| Strange bedfellows: the Catholic Church and Brazilian National AIDS Program in the response to HIV/AIDS in Brazil. | |
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PMID: 21324573 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The HIV epidemic has raised important tensions in the relationship between Church and State in many parts of Latin America where government policies frequently negotiate secularity with religious belief and doctrine. Brazil represents a unique country in the region due to the presence of a national religious response to HIV/AIDS articulated through the formal structures of the Catholic Church. As part of an institutional ethnography on religion and HIV/AIDS in Brazil, we conducted an extended, multi-site ethnography from October 2005 through March of 2009 to explore the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Brazilian National AIDS Program. This case study links a national, macro-level response of governmental and religious institutions with the enactment of these politics and dogmas on a local level. Shared values in solidarity and citizenship, similar organizational structures, and complex interests in forming mutually beneficial alliances were the factors that emerged as the bases for the strong partnership between the two institutions. Dichotomies of Church and State and micro and macro forces were often blurred as social actors responded to the epidemic while also upholding the ideologies of the institutions they represented. We argue that the relationship between the Catholic Church and the National AIDS Program was formalized in networks mediated through personal relationships and political opportunity structures that provided incentives for both institutions to collaborate. |
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Authors:
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Laura R Murray; Jonathan Garcia; Miguel Muñoz-Laboy; Richard G Parker |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Multicenter Study; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Date: 2011-01-27 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Social science & medicine (1982) Volume: 72 ISSN: 1873-5347 ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Publication Date: 2011 Mar |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2011-04-04 Completed Date: 2011-08-24 Revised Date: 2012-03-07 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8303205 Medline TA: Soc Sci Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 945-52 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. lrm2137@columbia.edu |
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Anthropology, Cultural Brazil Catholicism* Cooperative Behavior* Female HIV Infections / prevention & control* Humans Interviews as Topic Male National Health Programs Policy Making Religion and Medicine* |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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F31 HD055153-02/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD050118-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD050118-02/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD050118-03/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD050118-04/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD050118-05/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R01 HD050118-05/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; T32MH020031/MH/NIMH NIH HHS |
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