COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled,
processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in …

Anthropologists working on HIV are increasingly reframing their research as taking place in
“the age of treatment,” marking a shift from “the age of AIDS.” The age of treatment is …

Community engagement is an increasingly common component of scientific research, policy-
making, ethical review, and technology design. Drawing on a growing consensus about the …

Background: Based on ethnographic investigations and mathematical models, older sexual
partners are often considered a major risk factor for HIV for young women in sub-Saharan …

A syndemic has been theorized as a cluster of epidemics driven by harmful social and
structural conditions wherein the interactions between the constitutive epidemics drive …

Background Literature on issues relating to comprehension during the process of obtaining
informed consent (IC) has largely focused on the challenges potential participants can face …

Background Community engagement (CE) is increasingly promoted for biomedical research
conducted in resource poor settings for both intrinsic and instrumental purposes. Given the …

Consent and community engagement (CE) in health research are two aspects of a single
concern—that research is carried out in a respectful manner where social value is …

The Korean government collects and releases sociodemographic information about people
infected with COVID-19, their travel histories, and whether or not the patients wore masks …

Consent processes have attracted significant research attention over the last decade,
including in the global south. Although relevant studies suggest consent is a complex …