The AIDS Crisis

What We Can Do

By Deborah Dortzbach and W. Meredith Long

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Books
Length: 157 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: November 2006

ISBN-10: 0-8308-3372-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-3372-6
IVP Order Code: 3372

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"I'm delighted that the church is now taking a leading role in addressing this enormous crisis. We need wisdom, compassion and accurate knowledge--exactly what the authors offer in this book."

"The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do is both a well-crafted educational tool and a stirring call to action. Because the authors' insights flow from decades of compassionate engagement with real people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, they offer no simplistic answers. But they do offer hope, if we who call ourselves followers of Jesus will follow him into the midst of this crisis. This book affirmed what I have come to believe--that the scope and tragedy of the AIDS crisis leave Christians with only one appropriate response: to do something, somewhere, now."

"Drawing on extensive personal experience from around the world, Debbie Dortzbach and Meredith Long thoroughly answer the questions of what HIV/AIDS is, strategies to defeat this deadly virus and how to offer compassionate care for someone who is infected. Rich, detailed stories of real people will engage your heart at the same time your mind is being challenged to think in new ways about HIV/AIDS. This book is scientifically up to date, factually accurate, theologically sound, spiritually warm and emotionally engaging!"

Readers will find the book both informative and practical. They will come away from it with a deeper understanding . . . And will find themselves easily desiring to stand up against the power of AIDS.

Dortzbach and Long have spent most of the past 25 years engaged in helping people learn about HIV/AIDS, teaching them to listen, to observe and not to condemn but to partner with others around the world in loving, lobbying, caring, praying and providing for those who suffer from this disease. They offer up-to-date statistics, personal stories of those who are living with HIV/AIDS and suggestions and ideas of how to help.

The modern AIDS epidemic forces the entire world to face death and human degradation. Dortzbach and Long tell us we must not look away. The Gospel demands we do something.

Combining clear data, compelling stories and profound reflections on the pandemic, they create in the reader a sense of urgency to respond and then insightfully describe how to do so. The AIDS Crisis is eminently worth a careful reading . . . and a considered response.