Author: Lessie Myles Publisher: ISBN: 9781449033132 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
This book is a work of non-fiction. It is written in simple, easy to understand terminology (avoiding hard-to-understand medical jargon). Its message derives from a spirit of "Love" for the African-American race. It is expressed in the form of a story. The time-line of the story begins in the turbulent decade of the 1960's. In retrospect, this era marks the precursor for HIV/AIDS. There were two notable changes that occurred in the mid 1960's, providing the gateway for the HIV virus to ignite and quickly spread; especially among the younger generation: sexual freedom and illegal drug usage. Not long afterwards, both became epidemics. These two catastrophic epidemics caused a moral decline in American culture. However, African-Americans were disproportionately affected and suffered the most. By the time the mid 1970's rolled around, the transition from a conservative, family-oriented, religious nation soon became a nation of radical, rebellious young citizens that fought against a system that governed its people. This downward spiral began to manifest itself in the form of babies being born out-of-wedlock; a surge in violent crimes, and a substantial increase of young Black men becoming incarcerated. Because drugs began to flood Black communities in an unimaginable way during this decade, many young Black adults became highly addicted to heroin and cocaine. Sexual freedom became intertwined with other liberties the Black race began to enjoy as the result of Anti-Segregation laws being enforced. This back-drop of circumstances set the stage to ignite the spread of the HIV virus in Black communities.
Author: Jacob Levenson Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385722346 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 322
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Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers of young black men and women. Medical researcher Mindy Fullilove investigates the epidemic’s links to crack cocaine, the Bronx fires, and national health policy. Desiree Rushing must reconcile her crack addiction and HIV infection with the fate of her city, family, and the black church. David deShazo, a white AIDS worker in Alabama, fights to prevent the American South from becoming the epidemic’s new epicenter. And Mario Cooper, a gay, infected son of the black elite confronts the boundaries of American race politics in Washington, D.C. Seamlessly interweaving personal stories with national policy, Levenson indelibly captures this devastating epidemic and illuminates its potential to expand our understanding of race in America.
Author: Dan Royles Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
This project reveals the untold story of African Americans AIDS activists' fight against HIV and AIDS in black communities. I describe the ways that, from 1985 to 2003, the both challenged public and private granting agencies to provide funds for HIV prevention efforts aimed specifically at black communities, and challenged homophobic attitudes among African Americans that, they believed, perpetuated the spread of the disease through stigma and silence. At the same time, they connected the epidemic among African Americans to racism and inequality within the United States, as well as to the pandemic raging throughout the African Diaspora and in the developing world. In this way, I argue, they contested and renegotiated the social and spatial boundaries of black community in the context of a devastating epidemic. At the same time, I also argue, they borrowed political strategies from earlier moments of black political organizing, as they brought key questions of diversity, equality, and public welfare to bear on HIV and AIDS. As they fought for resources with which to stop HIV and AIDS from spreading within their communities, they struggled over the place of blackness amid the shifting politics of race, class, and health in post-Civil Rights America. Adding their story to the emerging narrative of the history of the epidemic thus yields a more expansive and radical picture of AIDS activism in the United States.
Author: Donna Hubbard McCree, PhD, MPH, RPh Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387783210 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 336
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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.
Author: Geneva E. Bell Publisher: Pilgrim Press ISBN: Category : AIDS (Disease) Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
A deeply moving narrative and a wrenching story of a mother and her gay son's struggle with AIDS. Honestly confronting the pain of a family, this text ultimately shows a faith community transformed by God's love. Foreword by Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
Author: Dan Royles Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469659514 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 332
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In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a "white gay disease" in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too "hard to reach." To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of African American activists in the decades-long battle against HIV/AIDS.
Author: Dale Napolin Bratter Publisher: Mianus River Press ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Their Presence is Dale Napolin Bratter's remarkable memoir in which she sensitively and skillfully reveals in-depth stories of the lives of marginalized African American women and children in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during the height of the AIDS epidemic. As a new social worker, Dale found herself swept up in the turbulence created by the virus, a disease unlike any other because everything about it was cloaked in secrecy and fraught with stigma, misinformation, misogyny, and the overwhelming public fear of AIDS. Embedded in these deeply moving chapters, are never-before-told stories of intimacies, heroic acts, joys and failures-her clients' as well as her own. These women and children received the same terrifying diagnosis as gay men but had no powerful advocates fighting for them, little media recognition, and no celebrity attention. Their lives, their deaths, and their stories of survival deserve to be recognized as missing chapters in the early history of the AIDS epidemic in America. Dale Bratter has spent four decades working in a variety of capacities with vulnerable and marginalized women and children. Her commentaries on social issues have appeared in Hearst publications. This witness memoir speaks to the depth of her compassion, fearlessness, and advocacy. Dale is retired and lives in Connecticut with her husband. She has a son living in Great Britain, and she enjoys the company of her close-by daughter, her eight grandchildren, forty-one koi, and the nearby birds, wildlife, and hiking trails.
Author: Dorothy Keville Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 157
Book Description
This book is of importance in introducing readers to Dorothy Keville and her work that was the cornerstone effort in facilitating the first Federally funded program for HIV/AIDS drugs. When she began more than three decades ago, hers was a revolutionary concept, and in the mid-1990's there was a new and unknown disease named HIV/AIDS that needed a revolution in attitude, approach and funding. With her generous manner and savvy insight to human behavior she masterminded unheard of collaboration bringing together angry activists, conservative politicians and unwilling drug manufacturers to Get Things Done.
Author: Donna Hubbard McCree Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9780387783208 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Author: Dorie J. Gilbert Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313039070 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. This volume brings together the collective wisdom of scholars, researchers, and social work professionals dealing with these concerns. Focusing attention on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, this book presents culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women. An historical and current overview of the alarming HIV infection rate among African Americans, in particular women, introduces the crisis. Subsequent chapters highlight HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention strategies that are successfully impacting the African American population. Guided by a feminist perspective and grounded in social construction theory, social work theory, and social work practice, this volume privileges the voice of African American women, the group that is the most disenfranchised—and least accurately represented—in AIDS-related research and writing. This essential guide sheds light on a calamity too often overlooked, making it especially valuable for scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners involved with HIV/AIDS issues in the African American community, and with women's and black studies.
Author: Lessie Myles
Author: Jacob Levenson
Author: Dan Royles
Author: Donna Hubbard McCree, PhD, MPH, RPh
Author: Geneva E. Bell
Author: Dan Royles
Author: Dale Napolin Bratter
Author: Dorothy Keville
Author: Donna Hubbard McCree
Author: Dorie J. Gilbert