WHY A 12-STEP PROGRAM FOR HIV?
There are many people with HIV/AIDS whose emotions and/or behavior is destroying them; this is putting an unnecessary burden on many of their loved ones. They may have drinking, smoking, eating, fitness, psychological, and sexual issues that need to be addressed. They may have unresolved issues regarding treatment. Some may be living
in fear that others will find out that they are HIV Positive. Others may need to “come to believe that a power greater than themselves exists.” They do not believe in God or a Higher Power, or their relationship with their Higher Power is faltering.

There are other people who need to learn how to assess all facets of their health (clean house), trust their Higher Power, and unload the guilt, shame, and depression that is holding them in bondage (whether they are aware of it or not).  Many other people have by now transformed the stumbling block of HIV into a steppingstone.  They have learned how to live happy, healthy, and normal lives. Here, they can use their experience, strength, and hope to help others.

This guide book uses a “Higher Power of your understanding” approach. This nonreligious
approach hosts everyone regardless of race, creed, religion, or lack of religion, or sexual orientation.

HIV Anonymous Positive Attitudes offers guidelines for a variety of meeting formats.

HIVAnonymous.com Website

HIVA
We encourage you to understand how this fellowship is assisting in the enlightenment of millions of people worldwide.  We have seen many gain the courage to face the fears, and overcome the stigma associated with HIV.  Click on the link below for the Mission and Purpose of the organization.

Mission and Purpose of HIVA

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BASIC STRUCTURE OF HIV ANONYMOUS
HIV Anonymous is designed to bring together HIV patients, family members, friends, and health care professionals, along with their experiences, to help provide support to everyone affected by HIV and AIDS.  The HIV Anonymous website is intended to be a road map to the Internet for those infected with, affected by, or at risk for contracting HIV. This interactive website will help you locate and meet people who have HIV.

Online meetings and face-to-face meetings provide a confidential place where members can discuss problems, solutions, therapy, side effects, costs, insurance issues, employment, disability benefits, effects of and treatment for depression, etc.  HIV Anonymous meetings provide a place where people can share their experiences, strengths, and hope, as well as their inexperience, weakness, and despair. Together, we can learn to deal constructively with spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional concerns.
Members provide support and useful medical information for people infected with or affected by HIV. Members can also learn skills to employ to deal with personal issues and learn to communicate with others about the disease.

The URL for the HIV Anonymous website is:
http://www.hivanonymous.com

HIV Anonymous Website

HIVA INTRODUCTION
This program is a guide to assist those who desire to grow in divine awareness as a
result of affliction. We are merely identifying and working with this sanctifying process.  Many of today’s commonly cured illnesses were chronic or potentially terminal illnesses until 1928, when penicillin was discovered. The onset of HIV and the array of other diseases has merely reinstated the age-old pattern. The process of coming to terms with HIV or any illness is part of a universal process of sanctification.

One thing is clear: if we don’t have the willingness to work toward spiritual
transformation, continued spiritual development, and nurturing our physical health, we must ultimately see this potentially sanctifying process as becoming a hollow waste of our lives.  Illness is a great adversary. However, if it were not for illness and hardship and all of their limitations, many of us would surely go our way with little attention to our attitudes and actions. It seems that hardship can chasten even the most distracted mind.

Our program does not simply borrow from other fellowships that have used the
principles of the Twelve Steps; the strategic dynamics of HIVA are tailored to meet the needs of everyone infected with or affected by HIV.  Having a basic familiarity with spiritual principles and concepts may help you better understand the primary issues. However, even with limited spiritual knowledge, this program can help you learn how and where to begin your journey.

This program is a guide to help individuals who have found the courage to dedicate themselves to a spiritual way of life, to merge with joyousness in the pursuit of life as our Higher Power intended, and to act in the personal duty of helping others.
There are many of us who are satisfied with our thoughts, content with our knowledge, while living in perpetual ignorance. We emphasize that with diligent efforts to thoroughly investigate and comprehend this program, the possibility of seeing through those thoughts and that ignorance can begin to take root. The desire for spiritual knowledge and real integrity can then blossom.

HIV Anonymous is a continuing education and recovery process that helps us to develop spiritually. Spiritual growth is a key factor in the acceptance of life on life’s terms. We then reach a final blessed state, marked by the absence of false pride and the absence of self-sufficiency: enlightenment.

Introduction