Acknowledgements
The articles that have been included in this Special Supplement were all originally prepared for the conference ‘Religious Responses to HIV and AIDS’ that was organised with support from a grant (#1 R13 HD066966-01) from the US Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Additional support for the conference, and for the publication of this Special Supplement, has been provided by the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not reflect the opinions of any of the institutions that have provided support for this publication.