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Key Question: What is required in order to engage social capital effectively in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in diverse settings. Given that: Culture matters Context matters Social capital has both instrumental and value dimensions

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CONCEPTS.

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  1. Key Question: What is required in order to engage social capital effectively in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in diverse settings. • Given that: • Culture matters • Context matters • Social capital has both instrumental and value dimensions • HIV/AIDS has an inherently social basis and addressing prevention, treatment, and care requires social analysis and benefits from wide engagement of social capital Therefore:

  2. CONCEPTS. • We need to clarify our use of key terms – community, social capital, intervention, listening, etc. because words matter. Neither oversimplifying nor overcomplicating the terms. • We require an epistemological shift to be more attuned to various scales, levels, structures, etc • We need to reframe the problem. Are we really trying to mobilize social capital? Is AIDS exceptional?

  3. RESEARCH requires • Capacity to challenge the bio-medical paradigm • Capacity to demonstrate that culture and context matter • Demonstration of culture specific approaches that work • Analysis of the roles of donors/international context

  4. PROGRAMS/POLICIES must use knowledge of social relations/networks/social capital to • Create space and support for dialogue and action • Recognize that the process used to implement a structural approach or action may be as important as the content in bringing about change • Adapt to the fact that structural changes are context specific. They must be designed based on a social and epistemological analysis of the particular context they seek to address • Unequal access to social capital drives inequalities that fuel the epidemic

  5. Provide incentives that meet people’s needs or other issues that matter to them • Use combined strategies at multiple levels linking states, NGOs, CBOs, civil society • Find ways to provide voice to the marginalized and encourage listening by relevant social groups • Build AIDS response coalitions to move the agenda and address power structures • Understand the linkages between formal and informal institutions

  6. OTHER ISSUES • How does a social capital lens change the way we think about AIDS exceptionalism? Using HIV/AIDS as an entry point to broader public health, development and rights agenda • Is the current historical moment a particularly opportune time to re-think the response to AIDS? Can we seize the moment from neoliberalism\Washington consensus policies?

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