- Authors
- Jenkins, Carol and Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu
- Title
- Cultures and Contexts Matter: Understanding and Preventing HIV in the Pacific
- Imprint
- Asian Development Bank, Manila, 2007, 165 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-971-561-618-8
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Asian Development Bank.
- Abstract
"The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has long acknowledged the need to look at the factors that create vulnerability to HIV, including socioeconomic situations, legal and political contexts, instability and armed conflict, migration, sociocultural ideologies and practices, and social change (UNAIDS, 1998). However, few in-depth studies are available on the interrelationships between culture, contexts, ideologies, norms and values, sexualities, attitudes, and behaviors in the Pacific. This publication seeks to fill that knowledge gap, providing insight into the great diversity of cultures and traditions in the Pacific; the changes that these cultures have undergone and their impact; and the similarities and contrasts in contexts, ideologies, attitudes, and practices that might be facilitating the spread of HIV epidemics in PNG and in other PICT."
Related Entries
Countries
Inter-Governmental Organisations
- Asian Development Bank (1966 - )
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, United Nations (1996 - )
- United Nations Childrens Fund, United Nations (1946 - )