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

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

American Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 101, issue 6, 972-978

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2011
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