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California Reports and Data
Adapting a Family Counseling Intervention for HIV+ Men Leaving Jail/Prison
By Olga Grinstead, Ph.D., MPH, UCSF and Barry Zack, MPH
There are 2.1 million Americans are currently incarcerated in jails and prisons; 4.6 million more on probation/parole .US has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world --65% of prisoners are people of color; 90% are men; 1/3 of African-American men 20-29 are involved with the criminal justice system.
Adaptation of an HIV Prevention Curriculum for Use With Older African American Women
By Judith B. Cornelius, PhD, RN; Linda Moneyham, DNS, RN, FAAN; and Sara LeGrand, MS
Although African American women over 50 years of age represent the fastest growing group with HIV infection, little attention has been given to their HIV risk reduction needs. This study adapted an HIV risk reduction curriculum for use with older African American women based on input from a sample of women from the target population. Four focus group interviews were conducted with 30 African American women from three churches regarding adaptation of the Sisters Informing Sisters on Topics about AIDS (SISTA) curriculum for older women and the feasibility of implementing the curriculum in a church setting.
California HIV/AIDS Research Program
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program funds innovative basic, clinical, social, behavioral, and policy research, and provides scientific leadership by convening California stakeholders from diverse backgrounds with expertise in ending the human suffering caused by HIV disease.
California HIV Prevention indicators: Brief Report #5
This is the fifth of a continuing series of brief reports on California HIV Prevention Indicators, a collaborative effort of the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) and the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS (CDPH/OA). While the primary emphasis of this document is to report on indicator trends (see pages 7-8), information from a variety of sources is included to supplement the indicator data. For additional information, the reader should review the materials available at CHRP’s website http://chrp.ucop.edu/indicators.html.
Archive: Fourth Edition
State of California HIV/AIDS Monthly Statistics
The Office of AIDS, HIV/AIDS Case Registry Section, provides basic AIDS and HIV statistics. The monthly report is available after the beginning of the next month. For example, January HIV/AIDS statistics are available in early February. The HIV statistics became available starting in 2003.
What Are Black Men’s HIV Prevention Needs?
From Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California at San Francisco
Black and African American men cannot be lumped into a one-size-fits-all category. They are the fathers, brothers, uncles and sons in Black communities. They are doctors and lawyers, barbers and bus drivers; they are Christians and Muslims and speak many languages. However, not every person who looks Black or African American will identify with these labels. In the US, Black men represent a diverse group, including, but not limited to, Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Brazilian and African national men.
Reports/Articles/PowerPoint Presentations
Be Safe: A Cultural Competency Model for African-Americans with HIV/AIDS
From the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center
The NMAETC realizes that HIV/AIDS increasingly and disproportionately affects people of color, especially African Americans. This underscores the need for cultural competence among health care professionals who treat minority patients.
HIV/AIDS Surveillance by Race/Ethnicity (Updated through 2005)
Slide set from the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
CEOs: Training youth as community researchers to study social networks and HIV risk behaviors among YMSM of Color
By M Munoz-Laboy, M De la Cruz and A Holman, B Casenave Presented at the APHA 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition Nov. 4-8, 2006 in Boston, MA
Approximately 56% of AIDS cases among Bronx males 13–24 years of age are due to unprotected sex (53% MSM and 3% heterosexual). The exploding epidemic among YMSM of color and low level of access to MSM-friendly, culturally competent prevention services and primary care within Bronx communities, demands the development of new strategies to address HIV/AIDS in this population.
Women
Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents
These guidelines outline current understanding of how clinicians should use antiretroviral drugs to treat adults and adolescents with HIV infection. The primary areas covered are when to initiate therapy, which drug combinations are preferred and which drugs or combinations should be avoided, and means to continue clinical benefit in the face of antiretroviral drug resistance. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. January 29, 2008.
Love, Sex, and Masculinity in Sociocultural Context -- HIV Concerns and Condom Use among African American Men in Heterosexual Relationships
By Lisa Bowleg, University of Rhode Island
African American men in heterosexual relationships are virtually invisible in the theoretical and empirical psychological HIV/AIDS literature. This article posits that two theoretical frameworks—masculinity ideologies (MI) and sociocultural context—are important for comprehending Black men’s condom use.
The Influence of Dual-Identity Development on the Psychosocial Functioning of African-American Gay and Bisexual Men
By Isiaah Crawford, Loyola University of Chicago; Kevin W. Allison, Virginia Commonwealth University; Brian D. Zamboni, Loyola University of Chicago; and Tomas Soto, the CORE Center, Chicago, Ill.
To examine the influence of racial-ethnic and sexual identity development on the psychosocial functioning of African-American gay and bisexual men (AAGBM). Men and Masculinities. October 2004 pages 166-186
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care
2001 final report from the Office of Minority Health
The CLAS standards are primarily directed at health care organizations; however, individual providers are also encouraged to use the standards to make their practices more culturally and linguistically accessible. The principles and activities of culturally and linguistically appropriate services should be integrated throughout an organization and undertaken in partnership with the communities being served.
The Mpowerment Project: Young Black Men who have Sex with Men Creating New “Chosen” Families
(PowerPoint for the University of California San Francisco.)
By Susan M. Kegeles, PhD, Emily A. Arnold, PhD, Michael L. Foster, Ed.D. M.P.H, Jonathan Davis
Systemic Review of HIV Behavioral Prevention Research in African Americans
This systematic review was commissioned by the Surgeon General's Leadership Campaign on AIDS and was completed in collaboration by the University of California, San Francisco AIDS Research Institute and the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV/AIDS. Supported by a grant from the Leadership Conference on AIDS and the Office of Minority Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Roundtable: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Is There Really Enough of the Right Kind of Evidence?
By Gary W Dowsett and Murray Couch
The discourse on HIV prevention at the XVI International Conference on AIDS in Toronto in August 2006 focused on the recently coined notion of “prevention technologies” which, while not including behaviour change, does include cervical barriers, pre-exposure prophylaxis with antiretroviral drugs, herpes suppression, microbicides, HIV vaccines, and as a newcomer to the list and, lauded as having most immediate promise, male circumcision. Deploying a very masculinist metaphor, male circumcision was often hailed at the Toronto conference as the newest “weapon in the arsenal.” Such a narrowly conceived range of biomedical prevention strategies, and their rendition as “technologies,” resonates with discourses now dominating the international HIV/AIDS field that favour medical intervention and morally sanctioned control over community mobilisation and activism for establishing and sustaining changes in behaviour. Reproductive Health Matters May 2007 (Vol. 15, Issue 29, Pages 33-44)
Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative “Unmet Needs in HIV Care” (Presented to the Pfizer Foundation 2006 Conference PowerPoint.)
By M. Keith Rawlings, MD. Medical Director, Peabody Health Center. AIDS Arms, Inc.
The Use of Epidemiologic and Other Data in Selecting Behavioral HIV Prevention Interventions for African-American Women
By Tanya Telfair Sharpe, PhD, Marlene Glassman, PhD, Charles Collins, PhD
We describe a “research to practice” method by which public health policymakers and HIV prevention service providers can integrate the findings of national surveillance with other sources of public health data. We suggest developing a comprehensive risk profile, based on multiple sources of data, to inform the selection and implementation of evidence-based behavioral interventions (EBIs) for African-American women.
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