The data showed that people change only after they get the workshop.
So the testing level is going up in general in Zambia.
But we get some 90 percent of our people are tested by the time they come back
three to six months later from the workshop.
And that's pretty phenomenal.
So they're not only hearing and understanding, but
that understanding leads to an action that has an impact on HIV.
And the action we're looking for, the first action, the measurable action,
is did they get tested?
And then there's qualitative actions, now that you know, what do you do with this?
Now that you understand that it's a fragile virus,
it's not God's punishment for sexual sin.
It's not a conspiracy from western countries to take over land.
It's not witchcraft or any of those things, it's just a tiny virus
that is trying to survive and you have the ability to keep it out of your body.
Or if it's already in the body, we have antivirals now that can
keep HIV infection from progressing to AIDS, the disease.
So what are you gonna do with that?
Right? And they do amazing things.
They open schools for vulnerable children in the community who have lost their
parents or whose parents are sick.
They set up, as I mentioned community healthcare workers,
who get trained by government programs.
The programs were already there,
it is just that they were not training church workers.
Or they may open schools for the children as I mentioned.
So they do things once they get it.
They use their community resources, they take people to doctors.
They recommend in premarital counseling that the couple
both go to get HIV tested before they get married.
So it's like turning on a switch.
It's realy pretty amazing to watch.