African Americans and HIV/AIDS Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McCree, Donna Hubbard. (Editor), Jones, Kenneth. (Editor), O'Leary, Ann. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78321-5

African Americans and HIV/AIDS Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic Donna Hubbard McCree, Kenneth T. Jones, and Ann OLeary, editors According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half of the more than one million Americans living with HIV/AIDS are African Americans, despit...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• About the Editors
• Part 1: Context
• History & statistics
• Context: Poverty and racism
• Context: Organized religion, i.e., the role of the Black church (positive and negative effects)
• Context: Racial disparities in incarceration
• Context: Mass media (e.g., hip-hop culture) effects on youth
• Context: Other STD epidemics
• Context: Trauma, substance use and mental health. Context: Interactions among violence, substance use and HIV
• Context: Childhood sexual abuse and HIV
• Context: Bisexually active men
• Part II: Interventions
• Interventions: Adolescents
• Interventions: Heterosexual men
• Interventions: Heterosexual women
• Interventions: MSM
• Interventions: Structural interventions with an emphasis on poverty and racism
• Interventions in prisons
• Needed future directions.