HIV/Aids Dialogue Group

Missional Expressions HIV/Aids Dialogue Group 

We had our Missional Dialogue Group at Mosaiek on March 2nd and had the most amazing panel discussion, surrounding this very sensitive subject, with the following speakers:

• Chantel Swiegers from Oasis SA   www.oasisza.org
• Cherie Bulger from OC Africa   
• Dr Elna Rudolph
• Ruth Olsson from Marshill Congregation (USA) 

HIV/Aids Statistics

• Every 8 seconds someone dies of Aids
• 334 million people living with HIV/Aids in 2008 globally
• 31.3 million are adults
• 15.7 million are women
• 2.1 million are children
• Africa has over 14 million orphans related to Aids
• 1000 daily Aids related deaths in South Africa 

If you want to explore more about this topic, a relevant movie to watch is "Yesterday" and a great book to read is "Three Letter Plague".