HIV and AIDS: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
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- HIV in adolescent girls: An invisible epidemic. // Patient Care;9/15/1993, Vol. 27 Issue 14, p124
Presents an interview with Karen Hein, director of the Adolescent AIDS Program at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, on HIV infections among adolescent girls. Infection rate; Physiologic vulnerability of teenage girls in transformation zones; Testing in adolescents; Antiretroviral...
- Adolescent Inpatient Behavioral Health Clients: Risk Factors and Methods of Preventing an Increase in HIV Infection Among Youth. Hackerman, Ann E. // Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education & Development;Spring2002, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p28
There has been a surge in the rates of adolescents who are becoming infected with HIV. This study of 214 "at risk" clients being treated on an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization basis examines why such clients continue to engage in high-risk behaviors. Results and suggestions for a...
- Increasing Access to Preventive Health Care Through Cultural Adaptation of Effective HIV Prevention Interventions: A Brief Report from the HIV Prevention in Haitian Youths Study. Malow, Robert M.; Jean-Gilles, Michele M.; Devieux, Jessy G.; Rosenberg, Rhonda; Russell, Angela // ABNF Journal;Nov/Dec2004, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p127
This article describes an HIV prevention study among Haitian youths, based on the cultural adaptation of a cognitive behavioral HIV risk reduction intervention entitled "Becoming a Responsible Teen." The aim of the parent study is to evaluate whether the BART intervention is more effective than...
- Knowledge, Perception and Behaviour of Nigerian Youths on HIV/AIDS. Durojaiye, Christopher O. // Internet Journal of Health;2009, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p12
Background: The pandemic of HIV remains on the increase with young people at increased risk of infection. This study assesses the knowledge of HIV/AIDS, perception and practices of youths in Lagos, Nigeria. Method: Descriptive cross-sectional survey conducted between May and June 2008 using...
- Disparities in Diagnoses of HIV Infection Between Blacks/African Americans and Other Racial/Ethnic Populations -- 37 States, 2005-2008. Laffoon, B.; Johnson, A. Satcher; Cohen, S.; Shouse, R. L. // MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report;2/4/2011, Vol. 60 Issue 4, p93
The article discusses the results of the analyses of data from the National HIV Surveillance System on the numbers, percentages, and rates of HIV diagnoses in African Americans during 2005-2008. It describes how the annual rates of HIV diagnoses per 100,000 adults and adolescents in each...
- "Getting Real" About HIV in Adolescents. Hein, Karen // American Journal of Public Health;Apr93, Vol. 83 Issue 4, p492
In this article the author reflects on acting upon the control of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in adolescents. He explains that among sexually experienced people, adolescents have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases. He asserts that sex education leads not to more sex...
- Survival, plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations and drug resistance in HIV-1-infected Haitian adolescents and young adults on antiretrovirals. // Bulletin of the World Health Organization;Dec2008, Vol. 86 Issue 12, p970
The article discusses research regarding HIV-1-infected Haitian adolescents. The objective of the study is to assess the outcome of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Haitian youths where HIV-1 is a generalized epidemic. Survival, plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations, and HIV-1 drug resistance patterns...
- Minorities and AIDS: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Misconceptions among Black and Latino Adolescents. DiClemente, Ralph J.; Boyer, Cherrie B.; Morales, Edward S. // American Journal of Public Health;Jan1988, Vol. 78 Issue 1, p55
Abstract: White adolescents in San Francisco high schools were more knowledgeable than Black adolescents about the cause, transmission, and prevention of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), and Black adolescents were more knowledgeable than their Latino peers. Black and Latino adolescents...
- Executive Summary. // American Journal of Public Health;May91, Vol. 81 Issue 5, special section p9
The article focuses on the prevalence, distribution and trends of HIV infection in the state of New York from 1987 to 1990. Study of newborns from November 30, 1987 to March 31, 1990 revealed an HIV seroprevalence rate of 0.66 percent statewide. On the other hand, surveillance of female prison...
