HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit
Rev Maxwell Kapachawo is the only known pastor in Zimbabwe who publicly admits to being HIV-positive; he is also encouraging any of his peers infected and affected by the disease to speak openly about HIV/AIDS from the pulpit.
Churches in Zimbabwe tend to approach HIV/AIDS as a moral issue, Kapachawo told IRIN, and treat those infected as immoral, but the disease afflicting one in five Zimbabweans between the ages of 15 and 49 should actually be addressed as a medical matter.
The irony was that while many of the country's faith-based organisations were involved in programmes for HIV/AIDS orphans, the pandemic itself was a taboo subject in church corridors.
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