Abstract

Having summarily studied the strict ly epidemiological aspects of AIDS, the author gives us some pastoral reflections : AIDS is a disease and not a divine punishment ; it is an interpellation ofour Churches : a duty to educate to true values especially those of welcoming and assistance. In the présence of thèse new urgencies, the Christian community becomes more inventive and the article proposes numerous examples. The author tries to disentan- gle the various tensions arising round this menacing plague : how obtain an alliance between public health and the protection of individual freedom ? How to guarantee the indispensable information as well as the préventive means without compro- mising moral health ? What are the duties of the health-carer towards the patients, ofthe rich countries towards the Third-World ? The AIDS' crisis and the urgency it créâtes, offers in a pressing but positive way the possibility to state once again the place and meaning of sex in humans' relational life and to restore the meaning which the institution of marriage and fidelity in marriage offer to sex.

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