Introduction: identifying the barriers to an AIDS ministry
The history of AIDS
The cause of AIDS
The epidemiology of AIDS
The clinical manifestations of AIDS
The treatment of AIDS
The prevention and control of AIDS
Overcoming barriers: the background for an AIDS ministry
Crossing the barriers through compassion
Other motivations for an AIDS ministry
Caregiving to the AIDS patient
Ministering to sideline victims of the AIDS crisis
Broader concerns of an AIDS ministry
Epilogue: toward an interventionalist ethic.