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Beyond faith-based organizations: Using comparative institutional ethnography to understand religious responses to HIV and AIDS in Brazil

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  • Muñoz-Laboy, M.A.
  • Murray, L.
  • Wittlin, N.
  • Garcia, J.
  • Terto Jr., V.
  • Parker, R.G.

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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 over time. 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 Afro-Brazilians, abstinence education among Catholics and Evangelicals, prevention within marginalized communities among Evangelicals and Afro-Brazilians, and access to treatment among all traditions. We conclude that institutional ethnography, which allows for multilevel and inter level analysis, is a useful methodology.

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  • Muñoz-Laboy, M.A. & Murray, L. & Wittlin, N. & Garcia, J. & Terto Jr., V. & Parker, R.G., 2011. "Beyond faith-based organizations: Using comparative institutional ethnography to understand religious responses to HIV and AIDS in Brazil," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 101(6), pages 972-978.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2010.300081_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.300081
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