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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND HIV/AIDS
UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE EPIDEMIC |
| By: |
Donna Hubbard McCree (Editor), Kenneth Terrill Jones (Editor), Ann O'Leary (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£99.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1489996729 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781489996725 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2014 |
| Pages: |
324 |
| Description: |
This volume focuses on the history and context of HIV/AIDS in African Americans and interventions targeting specific subpopulations: adolescents, heterosexual men and women, men who have sex with men, incarcerated populations, and injection drug users. |
| Synopsis: |
Among U. S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this disparity as well as methods for intervening and positively impacting the e- demic in the U. S. The book is divided into two sections. The first section includes chapters that explore specific contextual and structural factors related to HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention in African Americans. The second section is composed of chapters that address the latest in intervention strategies, including best-evidence and promising-evidence based behavioral interventions, program evaluation, cost effectiveness analyses and HIV testing and counseling. As background for the book, the Introduction provides a summary of the context and importance of other infectious disease rates, (i. e. , sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] and tubercu- sis), to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in African Americans and a brief introductory discussion on the major contextual factors related to the acquisition and transmission of STDs/HIV.Contextual Chapters Johnson & Dean author the first chapter in this section, which discusses the history and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Specifically, this ch- ter provides a definition for and description of the US surveillance systems used to track HIV/AIDS and presents data on HIV or AIDS cases diagnosed between 2002 and 2006 and reported to CDC as of June 30, 2007. |
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biography |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
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