347 - Thematic Session. Collective Action to Address Health: The Case of HIV/AIDS

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

What are the conditions under which collective action can successfully improve health? What are the challenges of collective mobilization as a health intervention strategy? Papers on the panel will apply some of the most important areas of sociological theory and research on social movements and collective mobilization to the study of HIV, thus explicitly engaging the conference theme of Rethinking Social Movements. In particular, papers will assess the challenges and possibilities of purposive efforts to foster collective action to address HIV among vulnerable populations around the globe. The research presented in this session will thus help move the discussion of social mobilization and HIV/AIDS beyond antiretroviral therapy provision to consider broader questions of collective action among marginalized populations as a prevention strategy in and of itself, with conclusions that apply to health outcomes more broadly than HIV.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University

Presider

• Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University

Panelists

• Kim M. Blankenship, American University

• Gay Young, American University

• Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University