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	Culture and the Development of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Services by Rebecca Dirks Article Abstract For reprints, please e-mail imqeditor@american.edu
Culture influences nearly every aspect of health care and education, from the architectural style of a hospital or clinic to the communication patterns used between a patient and a health care provider. There has been a growing acknowledgement in development that cultural pressures in health care systems must be taken into account, as they vary from community to community. This article examines a HIV/AIDS project that used an understanding of cultural context to design and implement successful HIV/AIDS prevention and education services throughout communities in Uganda. According to the author, this project illustrates how heath campaigns can take advantage of social networks that are already in place in a society, and how the cultural norms of the community were applied as frameworks for education and prevention.