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Cultural Aspect of AIDS

Selected and compiled by Jacquelyn Coughlan, M.S., M.L.S.

Abebe, D., Debella, A., Dejene, A., Degefa, A., Abebe, A., Urga, K., & Ketema, L. (2005). Khat chewing habit as a possible risk behaviour for HIV infection: A case-control study. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, 19(3), 174-181.

Administration for Children & Families. (2003). Office of Refugee Resettlement: Special medical conditions. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/techasst/irsa_hiv.htm

Agyei, W. K., & Migadde, M. (1995). Demographic and sociocultural factors influencing contraceptive use in Uganda. Journal of Biosocial Science, 27(1), 47-60.

Ali, M. M. (2001). Sexual risk behavior in urban populations of Northeastern Africa. AIDS and Behavior, 5(4), 343-352.

Amuyunzu-Nayamongo, M., Tendo-Wambua, L., Babishangire, B., Nyagero, J., Yitbarek, N., et al. (1999). Barriers to behaviour change as a response to STD including HIV/AIDS: The East African experience. In J. C. Caldwell, P. Caldwell, J. Anarfi, K. Awusabo-Asare, J. Ntozi, et al. (Eds.), Resistances to behavioural change to reduce HIV/AIDS infection in predominantly heterosexual epidemics in third world countries (pp. 35-39). Canberra: Health Transition Centre.

Ankrah, E. M. (1993). The impact of HIV/AIDS on the family and other significant relationships: The African clan revisited. AIDS Care- Psychological and Socio-Medican Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 5(1), 5-22.

Baer, R. D., Weller, S. C., Garcia, J., & Rocha, A. L. (2004). A comparison of community and physician explanatory models of AIDS in Mexico and the United States. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 18, 3-22.

Baldwin, J., Rolf, R., Johnson, J., Bowers, J., Benally, C., & Trotter, R. (1996). Developing culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention curricula for Native American youth. Journal of School Health, 66, 322-327.

Beyene, Y. (2000). Potential HIV risk behaviors among Ethiopians and Eritreans in the Diaspora: A bird's-eye view. Northeast African Studies, 7, 119-142.

Bhattacharya, G. (2004). Health care seeking for HIV/AIDS among South Asians in the United States. Health & Social Work, 29, 106-.

Bringing comprehensives HIV prevention to scale. Retrieved April 17, 2006, from http://www.unaids.org/bangkok2004/GAR2004_html/GAR2004_06_en.htm

Carrillo, H. (2002). The night is young: Sexuality in Mexico in the time of AIDS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cho, H., & Witte, K. (2005). Managing fear in public health campaigns: A theory-based formative evaluation process. Health Promotion Practice, 6(4), 482-490.

Cuthbert-Allman, C. (1996). Crossing cultural barriers to care for people with AIDS. Caring, 15(8), 14-18.

Dada-Adegbola, H. O. (2004). Socio-cultural factors affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa: A case study. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 33(2), 179-182.

De Allegri, M., Sarker, M., Hofmann, J., Sanon, M., & Böhler, T. (February 2007). A qualitative investigation into knowledge, beliefs, and practices surrounding mastitis in sub-Saharan Africa: What implications for vertical transmission of HIV? BioMed Central Public Health, 7(22).

Delgado, M., & Santiago, J. (March 1998). HIV/AIDS in a Puerto Rican/Dominican community: A Collaborative project with a botanical shop. Social Work, 43(2), 183-186.

DeMarco, R., & Norris, A. E. (2004). Culturally relevant HIV interventions: Transcending ethnicity. Journal of Cultural Diversity, 11(2), 65-68.

Deren, S., Shedlin, M., & Beardsley, M. (1996, August). HIV-related concerns and behaviors among Hispanic women. AIDS Education and Prevention, 8(4), 335-342.

Doyal, L., & Anderson, J. (2005). 'My fear is to fall in love again...' How HIV-positive African women survive in London. Social Sciences & Medicine, 60(8), 1729-1738.

Duffy, L. (2005). Suffering, shame, and silence: The stigma of HIV/AIDS. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 16, 13-20.

Duffy, L. (2005). Culture and context of HIV prevention in rural Zimbabwe: The influence of gender inequality. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 16(1), 23-31.

