Beyond Faith-Based Organizations

Using Comparative Institutional Ethnography to Understand Religious Responses to HIV and Aids in Brazil

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ID11032100
AutoresMiguel A Muñoz-Laboy (Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy, Laura Murray, Natalie Wittlin, and Richard G. Parker are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Jonathan Garcia is with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Veriano Terto Jr is with the Interdisciplinary Brazilian AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.), Laura Murray (0000-0001-8409-4697, Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy, Laura Murray, Natalie Wittlin, and Richard G. Parker are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Jonathan Garcia is with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Veriano Terto Jr is with the Interdisciplinary Brazilian AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.), Natalie Wittlin (Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy, Laura Murray, Natalie Wittlin, and Richard G. Parker are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Jonathan Garcia is with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Veriano Terto Jr is with the Interdisciplinary Brazilian AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.), Jonathan Garcia (0000-0002-3536-3376, Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy, Laura Murray, Natalie Wittlin, and Richard G. Parker are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Jonathan Garcia is with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Veriano Terto Jr is with the Interdisciplinary Brazilian AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.), Veriano Terto Jr (Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy, Laura Murray, Natalie Wittlin, and Richard G. Parker are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Jonathan Garcia is with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Veriano Terto Jr is with the Interdisciplinary Brazilian AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.), Richard G Parker (Miguel A. Muñoz-Laboy, Laura Murray, Natalie Wittlin, and Richard G. Parker are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Jonathan Garcia is with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Veriano Terto Jr is with the Interdisciplinary Brazilian AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.)
Año2011
Volumen101
Número6
Páginas972-978
Fecha de publicación2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2010.300081
PMID21493944
PMCIDPMC3093277
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas25

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 interlevel analysis, is a useful methodology