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T02:06:55Z
dc.date.available	2010-11-08T03:15:00Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T02:06:55Z
dc.date.issued	2010-11-08T03:15:00Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19511
dc.description	A public talk by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG	en
dc.description.abstract	The Honourable Michael Kirby discusses the relationship between Religion and HIV. Kirby has been involved in international activities in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the mid-1980s. Recently, he attended a conference held near Utrecht in The Netherlands concerned with the role of religion in the epidemic. Can religion be a support to the doctors and others who are attempting to prevent the spread of HIV? Or is religion an impediment that causes the stigma and shame that impede safer health messages? Kibry offers some historical analogies. In her book The March of Folly, famed historian Barbara Tuchman describes how even people with the best information can sometimes blindly stick to the wrong path. This is what is happening now with religion and the AIDS epidemic. With funds for therapies drying up in the GFC, how can we turn the religious response around so that it counteracts the messages of shame and fear that it currently purveys?	en
dc.description.sponsorship	UTS Library	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/1173
dc.subject	AIDS	en
dc.subject	HIV	en
dc.subject	Religion	en
dc.subject	Markets Forum	en
dc.title	Religion and HIV/AIDS Don't Mix	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
dc.type	Video	en
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

The Honourable Michael Kirby discusses the relationship between Religion and HIV. Kirby has been involved in international activities in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the mid-1980s. Recently, he attended a conference held near Utrecht in The Netherlands concerned with the role of religion in the epidemic. Can religion be a support to the doctors and others who are attempting to prevent the spread of HIV? Or is religion an impediment that causes the stigma and shame that impede safer health messages? Kibry offers some historical analogies. In her book The March of Folly, famed historian Barbara Tuchman describes how even people with the best information can sometimes blindly stick to the wrong path. This is what is happening now with religion and the AIDS epidemic. With funds for therapies drying up in the GFC, how can we turn the religious response around so that it counteracts the messages of shame and fear that it currently purveys?

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