Structural actions toward HIV/AIDS prevention in Cartagena, Colombia: a qualitative study Medidas estructurales para la prevención de la infección por el VIH/sida en Cartagena, Colombia: estudio cualitativo

• Main Authors: María Cristina Quevedo-Gómez, Anja Krumeich, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, Eduardo Manuel Pastrana-Salcedo, Hubertus van den Borne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2011
• Subjects: VIH; SIDA; etnografía; medio social; investigación cualitativa; Colombia; HIV infections; AIDS; ethnography; social environment; qualitative research; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/edfbf06c867e4fae9974c8fade4cef40

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a thorough understanding of the complexity and dynamics of the social determination of HIV infection among inhabitants of Cartagena, Colombia, as well as their views on necessary actions and priorities. METHODS: In a five-year ethnography of HIV/AIDS in collaboration with 96 cit...