By Donna Hubbard McCree PhD MPH RPh, Kenneth Terrill Jones MSW, Ann O'Leary PhD
African american citizens and HIV/AIDS realizing and Addressing the Epidemic Donna Hubbard McCree, Kenneth T. Jones, and Ann O’Leary, editors in accordance with the facilities for affliction regulate and Prevention, approximately 1/2 the a couple of million american citizens residing with HIV/AIDS are African americans, even though they contain simply 13 percentage of the U.S. inhabitants. prevalence between African american citizens is expected to be nearly eight instances that of ecu american citizens. HIV/AIDS disparities have existed throughout this diversified crew, and proceed to take a devastating toll. To interfere successfully, public health and wellbeing pros needs to comprehend the context during which high-risk habit happens, and feature entry to correct and present prevention thoughts. African americans and HIV/AIDS succeeds on either counts by way of supplying an research of the historic, psychosocial, fiscal, and political matters relating to HIV transmission within the black group, and supplying a wealth of evidence-based and rising interventions (including behavioral interventions, and counseling and trying out ideas) adapted to express subpopulations. This twin standpoint provides readers the widest figuring out of those and different key components together with: • the connection among poverty, discrimination, and different social disparities to HIV. • The evolving reaction of the black church to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. • HIV/AIDS within the context of alternative sexually transmitted infections. • HIV/AIDS prevention suggestions particularly focusing on heterosexually lively males, and girls, males who've intercourse with males, injection drug clients, and kids. • Prison-based intervention courses. • Structural interventions emphasizing social stipulations. Practitioners, researchers, and graduate scholars in public health and wellbeing, affliction prevention, future health disparities, and minority healthiness will locate African american citizens and HIV/AIDS a prepared resource of worthy heritage and useful knowledge.
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Among men who have sex with men (MSM)). Injection-drug use (IDU). Both MSM and IDU (MSM/IDU). , MSM or injection-drug user)). , hemophilia, blood transfusion, unidentified risk factors). In addition, estimated numbers of HIV/AIDS and AIDS diagnoses were calculated for each racial and ethnic population by transmission category and other selected characteristics for the years 2002–2006. , persons living with HIV/AIDS) rates per 100,000 population for persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and for persons diagnosed with AIDS also were calculated for each racial and ethnic population.
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H. McCree and M. Hogben men, Henny, and women, Wingood; MSM, Jones, Wilton, Johnson and Millett; and intravenous drugs users, Purcell, Mizuno, and Lyles. This section concludes with a chapter authored by Arrington Sanders and Ellen on structural interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention with an emphasis on poverty and racism. Finally, the volume concludes with a discussion of future directions for HIV/AIDS prevention authored by the co-editors, O’Leary, Jones and McCree. References Adimora, A. , Schoenbach, V.