UFMCC Resource
Kit for
World AIDS Day (Dec. 1, 2003)
Paquete Básico de Información:
Día Mundial del SIDA 2003
Index:
1. Introduction and Background Information
2. Resources For Support and Information
3. HIV & AIDS Resources By Country
4. Litany for World AIDS Day 2003
5. Selected Hymns For World AIDS Day Services
1.
Introduction and Background Information
1 December 2003 will mark the 15th annual World AIDS Day campaign, a
one-day international event to increase awareness of HIV-related stigma and
discrimination
Stigma and discrimination are major factors contributing to the global HIV
epidemic, creating an atmosphere of fear and ignorance around the world, and an
unwillingness to confront rising infection rates.
World AIDS Day, originally founded by MCC San Diego under the leadership
of Rev. David Farrell, has grown into an annual, international
observance.
While HIV/AIDS is seen by many as an epidemic that has been brought under
control with the development of new drugs and treatments, this is far
from the truth. AIDS claimed the lives of approximately 3 million
people worldwide in 2002 alone. That's over 8,000 deaths every day... and it
doesn't stop there!
Today, there are 14,000 new cases of HIV infection occurring daily as
well. Every minute of every day, five more people die of AIDS-related
complications.
Unfortunately, the majority of all AIDS cases (about 95%) occur in the world's
poorest countries. These countries are not only devastated by the high
levels of infection, but worse yet, by the inability to provide proper care and
drug treatments which are easily affordable in wealthier countries.
It's time to take a stand. Educate yourself about HIV. Make
donations. Wear a #FF9900 ribbon. Learn more about HIV in your local
community by contacting the organizations listed below.
And to find out more about World AIDS Day, visit the website: www.worldaidsday.org.
Change starts with you!
2.
Resources For Support and Information
ACET International Network
1 Carlton Gardens
Ealing, London
W5 2AN, UK
www.acet-international.com
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Ph: + 41.22.791.2111
Fx: + 41.22.791.3111
Telex: 415 416
Telegraph: UNISANTE GENEVA
www.who.int
UNAIDS
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Ph: +41.22.791.3666
Fx: +41.22.791.4187
www.unaids.org
AIDS Education Global Information System
www.aegis.com
3.
HIV & AIDS Resources By Country
ARGENTINA
Dr. Juan Manuel Sotelo
PAHO/WHO Representative
Marcelo T. de Alvear 684, 4th Floor
1395 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fax: +54 11 4311 9151
Telephone: +54 11 4312 5301/04
Email: sotelojm@arg.ops-oms.org
www.ops.org.ar
Prevención y Asistencia en VIH-SIDA
Cucha Cucha 1153 (1416)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina
Tel Fax: 4581-2990
fundacion#FF9900@fibertel.com.ar
www.#FF9900sida.org.ar
AUSTRALIA
AIDS Council of Central Australia
Ph. (08) 8953 1118
Fx. (08) 8953 4584
Address
119 Todd Street
Alice Springs
Northern Territory 0870
Aids Hepatitis and Sexual Health Line Inc.
PO Box 96, Carlton South, Victoria 3053
Ph.(03) 9347 6133
Fx.(03) 9347 6299
e mail: aidshep@vicnet.net.au
AIDSLINE counselling service
(03) 9347 6099 and Free Call 1800 133 392
Hepatitis C Helpline counselling
(03) 9349 1111 and Free Call 1800 800 241
Vietnamese Infoline on hepatitis C
Free Call 1800 456 007
Web Sites for Australia
www.accessinfo.org.au
www.afao.org.au
www.aidshep.org.au
www.whs.sa.gov.au
www.aids.org.au
www.latrobe.edu.au/hiv-futures
CANADA
Canadian AIDS Society
309 Cooper St. 4th Floor
Ottawa, ON K2P 0G5
Ph.(613) 230-3580
Fx. (613) 563-4998
casinfo@cdnaids.ca
www.cdnaids.ca
DENMARK
Aids-info/Fyn
Jernbanegade 16
Postbox 1188
DK-5000 Odense C.
