Culture, HIV and AIDS: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography provides an overview of theoretical perspectives analysing the complex relations between culture, HIV and AIDS. Intended for those working to design culturally appropriate programmes for HIV/AIDS education, each item in this bibliography, organised alphabetically by (lead) author's last name, includes full publication information in addition to a 1-paragraph synopsis culling out the highlights of each document.

The resource is divided into 4 sections. The first ("Part 1: Culture and everyday life: micro and macro approaches") includes literature that examines how culture shapes the pandemic and its impacts. References are grouped into 4 areas:

1. literature that considers how gender roles and power relations shape patterns of vulnerability and levels of risk
2. the growing body of research connecting sexual violence and HIV
3. resources on sexuality and identity which highlight how these factors may provide exposure to or protection from contracting HIV
4. demographic and quantitative literature concerned with how population structure and dynamics can shape epidemics systems of thought, with 2 sub-sections focused on orphans and vulnerable children and migration

A second section follows in Part I, entitled Systems of Thought, describing communities of worship, explanatory systems, bodily practices, and healing systems.

The second ("Part 2: The response to the epidemic: culture of prevention and care") includes references that focus on the response to the epidemic, and situate this response in the broader socio-cultural context. Its 8 sub-parts include:

1. Biomedical responses, impacts, and uptake
2. Behavioural approaches
3. Human rights-based approaches
4. Prevention and education
5. Health systems and policy
6. Civil society
7. Governance, development, and policital economy
8. Security

The (shorter) third and fourth sections include selected literature in Spanish and French, respectively.