Each year on the last Sunday of August, faith communities across America pause to reckon with a quiet contradiction at their center: the same traditions that teach mercy and care for the vulnerable have, for many people living with HIV, become sources of shame rather than sanctuary. Now in its ninth year, National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day — born from RAHMA's 2017 conviction that religious life must make room for those with HIV — draws together Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others in a shared act of moral accountability. The observance does not ask faith communities to abandon t
Faith Communities Unite to Combat HIV Stigma on National Awareness Day
People living with HIV face stigma within faith communities that can turn places of spiritual refuge into sources of turmoil and discrimination.