Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS

Abstracts approved by October 15th,  2005

Special session: The Story of a the family of an AIDS Victim in India

Presented by Dr. Diwakar Tejaswi , Lohianagar, Kankarbagh , Patna, India

Special session: Nomás mientras me muero: Crónica de 20 años de vivir con VIH.

Presented by Horacio Mejia, Mexico City

Special session: Teatro y SIDA, 

Presented by Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
UNESCO México.

VIH/SIDA : Entre la noticia, la persecusión y el desprecio. Apuntes de una Hemerografía de la Enfermedad II parte,

por Miguel Alonso Hernández Victoria (ENAH)

L. Majalia Mjomba

Bloomsburg University

Making it Sweet: Somali Refugees, HIV/AIDS, and the Creation of a Community Public Health Video

Alicia Blum-Ross

Department of Anthropology

Oxford University

Lo Que se Esconde al Final del Arcoiris: Narratives of Social Oppression Among Latino Immigrant Gay & Bisexual Men within the U.S. Gay Community

Luis Enrique Ciprez

Cesar Chavez Research Institute

San Francisco State University

AIDS, Alterity and Images of Suffering: Moments in the Discursive History of a Crisis in India

Kavita Misra

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

Yale University

Activism, Advocacy, Empowerment, Lobbying and Political Power in HIV/AIDS 2005

José F. Colón and Anselmo Fonseca

Pacientes de SIDA pro Política Sana, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Vih/Sida Santeria & Hierbas Medicinales
Sergio Suarez
Miami Dade County Health Department Office Hiv/Aids

Re-Creating Dominant Ideologies: The "Virgin Cure" in the Postmodern Moment

Katharine Dargis

Department of Anthropology

American University, Washington D.C.

Vulnerability of Displaced Women and Children to HIV/AIDS in West Africa

Gudi E. Wesley

HILLS, Monrovia, Liberia

Stigma and Discrimination related to HIV/AIDS in West Africa

Lionel F Morgan

UCOW/HILLS, Monrovia, Liberia

Development of HIV/AIDS e-VCT response services: Exploratory survey on the suitability of the initiative in addressing juvenile problems in Nigeria.

[A case study of Anambra state, Enugu state, and Delta state]

Morris Ifeanyi Igwe

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (Nigeria)

The 7 Foundation

Cultural practices that affect the spread of hiv/aids among women in Sub-Saharan Africa  - Case study: Women in Kayole, Kenya

Crown Abiola

Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Kenya

HIV/AIDS: A Threat to Indian Feminism

Kumar Parag

University of Allahabad, India

The United States media and the increase of AIDS in the Caribbean

Jerome Teelucksingh

University of Trinidad and Tobago.

AIDS and Culture: An ambivalent correlation?

Birungi Charles

Diocesan HIV/AIDS Focal Point

Hoima Catholic Diocese

Uganda

Ill will: The science and politics of AIDS dissent controversy.

Cailean Andrew Todd

ESRC INNOGEN Centre/The Centre for African Studies - 

Edinburgh University

United Kingdom

AIDS and the Infection of Narrative in Recent Gay Fiction

Richard R. Bozorth

Dept. of English

Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX

What are the benefits to Mexico of allowing AIDS clinics to operate in the country?

James W. Adams & Ruth Massingill-Pate

UCLA/Sam Houston State University

Entering a World of Play: An Oral Life History

Martin J. Downing Jr

Environmental Psychology Subprogram

City University of New York

Belinda Crockett

School of health and Social Development, 

Deakin university, Burwood Victoria

Australia

AIDS and Stigma: Cultural Discontents and Social Manifestations

Ken Morrison

POLICY Project Mexico

“This sex is a complicated thing” – Cultural factors in the history of HIV/AIDS training content, methodology, and organisational issues, Western Cape, South Africa, 1989-2004

Stephen van Houten

Healthcare Corporation of St John's, Canada

Puberty rites revisted: Using the Window of Hope to Reduce HIV-Transmission

Prince Awudu Razak Sedzro

African Village Aid, Ghana