About Our Name
Does our name seem strange to you? Many find it difficult to see a connection between HIV and Hope. Is there really hope in the context of HIV and AIDS?
The answer is a resounding YES! There is great hope.
It’s not just the wonderful hope that is now available through medications (specifically antiretrovirals) that are providing tremendous hope for longer and healthier lives for people living with HIV.
More than that, the focus of HIVHope International is on motivating people with hope. This includes motivation to make healthy life-choices as well as motivation to minister to those who are living with HIV. For those who are already living with HIV, the goal is motivation to make the choices that will keep them healthy and productive.
To that end, we empower people around the world to be effective HIV educators using positive motivators based on giving hope.
A key understanding is that HIV is not just about disease or science or medicine or facts or statistics. It’s about people! None of the facts is of any importance except as it impacts people. Too often those of us involved in HIV focus on other things and lose sight of the fact that it is people who are important. The result is that they lose their effectiveness.
But people are different. Effective motivators for one person will not be effective for others. Effective motivators where I live in North America will not work in cultures in Africa or Asia or Latin America or Europe. In fact, what works in one part of Africa, for example, probably will not work in other areas because the cultures are so different.
Effective motivation must come from within a culture, not from outsiders. This is a major reason that so many efforts to address the disease have not been very successful. People in the West (North America and Europe) develop materials, messages, strategies and take them to other parts of the world where they train local people to teach what they have developed. The response from the audience is too often something like, “Those ideas may make sense others, but they do not apply to the way I live.”
Local people in each culture must be equipped and empowered to develop ways of addressing HIV with hope that are unique to their own culture.
Yes, this is a major undertaking. It may seem impossible. But, it can be done by motivating people with hope rather than just facts and fear.
Will you join us in this huge task? Your involvement can take any of a variety of forms. Please click “Join Us" to learn more about how you can be part of this exciting ministry. One of the most important ways you can be involved is by praying regularly for HIVHope. Another is to invest in this work financially by clicking on "Donate" above.
There is much to be done. Let’s do it together!
The answer is a resounding YES! There is great hope.
It’s not just the wonderful hope that is now available through medications (specifically antiretrovirals) that are providing tremendous hope for longer and healthier lives for people living with HIV.
More than that, the focus of HIVHope International is on motivating people with hope. This includes motivation to make healthy life-choices as well as motivation to minister to those who are living with HIV. For those who are already living with HIV, the goal is motivation to make the choices that will keep them healthy and productive.
To that end, we empower people around the world to be effective HIV educators using positive motivators based on giving hope.
A key understanding is that HIV is not just about disease or science or medicine or facts or statistics. It’s about people! None of the facts is of any importance except as it impacts people. Too often those of us involved in HIV focus on other things and lose sight of the fact that it is people who are important. The result is that they lose their effectiveness.
But people are different. Effective motivators for one person will not be effective for others. Effective motivators where I live in North America will not work in cultures in Africa or Asia or Latin America or Europe. In fact, what works in one part of Africa, for example, probably will not work in other areas because the cultures are so different.
Effective motivation must come from within a culture, not from outsiders. This is a major reason that so many efforts to address the disease have not been very successful. People in the West (North America and Europe) develop materials, messages, strategies and take them to other parts of the world where they train local people to teach what they have developed. The response from the audience is too often something like, “Those ideas may make sense others, but they do not apply to the way I live.”
Local people in each culture must be equipped and empowered to develop ways of addressing HIV with hope that are unique to their own culture.
Yes, this is a major undertaking. It may seem impossible. But, it can be done by motivating people with hope rather than just facts and fear.
Will you join us in this huge task? Your involvement can take any of a variety of forms. Please click “Join Us" to learn more about how you can be part of this exciting ministry. One of the most important ways you can be involved is by praying regularly for HIVHope. Another is to invest in this work financially by clicking on "Donate" above.
There is much to be done. Let’s do it together!