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Full-Text Articles in Community-Based Research
Why We Must Oppose The Full Decriminalization Of Prostitution, Taina Bien-Aime
Why We Must Oppose The Full Decriminalization Of Prostitution, Taina Bien-Aime
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
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The Hiv/Aids Pandemic In African American Msm: Targets For Intervention, Kelly Neff
The Hiv/Aids Pandemic In African American Msm: Targets For Intervention, Kelly Neff
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in 2005 that 46% of African American men who have sex with men (MSM) are HIV positive. This review explores the unique factors that contribute to risky sexual behavior and the spread of HIV within this population, suggesting that the disparate prevalence of HIV among African American MSM is rooted in experiences of stigmatization from multiple sources and lack of social support from society at large as well as from within the African American community. Beliefs in HIV conspiracy myths are also thought to hinder HIV education, awareness and prevention for African …
Conocimientos Y Conductas Sexuales En Trabajadores Migrantes (Arica, Chile), Anna Conley
Conocimientos Y Conductas Sexuales En Trabajadores Migrantes (Arica, Chile), Anna Conley
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Background: The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be prevalent and to expand in Chile, as in many other regions of Latin America and around the world. Furthermore, it continues to concentrate in distinct, vulnerable populations. Migrant workers represent one such vulnerable population. The HIV/AIDS epidemic disproportionately impacts migrant workers because of the social, economic, and psychological factors that are involved in both migratory behaviors and disease construction.
Aim: This study identified sexual health knowledge and sexual health behavior in the migrant laborer population of Arica, Chile. More specifically, it identified risk factors for HIV/AIDS and explored possible strategies for a preventative …
Attribution Of Stigma As A Function Of Disease And Mode Of Transmission, Alfred Maxdee Decker
Attribution Of Stigma As A Function Of Disease And Mode Of Transmission, Alfred Maxdee Decker
Graduate Theses
The knowledge and attitudes of Odessa College health care students (N=114) towards hypothetical patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) were measured via questionnaires. Transmission variables for infection were: anal sex with another man, injecting drug use, or blood transfusion. An Attribution Theory model was used to explain differences in knowledge and attitudes. Results suggest that students tend correctly to identify HBV as being more infectious than HIV and also to recognize that as future health care workers they are much more likely to die from HBV than HIV infection. In spite of this knowledge, …