HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color
More people in communities of color are contracting, living with, and being treated for HIV/AIDS than ever before. In 2005, 71% of new AIDS cases were diagnosed in people of color. Though the number of racial and ethnic minority HIV/AIDS cases continues to grow, the health care community has been un...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2009.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98152-9 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and preface
- The epidemiology, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among African America
- HIV/AIDS and Latino populations in the US: epidemiology, prevention, and barriers to care and treatment
- Antiretroviral therapy and communities of color
- Overcoming challenges to successful treatment outcomes in minority patients with HIV/AIDS
- Access to culturally competent care for patients living with HIV/AIDS
- Women of color and HIV/AIDS: epidemiology, clinical aspects, and management
- Management of pregnancy in HIV-infected women and prevention of mother to child transmission
- Dermatologic manifestations of HIV in communities of color
- Co-morbidities in black patients with HIV/AIDS
- Men who have sex with men of color in the age of AIDS: the sociocultural contexts of stigma, marginalization, and structural inequalities
- HIV prevention and heterosexual African-American women
- Substance abuse and mental health issues: coping with dual and triple diagnoses
- African-Americans and HIV research
- HIV politics and policy: impact on care and treatment in communities of color
- Moving toward a unified global HIV/AIDS agenda: communities of color in crisis.-.