Visual Participatory Approaches to HIV and AIDS Research as Intervention in a Rural Community Setting

Abstract

This article presents visual participatory approaches as a way to address HIV and AIDS in a rural South African setting. The article suggests that visual imaging has merit for supporting HIV and AIDS intervention with learners, teachers, community health care workers and parents in a community ravaged by the pandemic. It also presents a summary of findings from a three year project in which visual imaging was applied as research as intervention, to address issues around HIV & AIDS. In this article an asset-based framework for understanding the use of visual participatory methodologies as an approach to intervention is used, creating contexts for change where researchers and participants learn and intervene together.