Tlf. +45 6314 2814
Fax +45 6591 1755
aids-info@aids-info.dk
www.aids-info.dk
FRANCE
AIDES
Tour Essor
14, rue Scandicci
93508 Pantin Cedex
Tel: 0820 160 120 / (33.1) 01.41.83.46.46
Fex: (33.1) 01 41 83 46 49
www.aides.org
GERMANY
Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
Dieffenbachstr. 33
10967 Berlin
Internet: www.aidshilfe.de
E-Mail: dah@aidshilfe.de
Tel.: (030) 69 00 87-0
Fax: (030) 69 00 87-42
MEXICO
El Centro de Atención Profesional a Personas con SIDA
José Antonio Torres 618 Colonia Vista Alegre, C.P.
Delegación Cuauhtemoc, México, D. F.
teléfono: 57.40. 43. 89 / 57.40. 50. 21
www.cappsida.org.mx
www.vihsida.org.mx
NEW ZEALAND
Positive Women (Auckland)
C/- CART Unit 2/3
Poynton Terrace Newton
Auckland New Zealand
64 9 309 2693
New Zealand AIDS Foundation
31-35 Hargreaves Street, College Hill, Ponsonby,
PO Box 6663, Wellesley Street, Auckland
Phone: (09) 303 3124
Fax: (09) 309 3149
Email: contact@nzaf.org.nz
www.nzaf.org.nz
NIGERIA
World Health Organization
443 Herbert Macaulay Road
Sabo, Yaba
P. O. Box 2152
Lagos, Nigeria
Phone:
234 - 1 - 5453662 - 3
234 - 1 - 7741717
234 - 1 - 29033276-7
(1) 425 827 4696
Fax:
234 - 1 - 5452179
(1) 425 671 1866
Email : admin@who-nigeria.org
www.who-nigeria.org
THE PHILIPPINES
National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP)
Department of Health
San Lazaro Compound, Sta. Cruz, Manila, PHILIPPINES
Phone: (632) 743.8301 loc 2352
www.doh.gov.ph
Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) Secretariat
3/F Bldg 12, Department of Health
Sta. Cruz, Manila, PHILIPPINES
Phone: (632) 338.6440, (632) 743.8301 loc 2254, 2257
Fax: (632) 743.0512
www.doh.gov.ph/aids/index.htm
Email: naspcp@doh.gov.ph
ROMANIA
www.sexdex.ro
SPAIN
Sida-Studi
Sant Pere més alt 17, baixos
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 268 14 84
Fax +34 93 268 23 18
sidastud@suport.org
www.sidastudi.org
SOUTH AFRICA
AIDS Foundation of South Africa
P. O Box 50582
Musgrave
4062
South Africa
phone: +27-31-2029520
fax: +27-31-2029522
e-mail:karenguy@aids.org.za
www.aids.org.za
UNITED KINGDOM
National AIDS Trust (NAT)
New City Cloisters
196 Old Street
London EC1V 9FR
England
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7814 6767
Fax +44 (0) 20 7216 0111
After hours number +44 (0) 7815 810773
info@nat.org.uk
www.nat.org.uk
AVERT
4 Brighton Road
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 5BA
UK
(+44) 01403 210202
confidential@avert.org
www.avert.org
Positive Voice
37-39 Montrose Terrace
EDINBURGH
EH7 5DJ
Ph. 0131 652 0754
enquires@positive-voice.org.uk
www.positive-voice.org.uk
Department of Health's Free and Confidential Sexual Health Line
0800 567 123
For comprehensive information about HIV/AIDS.
www.staying-alive.org
www.gaymenshealth.co.uk
UNITED STATES
National Association of People With AIDS
1413 K St NW Ste 700
Washington DC 20005
(202) 898-0414
Fax: (202) 898-0435
Project Inform
205 13th Street, #2001
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-558-8669
415-558-0684
web@projectinform.org
www.projectinform.org
4.
