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...

Cultural psychologists have often sought to explaincross-culturaldifferences in social cognition as differences rooted in the cultures’ positions on a small collection of pan-cultural dimensions (e.g., individualism-collectivism). In this paper, we argue for a paradigm shift in cultural psychology.Drawing on the arguments and data presented in the papers of this special issue, we propose to vie...

BACKGROUND The terms 'cultural safety' and 'cultural competence' are used widely in indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse health contexts. They form the basis for effective patient centred care and the professional advocacy role of the general practitioner. OBJECTIVE This article discusses the concepts of cultural safety and cultural competence. A checklist of cultural competen...

Abstract In the past decade, refugee entrepreneurship has received unprecedented political and public attention worldwide especially in Germany. Due to circumstances of forced migration asylum procedure, entrepreneurs are socially disembedded both: co-ethnic community local community, comparison other immigrant or native entrepreneurs. Since seekers allocated their residence independent will, i...