Religious Communities

Examples of community and culturally specific interventions:

• The Sex Talk: A Muslim’s Guide to Healthy Sex & Relationships is a self-guided reflection workbook for Muslims to break the ice around uncomfortable conversations and create safe, healthy relationships.
• Faith-based organizations have a role in  a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy because of their capacity for building awareness, mobilizing communities, and reducing HIV-related stigma: HIV and the Faith Community
• The Outreach Enhancement: Faith-Based Organizations Program is a collaboration between Black Health, Inc. and faith-based organizations: Faith Based Initiative

Examples of policy and structural change:

• Religious Landscape Study: Views about Abortion

Recommended readings:

• Working with Faith-Based Communities to Develop an Education Toolkit on Relationships, Sexuality, and Contraception
• Love with No Exceptions: A faith-based, university-community partnership for faith-based HIV training and assessment of needs in the Deep South[ii]
• Abortion, Justice, and Religion

Organizations highlight:

• Catholics for Choice
• Florida Interfaith Coalition for Reproductive Health and Justice
• HEART
• National Council of Jewish Women
• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)