THE REVEREND CANON TED KARPF is the partnerships officer in the Office of the Director-General's Representative for Partnerships and UN Reform at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.J. TODD FERGUSON is Research Associate, Ethics Group, American Medical Association, USA.ROBIN YAEGER SWIFT is Director of the Clergy Health Initiative, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. JEFFREY V. LAZARUS works at the Communicable Diseases Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe, and is on the faculty at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

'HIV/AIDS is devastating the world, especially the vulnerable and the poor, who bear the brunt of humiliation, discrimination and stigma. Restoring Hope is a heartfelt plea from different faiths, and philosophical and ethical perspectives for decent care, which treats people living with HIV as collaborators. It is a plea, I pray we heed.' - Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa 'This collection of 17 essays is a thoughtful discourse that beautifully integrates philosophical, socio-political, and spiritual perspectives.' - Susan Bauer-Wu, NightingaleDeclaration.net 'This is a book for visionaries,for realists, for strategists and for carers...whatever your starting point, read this book and allow it to change your perceptions and your practice.' - HIV Medicine 'This book fills a void in the literature in that it is perhaps the first book to provide a rationale for decent care that extends across most of the world's major belief systems.' - Central European Journal of Public Health

• Preface; S.Matic Foreword; T.Karpf , T.Ferguson , R.Swift  and J.Lazarus Introduction – Decent Care: A Proposal for the Future of HIV Care and Support; T.Ferguson Restoring Hope; T.Karpf The Demand for Equity; K.Moody Decency in a Globalizing World: Care of People Living with HIV; E.Mendieta HIV and AIDS, Decent Care and the Traditions of the Catholic Social Teaching; P.Hughes The Biblical Mandate to Care and Cure; D.Rosen An Islamic View of Health and Sickness: How our Core Values Promote Decent Care; S.Elzenari Decent Care for People Living with HIV: What are we Waiting For?; A-C.d'Adesky  and K.Anastos Care in a Season of AIDS: An Islamic Perspective; F.Esack Towards a State of Good Health: A Dharmic View of HIV; S.Agnivesh A Buddhist Perspective on Decent Care; N.Panichpant-Michelsen Decent Care for Life; G.R.Gunderson  and T.F.Cutts Decent Care and HIV: A Holistic Approach; E.Mombo Ubi Caritas? Care as Faith in Action; D.M.Ackermann A Patient-Centred Approach to Universal Decent Care; S.Sofaer Universal Access to Compassion and Empathy, a Cornerstone of Decent Care; L.Dossey From GIPA to CAP: A New Model to Health Entitlement; C.E.Crain  and N.Tashima 'Have you no Sense of Decency, Sir?'; D.Barr