Edubio, A., & Sabanadesan, R. (2001). African communities in Northern Europe and HIV/AIDS. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://212.206.44.60/systeem3/pdf/report_african_communities.pdf

The European Commission and Aids Fonds. (n.d.) African communities in Northern Europe and HIV/AIDS. Retrieved March 28th, 2007, from http://212.206.44.60/systeem3/pdf/report_african_communities.pdf

Farmer, P. (1990). Sending sickness: Sorcery, politics, and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 4, 6-27.

Field, M. G. (July 2004). HIV and AIDS in the former Soviet Bloc. New England Journal of Medicine, 351(2), 117-120.

Foley, E. E. (November 2005). HIV/AIDS and African immigrant women in Philadelphia: Structural and cultural barriers to care. AIDS care, 17(8), 1030-1043.

Gillesple, M. M. (2005). HIV/AIDS-preventive behavior in recent-immigrant Jamacian women. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Go, V. F., Sethulakshmi, C. J., & Bentley, M. E. (2003). When HIV-prevention messages and gender norms clash: The impact of domestic violence on women's HIV risk in slums of Chennai, India. AIDS and Behavior, 7(3), 263-272.

Green, E. C. (1992). Sexually transmitted disease, ethnomedicine and AIDS in Africa. Social Science and Medicine, 35, 121-130.

Green, E. C. (1994). AIDS and STDs in Africa: Bridging the gap between traditional healers and modern medicine. Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press.

Green, E. C. (1999). Engaging indigenous African healers in the prevention of AIDS and STDs. In R. A. Hann (Ed.), Anthropology and public health: Bridging difference in culture and society. Oxford: University Press.

Haupt, T. C., Munshi, M., & Smallwood, J. (2005). HIV and AIDS in South African construction: Is age nothing but a number? Construction Management and Economics, 23(1), 107-120.

Heald, S. (2004). Reflections on anthropology and AIDS policy and practice in Africa. Peripherie, 24, 113-138.

Holt, B. Y., et al. (2003). Planning STI/HIV prevention among refugees and mobile populations: Situation assessment of Sudanese refugees. Disasters, 27(1), 1-15.


Ingstad, B. (1990). The cultural construction of AIDS and its consequences for prevention in Botswana. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 4, 28-40.

Jones, G. (2006). The elephant and the road: God and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 126(3), 114-115.

Kaplan, E. H., Soskolne, V., Adler, B., Leventhal, A., & Shtarkshall, R. A. (2002). A model-based evaluation of a cultural mediator outreach program for HIV+ Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Evaluation Review, 26, 382.

Khishkowy, B., Edman, R., Maayan, S. Resoenwein, H., & Naveh, P. (1996). HIV care for Ethiopian immigrants in an Israeli family practice. Families, Systems & Health, 14(1), 73-81.

Klunklin, A., & Greenwood, J. (2005). Buddhism, the status of women and the spread of HIV/AIDS in Thailand. Health Care for Women International, 26(1), 46-61.

Lambert, H., & Wood, K. (2005). A comparative analysis of communication about sex, health and sexual health in India and South Africa: Implications for HIV prevention. Culture, Health, and Sexuality, 7(6), 527-541.

Landau, G., & York, A. S. (2004). Keeping and disclosing a secret among people with HIV in Israel. Health and Social Work, 29(2), 116-126.

Laguerre, M. (1987). Afro-Caribbean folk medicine. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey.

Lawson, A. L. (1999). Women and AIDS in Africa: Sociocultural dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. International Social Science Journal, 51, 391-400.

Lazarus, J. V., et al. (2006). HIV/AIDS knowledge and condom use among Somali and Sudanese immigrants in Denmark. Scandanavian Journal of Public Health, 34(1), 92-99.

LeClerc-Madlala, S. (2001). Demonising women in the era of AIDS: On the relationship between cult constructions of both HIV/AIDS and femininity. Society in Transition, 32, 38-46.

Liddell, C., Barrett, L., & Bydawell, M. (2004). Indigenous representations of illness and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 60, 691-700.

Lindgren, T., Rankin, S. H., & Rankin, W. W. (2005). Malawi women and HIV: Socio-cultural factors and barriers to prevention. Women & Health, 41(1), 69-86.

Livingston, I. L. (1993). HIV/AIDS control in Africa: The importance of epidemiological and health promotion approaches. Health Promotion International, 8, 189-198.

Longfield, K. (2004). Rich fools, spare tyres and boyfriends: Partner categories, relationship dynamics and Ivorian women's risk for STIs and HIV. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 6(6), 483-500.

