Pacsa Newsletter

This comprehensive handbook aims to challenge Christians to look at HIV/AIDS in a new light and consider fresh ways of responding to this humanitarian and theological crisis. God is calling us to do church differently. Although it is aimed squarely at Christian Churches, its applicability goes well beyond that. This is true especially for the appendices, which offer practical guidelines that will help anyone to meet the real lived needs of people living with HIV or AIDS. It challenges us how can we live out what God requires of us in South Africa today, where nearly 5 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and more than 600 die every day.

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The study interrogates as to understand the bigger picture of HIV/AIDS using the approach of microanalysis of music event. It places the choir, and the cultural and political issues addressed in their music in the broader context of South Africa’s public health and political history, and the global culture and politics of AIDS.