Fafo's research on HIV and AIDS

In focus

Grønningsæter, Arne Backer and Bjørn R. Lescher-Nuland (2010), Lesbiske, homofile og bifile arbeidstakere i storbyen. Undersøkelse blant ansatte i Bergen kommune. Fafo-report 2010:33

The summary report: HIV/AIDS, the disability grant and ARV adherence (2010)

Our research

Our research on the social aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic forms an integral part of our research on people’s vulnerability and living conditions be it poverty, health, welfare or labour market issues. We aim to develop applied knowledge which is highly policy relevant. Several of the HIV/AIDS research projects have been carried out in cooperation between researchers from Fafo’s two institutes: the Institute for Labour and Social Research and the Institute for Applied International Studies. Fafo’s aim is to work closely with local stakeholders and/or academic institutions, and to conduct research of high ethical and methodological standards.
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Key questions

How do people living with HIV/AIDS experience the societal response to the epidemic? What are their views of policies and services?

How are society and the welfare apparatus challenged by the epidemic and the needs of the HIV-infected people?

Important research topics

• Living conditions – Quality of life – Life strategies
• The need for welfare services among people living with HIV – The response of health and social services towards people living with HIV
• Stigma and discrimination – Poverty
• Infant feeding and prevention of mother-to-child transmission
• Corporate social responsibility – Human rights and workers’ rights

Projects

Norway

• Living conditions among people living with HIV (2008)
• Attitudes towards HIV in the Norwegian population (2008)
• Arenas for discrimination and stigma against people living with HIV in Norway (2008)
• Living conditions and quality of life among people living with HIV (2002)

Russia

• Public health without public trust? Governance of HIV/AIDS prevention in North-West Russia (Together with NIBR, Institute for Public Health and Russian Institutions – 2008-2010)
  

South Africa

• Love in the Time of AIDS: The Relational Gender Dynamics of Prevention, Testing and Treatment. CSSR Working Paper No. 252 / Fafo-paper 2009:15
• Social grants, HIV/AIDS and the role out of HAART (Together with Aids and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town - 2007-2009)
• The experiences of HIV-infected women: cessation of breastfeeding as a strategy to reduce transmission of HIV (2005-2008)
• HIV/AIDS and workers’ right (2003)
  

Tanzania

• Infant feeding dilemmas facing women with HIV (2000-2004)
  

Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

• Child labour, tobacco and AIDS (2004)
  

Botswana

• The role of South African multinationals in the private sector response. (Together with Botswana National Productivity Centre - 2003)

Contacts

Arne Backer Grønningsæter
E-mail address
+47 22088715

Marina de Paoli
E-mail address
+47 22088652

Publications

For other publications than Fafo's, see the researchers’ own pages linked under Contacts (above).

Fra holdninger til levekår.
Liv med hiv i Norge i 2009 (2009)

HIV in Norway: Knowledge and Attitudes (2008)

Diskriminering av lesbiske, homofile og bifile og av hivpositive. En litteratur-gjennomgang (2008)

Fortsatt farlig å kysse? Kunnskap om og holdninger til hiv (2008)

Living conditions and quality of life among people living with HIV in Norway. English summary (2004)

Levekår og livskvalitet blant hivpositive (2002)