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Christ’s call to love our neighbours as ourselves includes ensuring that all have access to the resources needed to live and flourish. And yet, societal barriers to reproductive health prevent many individuals from accessing necessary care. Love, Justice and Reproductive Health: A Framework for Churches invites churches to consider reproductive health from a perspective rooted in Christ’s love. It introduces key areas and addresses prevalent disparities within reproductive health outcomes. The framework encourages churches to act on this issue, providing programmatic suggestions for them to embody Christ’s love and justice within their own contexts.

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The author, Rev Alexa Dava is ordained with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and serves as project officer for Human Dignity and Reproductive Health at the WCC.

The Tumeweza compendium iss a vital resource for ensuring disability-inclusive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV) services in the United Republic of Tanzania. It highlights the significant strides made towards improving accessibility and inclusivity in healthcare services, particularly through the efforts at Selian Lutheran Hospital and Nkinga Referral Hospital. The lessons learned from these initiatives provide a roadmap for other health facilities to follow, emphasizing the importance of collaboration with organizations of persons with disabilities, government stakeholders, and faith-based organizations.
While the progress is commendable, there are still gaps that need to be addressed to fully realize inclusive healthcare services for women and girls with disabilities. These include improving infrastructure, enhancing communication between healthcare providers and patients with disabilities, and creating specific policies and procedures that ensure the dignity and autonomy of all individuals. The compendium underscores the necessity of continuous training, accessible information systems, and advocacy at all levels to ensure that no one is left behind.
Moving forward, it is essential for health facilities, policymakers, and development partners to prioritize the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all healthcare-related initiatives. By addressing the existing gaps and building on the good practices outlined in this compendium, Tanzania can continue to lead in the promotion of disability-inclusive SRHR and GBV services in the region and globally, ensuring that every woman and girl has the right to safe, accessible, and respectful healthcare.

Cette simple fiche d'information fournit des informations générales sur la zoonose Mpox : ce qu'elle est, comment elle se transmet, les signes et les symptômes, les vaccins et les traitements et, surtout, le rôle des communautés de foi dans la lutte contre la maladie.

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De nos jours, le traitement contre le VIH est très efficace et tolérable. Or, certain-e-s responsables religieux, par manque d’informations exactes, continuent de propager des messages prônant l’exclusivité de la guérison par la foi, demandant aux personnes atteintes de VIH d’arrêter leur traitement pour prouver leur foi en Dieu. Dans Bonnes nouvelles dans la lutte contre le VIH: traitement, rétablissement et guérison, les organisateurs et organisatrices des discussions et leurs participant-e-s ont abordé les concepts de traitement, de rétablissement et de guérison du VIH, en s’appuyant sur les principes des théologies chrétiennes et musulmanes et sont arrivé-e-s à la conclusion que les communautés religieuses avaient pour mandat de guérir. Ils et elles ont évoqué les six cas récents de personnes vivant avec le VIH déclarées rétablies, ce qui suscite l’espérance en un remède pour toutes et tous. D’ici là, les communautés religieuses doivent soutenir toutes les personnes vivant avec le VIH pour qu’elles adhèrent à leur traitement. Les médicaments et les traitements relèvent de la puissance de guérison de Dieu, source ultime de guérison

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HIV treatment is very effective and tolerable nowadays. However, some faith leaders, out of misinformation, continue spreading messages of exclusive healing by faith, asking people living with HIV to abandon their medications as proof of their faith in God.

In Good News about HIV Treatment, Cure, and Healing, the initiators of the conversations and the discussants analyzed the concepts of treatment, cure, and healing in HIV, using principles of Christian and Muslim theologies, and concluded that faith communities have the mandate to heal. They discussed the six recent six cases of people with HIV who have been declared cured, which sparks hope for a definitive cure for all. Meanwhile, faith communities must support people living with HIV in adhering to their treatment. Medications and treatments are part of the healing touch of God, who is the ultimate source of healing.

This simple factsheet provides background about the Mpox zoonotic disease,: what it is, how it is transmitted, signs and symptoms, vaccines and treatment, and, most importantly, the role of faith communities in responding to the disease.