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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
AIDS is Also an Indian Problem
Author: AIDS is Also an Indian Problem
Author: HIV/AIDS Work Group on Health Care Access Issues for American Indians/Alaska Natives
Author: American Indian Alaska Native Work Group on Barriers to HIV CarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Multicultural Human Services for AIDS Treatment and Prevention
Author: Marcia BokPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317952863
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This much-needed book presents an introduction and overview of multicultural AIDS issues in social work practice. In a culturally diverse nation, it is essential that professionals look at AIDS within a cultural context in order to find the most effective treatment and prevention strategies for everyone. Emphasizing this need for a culturally sensitive approach, Multicultural Human Services for AIDS Treatment and Prevention increases social workers’often limited knowledge and experience with various social and ethnic groups. It provides specific suggestions and recommendations for program development and acts as a foundation upon which to build new strategies for policy, research, and practice. Multicultural Human Services for AIDS Treatment and Prevention emphasizes the importance of encouraging and sharing research that addresses AIDS and minority populations and assessing prevention, education, and behavioral change strategies from culturally specific and relevant perspectives. It includes chapters focusing on African Americans, Native American Indians, Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican prostitutes--groups that often suffer disproportionately from poverty and its myriad effects. Some topics discussed in the book are: helping clients reduce cultural dissonance how to enhance behavior change child welfare and permanency planning empowerment of clients and health care models knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding HIV/AIDS cultural contradictions and ambivalence in response to AIDS Multicultural Human Services for AIDS Treatment and Prevention is an extremely useful and informative book for all professionals in social work and human services who want to be better prepared to help all groups of people. The book is also an ideal text for upper-level social work students studying topics such as multicultural issues in social work practice, AIDS in a cultural context, and health policy and health care systems.
Killing Us Quietly
Author: Irene S. VernonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803296244
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Through a series of personal narratives, the author minutely examines the AIDS epidemic and its social and cultural consequences among three Native American groups in three geographical areas. 5 charts.
At Risk
Author: Gowri VijayakumarPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 150362806X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to prevent it. HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as at-risk—sex workers and men who have sex with men. At Risk captures this unique moment in which these criminalized and marginalized groups reinvented their "at-risk" categorization and became central players in the crisis response. The AIDS crisis created a contradictory, conditional, and temporary opening for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activists to renegotiate citizenship and to make demands on the state. Working across India and Kenya, Gowri Vijayakumar provides a fine-grained account of the political struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response. These range from everyday articulations of sexual identity in activist organizations in Bangalore to new approaches to HIV prevention in Nairobi, where prevention strategies first introduced in India are adapted and circulate, as in the global AIDS field more broadly. Vijayakumar illuminates how the politics of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape global crisis response. In so doing, she considers the precarious potential for social change in and after a crisis.
HIV/AIDS Work Group on Health Care Access Issues for Gay and Bisexual Men of Color
Author: HIV/AIDS as a Security Threat to India
Author: Happymon JacobPublisher: Manohar Publishers
ISBN: 9788173046308
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Hiv/Aids Is A Security Threat To India Because It Threatens The Economic, Human, Societal, And Even The Traditional Notions Of Security. This Study Seeks To Build Up This Argument With An Understanding Of Security And How These Various Sectors Of India`S Security Are Threatened By Hiv/Aids.
HIV AIDS
Author: Collective Care
Author: Pamela DownePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487587635
Category : HIV infections
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This engaging ethnography explores how Indigenous women and their communities practice collective care to sustain traditional lifeways in what has been called Canada's HIV hot zone.