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The All Africa Anglican Conference on HIV/AIDS, Boksburg, South Africa, 2001
The All Africa Anglican Conference on HIV/AIDS was held in Boksburg, South Africa, in August 2001. The participants included representatives from 12 African Anglican provinces and more than 33 African nations, several archbishops from across Africa, a core of hosts, volunteers and staff from the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA), leadership from the worldwide Anglican Communion, together with donors and observers from international non-governmental organisations and pharmaceutical companies.
The main objective of the conference was to engage the Anglican Communion in a process of strategic planning to guide its response to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The conference also aimed to provide delegates with a model of planning that they could adapt and use at parish, diocese or provincial level.
The aim of the planning process is to enable the church and its partner organisations to develop appropriate, sustainable plans and programmes aimed at helping those affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.
The conference followed two tracks:
Track One – Anglican Communion representatives
Delegates participating in this track came from all levels of the Anglican Communion, across all the church provinces of sub-Saharan Africa and included a delegation of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) from a number of African countries.
People participated in four sessions which focused on their experiences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic at a local level, the vision they have about key issues facing their church, and how they believe the worldwide Anglican Communion could best intervene in – and contribute to stopping – the unfolding pandemic.
Track Two – Partner Organisation representatives
Delegates participating in this track included representatives from international donor agencies, HIV/AIDS service organisations, civil society groups and government departments.
Delegates participated in four sessions which focused on their experiences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic at a local level, the vision they have about key issues facing their church communities and how they believe the worldwide Anglican Communion could best intervene in – and contribute to stopping – the unfolding pandemic.
What happened?
Over the course of four days, participants:
- Created a vision statement, “We, the Anglican Communion across Africa, pledge ourselves to the promise that future generations will be born and live in a world free from HIV/AIDS”;
- Developed, enacted and documented a strategic planning process,
Planning our Response to HIV/AIDS – A Step by Step Guide to HIV/AIDS Planning for the Anglican Communion (PDF document 4.3MB) - Agreed on six focal areas of concern that would guide the planning process, namely leadership, care, prevention, counselling, pastoral care, and death and dying;
- Identified three at-risk or vulnerable populations of particular concern, namely women, children orphaned by AIDS and people living with HIV/AIDS;
- Set a template for strategic planning that could be used throughout Africa and would be available for use across the worldwide Anglican Communion;
- Formulated policies that would guide the worldwide Anglican Communion’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Interviews & Further Information
- Rev Canon Ted Karpf - co-ordinator, CPSA's HIV/AIDS Ministries strategic planning process
- Bart Cox - logistics co-ordinator
- Kevin Osborne - partner organisation facilitator
- Nikki Schaay - Anglican Communion facilitator
- Busi Makhanya - Anglican Communion facilitator
- Rev Japé Heath - participant
- Key learnings from the All Africa Anglican Conference
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