The 48th Annual Sorokin Lecture

It Takes a Community to Quell an Epidemic: A Sociological Approach to AIDS
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, University of Windsor

March 2, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
Room 241 Arts Building
University of Saskatchewan
Free Lecture

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been with us for over 35 years. Although it no longer holds a prominent place in the consciousness of Canadians, it continues to be on the agenda internationally with many billions of US dollars spent on programming to combat the pandemic. The dominant interventions promoted to curb the spread of HIV have been medical and psychological, focused at the level of individuals and combatting the pandemic one person at a time. Sociologists and other social scientists working in the AIDS arena have, instead, turned attention to networks, groups, communities, and social environments as sites of research and intervention. This presentation takes a sociological, community-oriented approach to curbing the spread of HIV using examples from my own research and that of colleagues working in diverse world locations.

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