Litany for World AIDS Day 2003
One: We praise you, Holy
One, for the gift of life,
precious, stubborn, fragile and beautiful;
We are grateful for the time we have to live upon the earth,
to love, to grow, to be.
Many: We give thanks for the will to live
and for our capacity to live fully
all of the days that we are given;
One: and for those who have taken
from the devastation of AIDS
the opportunity to build lives of wholeness.
Many: We give you thanks for the partners,
friends, caregivers and families
who have been steadfast in their love;
for the people who have devoted their life’s work
to the prevention, treatment and healing of HIV
with passion and commitment,
One: For the diligent science,
brilliant ideas and insights
that have led to new, life-giving treatments,
For the governments who have acted
to provide health care
for people living with HIV.
Many: We give thanks for those whose prejudice and judgment
have yielded to understanding,
For those who have overcome fear,
indifference or burnout
to embrace a life of caring compassion,
One: We praise you, Eternal One,
for those who have loved enough
that their hearts have broken,
who cherish the memories of those we have lost,
and for those who console the grieving.
Many: God, grant us the love, courage, tenacity, and will
to continue to make a difference in a world with HIV;
One: Inspire us to challenge the forces
that allow the needless spread of AIDS to continue --
prejudice, unjust laws, repression, prudery, stigma and fear.
Many: Into your care we trust and lift up the 60 million souls who
have contracted HIV
One: We lift up to you our dreams of a world where all
are ca#FF9900 for,
Many: our dreams of wholeness,
One: our dreams of a world without AIDS,
Many: a dream we know you share.
5.
Selected Hymns For World AIDS Day Services
Listed below are some hymnals that might form the core of a minister or
musician’s collection; it is not a comprehensive list. Hymn choices have been
divided into three possible categories, each addressing a different aspect of World
AIDS Day observances which MCC might sponsor or in which MCC might be
involved. Some are appropriate for church use only, some appropriate
for interfaith or public settings.
African American Heritage Hymnal (AAHH) (Chicago:GIA Publications, 2003) (Roman
Catholic)
Chalice Hymnal (CH) (St. Louis, Chalice Press, 1995) (Disciples of Christ)
English Hymnal, The (TEH) (London: Oxford, 1933 with tunes) (Church of England)
Flor Y Canto (FYC) (Portland, Oregon: OCP Publications, 2001) (Roman Catholic)
Gather Comprehensive (GC) (Chicago: GIA Publications, 1994) (Roman Catholic)
Hymnal Project (UFMCC)
New Century Hymnal, the (NCH) (Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1995) (United
Church of Christ)
Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship (R) (Carol Streams, Illinois: Hope,
1995) (Evangelical)
Singing the Living Tradition (SLT) (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993) (Unitarian
Universalist Association)
Together in Song : Australian Hymn Book II (TIS) (Australia: HarperCollins,
1999) (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Uniting Church, Churches of Christ,
Presbyterian, Lutheran)
United Methodist Hymnal, the (UMH) (Nashville: United Methodist
Publishing House, 1989) (United Methodist)
Voices United : the Hymn and Worshipbook of the United Church of Canada
