title: Resisting global AIDS knowledges: born-again Christian narratives of the epidemic from Papua New Guinea.
abstract: The recognition that HIV prevention materials need to be adapted to local cultures is not often sufficiently understood and applied. Counter discourses and determined disputation about the best means of HIV prevention show that success is not simply a matter of mindfully translating globally sanctioned knowledge and presenting it to receptive audiences. Beliefs contrary to global AIDS knowledges will not be displaced inevitably by scientific facts. As this study of born-again Christians in Papua New Guinea shows, there is incommensurability between the globalized approach preferred by the government and the approach of these Christians. The answer may lie in two words: respect and dialogue.
authors.affiliation: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Richard.Eves@anu.edu.au
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eves
mesh_terms: D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D002835:Christianity / Q000523:psychology*; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D014943:Global Health; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000208:ethnology; D011634:Public Health; D012068:Religion and Medicine