Anthropology News Commentaries

New Challenges to the AIDS Prevention Paradigm (Edward Green)

AIDS: A Biosocial Problem with Social Solutions (Paul Farmer)

Problems with the Uganda Model for HIV/AIDS Prevention (Douglas Feldman)

HIV/AIDS and Behavior Change: Let’s Add PC to the ABC (Barbara Pillsbury)

Cultural Integration for Effective AIDS Prevention (Elizabeth Onjoro)

AIDS Debate in AN: A Synopsis and Final Comments (Edward C Green)

Susan C McCombie, Talking about Sex & Partners in Luganda (Jan 2003 AN). Discusses the difficulty of translating phrases from English to Luganda for the purpose of conducting a survey about sex in Uganda as part of an AIDS prevention project.

Arachu Castro, Anthropologists as Advocates: Power, Suffering and AIDS(Oct 2004 AN). Calls for a more active criticism of who are the recipients of treatment to alleviate their suffering from AIDS/HIV.

Allison Fissel and Kimber Haddix McKay, Traditional Healer Organizations in Uganda Should Contribute to AIDS Debate (Oct 2004 AN). Anthropologists need to study the role of NGOs in Uganda to provide support for traditional healers.

Katy Moran, Commentary for Consensus on HIV Prevention is Endorsed by Global Experts (Feb 2005 AN). Some 150 experts from over 35 countries endorsed a recent commentary calling for consensus on a renewed public-health focus to prevent sexually-transmitted HIV.

A Global AIDS Consensus? Response to Katy Moran from Douglas A Feldman (May 2005 AN).

Uganda’s HIV Rate Drops, But Not from Abstinence: Study Concludes Bases I Bush Policy Apparently Irrelevant. Sabin Russell, February 24, 2005, SFGate.com. The HIV infection rates have been driven down in Uganda, not through abstinence, but through increased condom use.

Study Challenges Abstinence as Crucial to AIDS Strategy. Lawrence K Altman, February 24, 2005, New York Times. Study conducted by Ugandan scientists and researchers form Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities finds that increase in condom use coincides with decrease in the number of people contracting HIV.

Edward C Green’s response to Altman’s NY Times article.

A consensus statement about what works best in AIDS prevention, endorsed by some 140 well-known scientists who work in AIDS-related fields, Edward C Green, Daniel Halperin, The Lancet, Vol 364, Nov 27, 2004.

Researcher: Faith-based Groups Ignored in AIDS Prevention. Erin Curry, Baptist Press, February 25, 2005. Edward Green talks about his years of research and his recommendation that faith-based groups should be mobilized to recommend abstinence to reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS, because abstinence and changing sexual behaviors works.

For more discussion of this issue by AAA members see the AIDS and Anthropology Research Groups electronic discussion list at http://puffin.creighton.edu/aarg/prevention.html.

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