Behavior and Attitudes

Views Towards Infectious Diseases Shape Control Strategies

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 8th, 1999

The views of laypeople regarding the contagiousness of diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis are critical in developing infection control strategies.

Anthropological research in recent years has examined how single diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, malaria and leprosy are conceptualized by laypersons in non-Western societies.

"But how is disease transmission itself interpreted in other cultures'," researcher A. Caprara wrote ("Cultural Interpretation of Contagion," Tropical Medicine and International Health, December 1998;3(12):996-1001).

Data from ethnographical studies in Cote d'Ivoire and the Afro-Brazilian culture...

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