Hence, church members and volunteers join family members in caring for the dying. The Church preaches chastity and abstinence from sex except in the context of marriage, he said. We point out that all people are sinners. No one is free of sin. Once someone has contracted HIV we teach that the person must become the object of love rather than condemnation.
Some citizens resent the duty.
We tell parents they are leaving behind certain gifts for their children. We work hard to be a source of comfort to the dying and we tell them that people who are concerned will be here to look after their children. Our message is that Christ is risen and is the hope of the world, and so we work to give people that message of hope. We may not understand that purpose right now, but we may come to understand it later. Complicating Zimbabwe's already tragic health picture is the political and economic uncertainty confronting the nation, which gained its independence from the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith in the early 1980s.