I have worked hands on voluntarily with AIDS patients, and continue to support those with AIDS.
I am said to state the closed faces I note when teaching in classes the closed, judgemental faces and the lack of compassion. I use three main teaching mores,viz:

The good woman who has been faithful throughout life until her husband passes and who marries again, with no knowledge of the past relationship history of her new husband.

Those of cultural background such as some of the Pacific Islanders and West Africans where is is considered appropriate that the brother of a deceased man should have that man's children by his widow in order to keep the deceased's family line going.

Those who it has recently been discovered to have contracted the virus from having organ transplants.

"Judge not, for as ye judge, ye shall be judged also" needs to be remembered by many.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta summed it up:

The greatest sin is the absence of love or charity - the terrible indifference toward the neighbour who right on the street falls victim to exploitation, to corruption, to starving and to sickness.

Katherine Lloyd

katherine.lloyd@wideband.net.au