In 2001, in answer to the Diocese's request for further HIV/AIDS education, Blair returned to Mpwapwa. Partnering with local pastors and youth leaders, she sought to help the church develop a compassionate response to HIV/AIDS through the creation of a diocese-wide support network addressing education, prevention, and care for the affected.

Two major seminars were conducted that summer in Mpwapwa. For the first seminar, fifty-seven lay leaders, selected by the sixty local parishes, gathered in Mpwapwa for eight days.

The seminar for lay leaders addressed the question "What is AIDS and what is God calling His church to do in response to this disease?" The lay leaders had received prior training in facilitating God-centered Small Groups and they used this training to begin sharing HIV/AIDS education with the men and women of their villages.

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