The research question: “What are principles that should be taken into consideration when a policy is formulated for a faith-based community to address the challenge of HIV/AIDS?” Formulate a policy for a particular faith-based organisation or community articulating the problems that should be addressed and how they should be addressed, as well as proposing a programme of intervention to be followed via the implementation of this policy.
Although the presentation of this assignment in terms of outline and issues treated may follow your own preference, the following should be integrated in the completion of the assignment:
1. “Faith-based community” can be replaced by “belief-based,” “religiously-based” or even “denominationally-based,” the scene being that of a group of people with vested interests and a particular value system they identify with. A description of the particular community, as the addressees must be provided in the assignment. Particular attention must be paid to the manner in which this community of belief positions itself in and interacts with global discourses related to HIV/AIDS, and how it is locally applied? A reflection of the social hierarchies, as well as the institutional and organisational structure should also be provided.
2. A “problematisation” of how religious discourses and practices generally effect the challenge of HIV/AIDS and people with HIV/AIDS must be provided. This general scenario must be particularised with reference to the faith-based organisation or community treated in the assignment.
3. In addition to the articulation of principles concerned with intervention, support and activism, a clear programme of intervention should constitute a part of the policy. To put it a bit differently: how the institutional and organisational structure of the faith-based organisation or community would be deployed in the implementation of the policy should also be part of this assignment.
Write 5000 to 6000 words