As a first time participant at this year's AIDS conference, one of the things I saw conspicuously missing was the aspect of sessions involving the faith community and how they are influencing the response to HIV and AIDS response.
This was an area of concern considering the hype that the mushrooming of "faith Healing" especially on the African continent by people who call themselves "men and women of God" who continuously claim they heal people after praying for them. This has prompted many people especially in Africa to flock to these "men and women God" seeking divine healing and in the end many have stopped taking their life-saving medications - which has in some cases led to loss of lives.
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