Lugalla, J. L., Emmelin, M. A., Mutembei, A. K., Comoro, C. J., Killewo, J. Z., et al. (1999). The social and cultural contexts of HIV/AIDS transmission in the Kagera Region, Tanzania. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 34, 377-402.

Luke, N. (April 2002). Widows and "Professional Inheritors": Understanding AIDS Risk Perceptions in Kenya.
Author can be contacted at nluke@brown.edu

MacDonald, D. S. (1996). Notes on the socio-economic and cultural factors influencing the transmission of HIV in Botswana. Social Science and Medicine, 42, 1325-1333.

Macintyre K., Brown L., & Sosler, S. "It's not what you know, but who you knew": Examining the relationship between behavior change and AIDS mortality in Africa. AIDS Education and Prevention, 13(2), 160-174.

Marin, B. (2003). HIV prevention in the Hispanic community, sex, culture, and enpowerment. Journal of Transcultural Nusring, 14(3), 186-192.

Martin, M. A., Rissmiller, P., & Beal, J. A. (1995). Health-illness beliefs and practices of Haitians with HIV disease living in Boston. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 6(6), 45-53.

Mashegoane, S., Maolusi, K. P., Ngoepe, M. A., & Peltzer, K. (2004). The prediction of condom use intention among South African university students. Psychological Reports, 95(2), 407-411.

Maticka-Tyndale, E., Gallant, M., Brouillard-Coyle, C., Holland, D., Metcalfe, K., Wildish, J., & Gichuru, M. (2005). The sexual scripts of Kenyan young people and HIV prevention. Culture, Health, & Sexuality, 7(1), 27-41.

Mill, J. E. (2001, August). I'm not a "basabasa" woman: An explanatory model of HIV illness in Ghanaian women. Clinical Nursing Research, 10(3), 254-274.

Minnesota Department of Human Services. (n.d.). HIV/AIDS division case management training introduction. Retrieved October 15, 2007, from http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs_id_017788.pdf

Minnesota International Health Volunteers. (2004). Community responses to HIV/AIDS: Focus groups with Somali community members. Retrieved September 12, 2005, from http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/hcp/hivsomali.pdf

Morales, J., & Bok, M. (1992). Multicultural human services for AIDS treatment and prevention: Policy perspectives and planning. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press.

Murphy, E. M., Greene, M. E., Mihailovic, A., & Olupot-Olupot, P. (September 2006). Was the "ABC" approach (abstinence, being faithful, using condoms) responsible for Uganda's decline in HIV? PLoS medicine, 3(9), 1443-1447.

Muula, A. S. (2005). What should HIV/AIDS be called in Malawi? Nursing Ethics, 12(7), 187-192.

Muula, A. S. & Mfutso-Bengo, J. M. (2004). Important but neglected ethical and cultural considerations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Nursing Ethics, 11(5), 479-488.

Muyinda, H., Seely, J., Pickering, H., Barton, T. (1997). Social aspects of AIDS-related stigma in rural Uganda. Health & Place, 3(3), 143-147.

Nakyonyi M. M. (1993). HIV/AIDS education participation by the African community. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 84, s29-s23.

Naur, M. (2000). Traditional medicine and AIDS. IK Notes, 26, 1-3.

New York State Department of Health. (n.d.) Required HIV related consent and authorization forms. Retrieved September 7, 2007 from http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/aids/forms/informedconsent.htm

Office of Minority Health. (n.d.). Asian and Pacific Islanders HIV/AIDS Resources. Retrieved September 28, 2005, from http://www.omhrc.gov/hivaidsobservances/api/api_resources.html

Ortiz, C. E. (2005). Disclosing concerns of Latinas living with HIV/AIDS. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 16(3), 210-217.

Public Health- Seattle & King County. (n.d.) African Immigrant Project. Retrieved October 10, 2007, from http://www.metrokc.gov/health/apu/publications/African-Immigrant-Project.pdf

Rankin, W., W., Brennan, S., Schell, E., Laviwa, J., & Rankin, S., J. (2005). The stigma of being HIV positive in Africa. Public Library of Science Journal of Medicine, 8, e247.

Reidpath, D. D., & Chan, K. Y. (2005). HIV discrimination: Integrating the results from a six-country situational analysis in the Asia Pacific. AIDS Care, 17(Supplement 2), S195-S204.

Richter, D. L., Harris, M. J., Coker, A. L., & Fraser, J. (2001). Limiting the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone: Opportunities for intervention. Journal of Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 12(5), 48-54.

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