{"id":5438,"date":"2005-08-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/05\/2005-08-05-hindu-india-challenged-by-aids-crisis\/"},"modified":"2005-08-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T12:00:00","slug":"2005-08-05-hindu-india-challenged-by-aids-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/2005\/08\/05\/2005-08-05-hindu-india-challenged-by-aids-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu India Challenged By Aids Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.religionwatch.com\/\">www.religionwatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW YORK, USA, August 3, 2005: The Religion Watch Newsletter&#8217;s August edition includes the following article:<\/p>\n<p>Religious beliefs can help in the HIV crisis in India, but most Hindu groups and leaders have not yet taken up this work, according to a Yale University medical researcher. In an interview with Science &#038; Theology News (July\/August), Nalini Tarakeshwar says that research of those with HIV-AIDS in India finds that most infected individuals are religious, &#8220;and their religious beliefs provide them with the motivation to persevere in the face of numerous calamities&#8230; for most individuals with HIV, the fact that they are alive is due to God&#8217;s desire to keep them alive.&#8221; Tarakeshwar is convinced that issues of religion and culture have to be integrated within India&#8217;s patient care system. Yet unlike churches, &#8220;Hindu temples or priests do not offer health services or discuss  &#8216;personal&#8217; problems. Most prefer to think of Hinduism as something more personal and that has nothing to do with HIV,&#8221; Tarakeshwar says. She concludes that &#8220;Several Christian missionaries&#8211;World Vision, Catholic Relief Services&#8211;are currently active in providing care and prevention services. Hindu organizations have yet to show initiative.&#8221; (Science &#038; Theology News, P.O. Box 5065, Brentwood, TN 37024-5065). <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.religionwatch.com NEW YORK, USA, August 3, 2005: The Religion Watch Newsletter&#8217;s August edition includes the following article: Religious beliefs can,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namasiv.ai\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}