HIV/AIDS

Investigators at Columbia University Zero in on HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 27th, 2011

2011 JUN 27 -- According to a study from New York City, United States, "Religious institutions, which contribute to understanding of and mobilization in response to illness, play a major role in structuring social, political, and cultural responses to HIV and AIDS."

"We used institutional ethnography to explore how religious traditions-Catholic, Evangelical, and Afro-Brazilian in Brazil have influenced HIV prevention, treatment, and care at the local and national levels overtime. We present a typology of Brazil's division of labor and uncover overlapping foci grounded in religious ideology and tradition: care of people living with HIV among Catholics and...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2011-06-27)

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