LinksICASO - International Council of AIDS Service Organizations Reading and Resources ‘Community Action on HIV and AIDS' This book is designed to help church leaders in dealing with social, cultural and economic issues related to the AIDS epidemic at community level. It covers topics such as the sexual abuse of children, domestic violence, widow inheritance and property grabbing by relatives - issues which have been exacerbated in many African countries by the AIDS epidemic. The book contain numerous role plays, discussion guidelines, Biblical references, individual case studies and illustrations by African artists. 'Pastoral Action on HIV and AIDS' The book is based on 12 years of experience by the Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), based in Nairobi, Kenya. The author, Nicta Lubaale, is an ordained pastor who has been involved in faith-based and community responses to HIV and AIDS since 1991. This book contains guidelines for training pastors and lay church leaders in addressing the pastoral challenges of the AIDS epidemic. These challenges affect churches in their teachings about sickness and healing, their forms of worship and their pastoral ministries. Toolkit and Facilitator’s manual
This toolkit is a joint effort of the Council for World Mission and WACC for young peer educators to enable them to take a lead role in their respective churches and communities in generating awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS and in developing appropriate strategies and using appropriate communication tools to effect behaviour change. This toolkit also aims at clarifying facts and myths about HIV/AIDS and addresses the issues of stigma and discrimination related to HIV/AIDS to make churches “AIDS competent”. The Code of Good Practice The Code of Good Practice for NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS provides guidance to the work of Supporting NGOs and can be utilized in variety of different ways. Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance manual
This resource will help secular organisations, government structures and multi-lateral partners to better understand and value the contributions of faith-based organisations in responding to HIV&AIDS. This will lead to building more effective and strategic alliances and partnerships. Communication strategies
These are examples of HIV/AIDS projects designed and implemented in different countries and regions by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Centre for Communication Programmes (CCP) to help organisations develop and manage projects and programmes in HIV/AIDS and reproductive health using communication strategies. | 
Stigmatisation and discrimination towards people living with HIV and AIDS increases the difficulties they experience, fuels the spread of HIV and increases the harm it causes. Many well-meaning efforts to address HIV and AIDS are insensitive to gender issues.