What Can I Do? [video & facilitator’s guide]

This 49-minute video is designed to combat HIV-related stigma, shame, discrimination and denial in churches. The video features Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha from Uganda allegedly the first African priest to disclose his HIV-positive status. The video is accompanied by a 48-page Facilitator's Guide.

In this video, Canon Gideon suggests that fellow Christians should dispel judgemental attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS. He describes the death of his wife from an HIV-related illness and that he also found out he was HIV-positive.

Canon Gideon has taken his HIV/AIDS ministry to many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as to Asia, Europe and North America. He is driven by the conviction that HIV/AIDS is both a preventable and a manageable illness, providing the barriers of stigma, shame, denial, discrimination and ignorance can be broken down.

The video is divided into segments on topics such as ‘Coping with stigma’, ‘Why be tested for HIV?’ and ‘Challenges for the church’. The accompanying Facilitator’s Guide enables groups to explore in greater depth the issues which the video raises.

Strategies for Hope Trust has a number of free copies available for organisations that cannot afford to purchase these materials.