Innovative Faith-Community Responses to HIV and AIDS: Summative lessons from Over Two Decades of WorkFootnote^†

^†Some parts of this article have been drawn from a more extensive report (UNAIDS Citation2016), which was supported by UNAIDS as part of the development of a good policy and practice series. All the opinions expressed in this article belong to the authors’ alone, and do not necessarily represent positions or perspectives of any institution, board, state, territory or staff.

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