(VU) (Etobicoke, Ontario: United Church Publishing House, 1996)
Wonder, Love and Praise (WLP) (New York: Church Pension Fund, 1997) (Episcopal)
Social
Justice
All the Sleepy Should Have A Place to Sleep (TIS 697)
Beauty for Brokenness, Hope for Despair (TIS 690)
*Break Not the Circle (SLT 323)
For the Healing of the Nations Westminster Abbey: (NCH 576; VU 678) Cwm Rhondda:
(UMH 428; CH 668) St. Thomas: (GC 719)
God of Grace and God of Glory Rhuddlan (VU 686) Cwm Rhondda: (CH 464; NCH
436; UMH 577; *SLT 115) Bryn Calfaria: (TIS 611)
In the Midst of New Dimensions (NCH 391 [prefer#FF9900 version]; CH 458)
*Lead Us from Death to Life (NCH 581; GC 732 [listed here as World Peace
Prayer])
*Lift Every Voice and Sing (AAHH 540; NCH 593; CH 631; UMH 519; SLT 149)
Like A Mother Who Has Borne Us (NCH 583)
Lord, Hear My Praying, Listen to Me (TIS 689)
*Oh, Freedom (SLT 156; AAHH 545)
O God of Earth and Altar Llangloffan: (NCH 582; CH 724) Kings Lynn: (TEH
562)
*O Liberating Rose (SLT 130)
*O Light of Life (SLT 117)
Sois La Semilla (NCH 528; FYC 703; UMH 583; CH 478)
The Screams of Police Car Sirens (TIS 694)
*This Little Light of Mine (AAHH 549; SLT 118; NCH 524,525; GC 513; UMH 585)
Voices that Challenge (GC 721) (note: only hymn to use the word “AIDS”)
Walk Together Children (AAHH 541)
*We Are a Gentle, Angry People (SLT 170)
*We’ll Build A Land (SLT 121)
*We Shall Not Give Up the Fight (NCH 437)
*We Shall Overcome (SLT 169; AAHH 542; GC 724; UMH 533; CH 630; NCH 570)
When Israel Was in Egypt’s Land (AAHH 543; SLT 104; CH 663;UMH 448; GC 715; NCH
572)
Healing
*A Promise through the Ages Rings (SLT 344)
At Even When the Sun Was Set (TEH 266)
From Miles around the Sick Ones Came (WLP 774)
Healer of My Soul (R 224)
Healer of Our Every Ill (GC 882; VU 619; CH 506)
Heal Me, Hands of Jesus Sharpe (WLP 773) Sutton Common (UMH 262)
Southwell (CH 504) as a poem (VU 621)
He Touched Me (AAHH 273; UMH 367; CH 564)
*Healing River (GC 584)
I Will Change Your Name (R 225)
O Christ the Healer Invercarry (TIS 638) Erhalt Uns Herr (UMH
265; R 191) Rockingham (CH 503) Kentridge (NCH 175) Kedron (WLP 772)
O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing Azmon (R 32; NCH 42; VU 326; AAHH 184;
CH 5; Lyngham (TIS 210) O God of Love (TEH 446)
Sometimes a Healing Word is Comfort (TIS 692)
There is a Balm in Gilead (GC 648; CH 501; AAHH 524; NCH 553; VU 612; UMH 375)
We Yearn, O Christ for Wholeness (NCH 179)
When Jesus the Healer (VU 358)
Memorial
Christ the Victorious (NCH 367; UMH 653)
Come, Ye (You) Disconsolate (CH 502; UMH 510; AAHH 421)
Cristo Vive (NCH 235; UMH 313)
For All the Saints (UMH 711; TEH 641; AAHH 339; GC 793; CH 637; *SLT 103; VU
705; TIS 455)
God Remembers Pain (VU 610)
*I Cannot Think of Them as Dead (SLT 96)
In the Bulb There Is a Flower (CH 638; NCH 433; UMH 707; VU 703)
*Let Hope and Sorrow Now Unite (SLT 412)
*Part in Peace (SLT 411)
Pues Si Vivimos (NCH 499; CH 536; UMH 356; GC 666)
Shepherd Me, O God (GC 31)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (AAHH 539; CH 643; UMH 703)
A favorite among MCC’ers for many occasions, written by a staff member of
MCC San Francisco and popularized during the AIDS years is “We Are the
Church Alive”. For a Xerox copy of the words and music request one from revjimmitulski@mccchurch.org
Include your complete mailing
address.
*Suitable for Interfaith Use
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