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Christian medical team launches study to fight AIDS

Members of The Evangelical Alliance Mission, or TEAM, are on the frontlines of the HIV crisis in Zimbabwe, reports MNN.

Roughly 15-percent of Zimbabwe's population are AIDS orphans or widows. Dan and Julie Stephens say TEAM Zimbabwe has developed a new HIV initiative study and is actively recruiting for this need.

They write: "Pray as Karanda Hospital and TEAM Zimbabwe strive to have an impact on this crisis and for Karanda Hospital's HIV/AIDS treatment program in which 2700 people are enrolled."

Karanda Mission Hospital was established in northeast Zimbabwe in the late 1950s to assist the work of church development through holistic medical work in an under-served area of the country.

A nursing school was established in the early 1960s to provide medical personnel to staff the hospital. An elementary school serves to hospital staff children so that staff are able to remain in an underpriveleged area of Zimbabwe.

TEAM's goal at Karanda is to provide demonstrate the compassion of Christ through medical work, strengthen the local church through participation in spiritual ministry to patients and local communities; educating and training Christian professionals for medical ministry through the hospital and nursing school, and facilitating the training of leaders for the local church.

Their group ministers in cooperation with the local church in evangelism and church planting. They are looking for health care professionals, educators, administrators, community health specialists and people skilled in trades to join the team at Karanda Hospital.

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TAGS: Zimbabwe The Evangelical Alliance Mission Christian medical team AIDS evangelism HIV crisis in Zimbabwe

[02/23/2010]

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