African Americans and HIV/AIDS : Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic Paperback / softback
Edited by PhD, MPH, RPh, Donna Hubbard McCree, MSW, Kenneth Terrill Jones, PhD, Ann O'Leary
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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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- Pages:324 pages, XX, 324 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:03/09/2014
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- ISBN:9781489996725
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, XX, 324 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:03/09/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781489996725