Religious Responses to HIV and AIDS: Understanding the Role of Religious Cultures

描述(由申请者提供)：宗教组织在全球范围内发挥关键作用，提供初级和临终关怀的第一线机会，倡导卫生和社会福利资源，并影响国家公共卫生和社会政策，以应对一系列关键的公共卫生挑战。然而，到目前为止，考察宗教对人口健康需求的反应的研究主要集中在确定宗教信仰对个人健康行为和结果的影响，而没有批判性地关注宗教在塑造社会、文化和机构对疾病反应方面的作用。宗教对艾滋病毒和艾滋病的反应提供了一个审查机构宗教参与保健的理想情景，正是因为艾滋病流行病引起了社会、科学和政策辩论的争议。本次会议题为“宗教应对艾滋病毒和艾滋病：了解宗教文化和机构在应对这一流行病中的作用”，旨在通过小型会议形式将社会科学和公共卫生领域的主要学者聚集在一起，探讨宗教文化和机构如何在各种全球背景下应对艾滋病毒和艾滋病疫情。为期两天的会议将暂定于2010年7月8日至9日在纽约市哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院举行(日期可能会根据项目最终批准的开始日期而改变)。会议形式将围绕一系列六个小组讨论和论文演示来组织。具体而言，与会者将审查宗教文化和机构之间的交集，以及艾滋病毒、艾滋病和生殖健康方面的下列当代专题：移徙；国际援助和发展的政治；全球化；卫生系统；生殖健康和预防技术；“传统”治疗做法；社会不平等；以及人权。 公共卫生相关性：了解宗教文化和机构如何影响艾滋病毒治疗、护理、预防和生殖健康政策的设计和执行，对于为未来的公共卫生战略和研究提供信息至关重要。这次会议将是首批跨区域、跨学科的会议之一，以审查在社会不平等和健康差距日益扩大的全球背景下，如何在地方一级解释和颁布这些政策。在这方面，跨学科的观点至关重要，因为宗教在支持、有时甚至阻碍实施有效的预防艾滋病毒和艾滋病治疗和护理公共卫生战略方面发挥着持续的作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Religious organizations play a key role globally in providing front-line access to primary and terminal care, advocating for health and social welfare resources and influencing national public health and social policies in response to a range of key public health challenges. Yet research examining religious responses to population health needs has thus far largely focused on identifying the effects of religious beliefs on individual health behavior and outcomes, without looking critically at the role of religion in shaping social, cultural, and institutional responses to illness. Religious responses to HIV and AIDS provide an ideal scenario from which to examine institutional religious involvement in health precisely because of the controversies that the AIDS epidemic has brought to the forefront of social, scientific and policy debates. This conference, "Religious Responses to HIV and AIDS: Understanding the Role of Religious Cultures and Institutions in Confronting the Epidemic," seeks to bring together leading scholars in the social sciences and public health in a small conference format to explore how religious cultures and institutions have responded to the HIV and AIDS epidemic and in a variety of global contexts. The two-day conference will tentatively be held on July 8th - 9th, 2010, at The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City (dates are subject to change depending on final approved start date for the project). The conference format will be organized around a series of six panel discussions and paper presentations. Specifically, conference participants will examine intersections between religious cultures and institutions and the following contemporary topics in HIV, AIDS and reproductive health: migration; politics of international aid and development; globalization; health systems; reproductive health and prevention technologies; "traditional" healing practices; social inequality; and human rights. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Understanding how religious cultures and institutions have affected the design and implementation of HIV treatment, care, prevention and reproductive health policies is critical for informing future public health strategies and research. This conference will be one of the first cross-regional, cross-disciplinary conferences to examine how such policies are interpreted and enacted on a local level in a global context of increasing social inequality and health disparities. An interdisciplinary perspective in this context is critical due to the ongoing role that religion plays in supporting, and at times inhibiting, the implementation of effective public health strategies for HIV prevention and AIDS treatment and care.