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Taking a Stand - Interview

Anglican Consultative Council 12 Resolution

  1. Receives the report on HIV/AIDS and expresses its appreciation for it and the leadership of the Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, who has been tasked to lead the Communion’s efforts in this regard;


  2. Affirms the Primates’ Statement on HIV/AIDS issued in April 2002 at the meeting of the Primates in Canterbury, and commends its widest possible circulation through the churches of the Anglican Communion;


  3. Encourages the churches throughout the Communion to make awareness of HIV/AIDS a priority, and to undertake gender-sensitive education and information programmes to alert and protect their respective communities and nations;


  4. Urges each church of the Anglican Communion to develop and adopt a plan of action in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic by ACC 13 in 2005, and report on what has been achieved;


  5. Applauds the efforts of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA) to co-ordinate and lead HIV/AIDS ministry response across sub-Saharan Africa;


  6. Recognises and endorses those efforts, both within government and private sector on the continent to Africa, to develop vaccines and make life-saving treatments available to all people living with HIV/AIDS;


  7. Thanks the Compass Rose Society for its proactive leadership and financial support in launching the All Africa Anglican Conference on HIV/AIDS in Boksburg, South Africa, in 2001, and acknowledges the outstanding leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend George Leonard Carey, for his inspired and courageous leadership in bringing the Anglican Communion to an awareness of this unfolding catastrophe;


  8. Extends gratitude for the financial and technical resource efforts of the international donor community and faith-based charities in supporting and sustaining HIV/AIDS programme efforts within the Anglican Communion, which educate, build capacity to respond, and alleviate suffering around the world;


  9. Calls upon the churches of the Communion to support and assist with church resources, human and financial, and provide technical assistance in meeting the challenges of this pandemic to bring about a generation without HIV/AIDS;


  10. Requests that the Secretary General of the ACC establish an Anglican Communion Office-managed Anglican Communion AIDS Fund.

 

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