Critical Consciousness, Racial and Gender Discrimination, and HIV Disease Markers in African American Women with HIV

is knowledge enough? considering hiv/aids risk behaviors and hiv/aids knowledge with african american women

background this quantitative explanatory study was designed to explain the relationship between hiv/aids risk-taking behaviors among african american women and their knowledge surrounding hiv/aids. more specifically, the research considers whether knowledge alone was sufficient to alter african-american women’s risk-taking behaviors regarding hiv/aids. objectives this study was designed to inve...

HIV Prevention and Heterosexual African American Women

Early in the epidemic, HIV infection and AIDS were diagnosed among relatively few women and female adolescents. Currently, women account for more than 25% of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the U.S. Heterosexually acquired HIV/AIDS is the predominant route of transmission for African American women. Among African American women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS during 2001–2004, 78% contracted the infectio...

Racial discrimination and disease damage among African American women with systemic lupus erythematosus

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Peer education, gender and the development of critical consciousness: participatory HIV prevention by South African youth.

Despite the growing popularity of participatory peer education as an HIV-prevention strategy worldwide, our understandings of the processes underlying its impact on sexual norms are still in their infancy. Starting from the assumption that gender inequalities play a key role in driving the epidemic amongst young people, we outline a framework for conceptualizing the processes underlying success...

human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome risk (hiv/aids)-taking behavior and hiv/aids knowledge with african-american women