About Pacanet

The Church has been through a series of paradigm shifts in the last two decades of battling with HIV/AIDS.

At the beginning of the epidemic, the Church in general, regarded the issue of HIV/AIDS as a problem relating to the homosexual community, prostitutes and any others involved in behaviours and practices deemed unacceptable to its teaching and convictions, and not as a problem within itself needing to be addressed. This was a phase of rejection, stigmatisation, discrimination and condemnation by and from within the Church.

The following phase was ushered in by the realisation that a number of its own members, with credibility and integrity within the Church, started to die in the late 1980s. The Church responded with denial that this could be affecting the Church and therefore in many instances preferred to look at the cause of the deaths as relating to different causes rather than to HIV/AIDS.. ReadMore