Cultural and societal obstacles in responding to Swaziland's HIV epidemic.

Drug use, HIV, HCV and TB: major interlinked challenges in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Eastern Europe and Central Asia have the largest drug epidemic globally and the fastest and still expanding HIV epidemic. The Russian Federation and Ukraine together account for over 90% of the reported AIDS cases in the region. If small in absolute numbers, the epidemics are however significant in prevalence rate in most countries of Central Asia. Most heroin and many of the new synthetic or h...

Responding to Swaziland's dual epidemic.

Understanding culture and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

Early in the study of HIV/AIDS, culture was invoked to explain differences in the disease patterns between sub-Saharan Africa and Western countries. Unfortunately, in an attempt to explain the statistics, many of the presumed risk factors were impugned in the absence of evidence. Many cultural practices were stripped of their meanings, societal context and historical positioning and transformed...

Analysis of the Position of Women's Education in Iran during the Past One Hundred Years; An Interdisciplinary Approach

Iran is a developing country in which the women despite the growth of rate of education in two recent decades have suffered a vast gender gap in education, during the past one hundred years. The aim of this paper was to present a portrait of educational position of women in Iran, during the past one hundred years and to analyze the obstacles of females in to achieve to equal educational opportu...

Bidirectional Interactions between Hiv/aids and Indian Culture

Health interventions and research initiatives focused on the Indian HIV/AIDS epidemic have often neglected the critical relationship between disease and its cultural contexts. This study synthesises and builds upon current understandings of how cultures and HIV/AIDS interact in India, whilst highlighting significant gaps in knowledge. Cultural dynamics shape the trajectory of the epidemic, comm...