Download or read book A Phenomenological Study of HIV AIDS and Health Promotion Among African American Women written by Shakila Flentroy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women continue to be at the forefront of the discussion of health disparities, especially as related to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Nationally, African American women account for 64% of new HIV diagnoses among women, and AIDS is one of the top ten leading causes of death for African American women aged 15-64 years. Notwithstanding HIV/AIDS, African Americans continue to experience disparities related to physical health and mental health outcomes, as compared to the larger U.S. population. Although there has been a wealth of research examining HIV/AIDS prevention programs targeting African American women, the ways in which participants understand and create meaning from these interventions are lacking in the literature. Several qualitatively oriented papers have discussed themes derived from the lived experience of persons living with HIV/AIDS, however, the collective patterns of shared meanings and experiences (personal and cultural) that create a sense of purpose, and understanding to an individual's life as it pertains to HIV prevention have not been explored. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how the participants of the Healer Women Fighting Disease Project in Austin, Texas understand themselves in relation to the intervention. The Healer Women Fighting disease intervention is an African-centered HIV prevention program that includes a general health component to address preventive health alongside HIV/AIDS prevention. One component of the intervention focused on sacred stones (i.e., Healing Stone) as a traditional African healing tool used for African American women's health and mental health. Using Afrocentric theory as the basic framework for this program, the African Centered Behavioral Change Model was based on the principle of re-instilling traditional cultural values into African-descent people based on the premise that African Americans, for the most part, survived historically based on Afrocentric worldviews and African values and traditions. The data for the study were secondary data of journals written by women over an eight-week period who participated in the Healer Women program, a systematic random sample of the 60 journals (from the original study) was used to select 20 journals for analysis for this study. Phenomenological analysis was used to elicit themes, ultimately leading to five major themes, three of which had subthemes. The themes that emerged during the coding and analysis process included: turning to a higher power (subthemes: leaning on faith and practicing faith); self-care (subthemes: thinking, identifying and practicing); sense of true self (subthemes: becoming, I can imagine, and I am), healing from previous pain, and sense of purpose and meaning. Findings suggest that the sacred stones held strong resonance for the women and strongly impacted their commitment to better health and mental health. Further, creating meaning within the context of the women's African heritage was the key to achieving behavioral change, and empowering the women to make healthier life choices. In addition, the findings suggest that incorporating African cultural values in the lives of African American women promotes, physical and mental well-being, spirituality, healing, a sense of authentic self, and purpose and meaning. Therefore, as health disparities continue to rise in this population, Afrocentric and effective prevention programming is desperately needed. This research highlights that social work and public health prevention programs aimed at eradicating HIV/AIDS and promoting wellness for African American women should include African cultural values and principles as the core of the intervention in order to yield positive outcomes among this population.
Download or read book African American Women and HIV AIDS written by Dorie J. Gilbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Living with HIV Disease written by Judith C. James-Borga and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black/African American women are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of a group of lower socioeconomic, older Black/African American women, who were living with HIV disease. A purposive sample of ten participants was obtained and data was collected through unstructured interviews. Using the phenomenological stance of Merleau Ponty, and guided by van Manen's methodological processes, seven essential themes emerged: transcending adversity and becoming; using knowledge as empowerment; dealing with HIV stigma; concealing and revealing; tending to their emotional life; and caring for others while they themselves were being cared for. The meaning of living with HIV disease is a dynamic interrelated patterning process of these essential themes. The findings support Pamela Reed's theory of Self-Transcendence. Implications for nursing include: the urgent need for a paradigm shift that acknowledge the strengths of older Black/African American women; the need for the integration of sexual assessment and education on risk reduction and medication adherence into routine healthcare encounters; and for further research to expand the data base on strategies that older Black/African American women use to overcome diversity and live with HIV disease. Key Words: HIV; older Black/African American women; self-transcendence.
Download or read book A Study of the Lack of Hiv Aids Awareness Among African American Women a Leadership Perspective written by Betty L. Ragsdale - Hearns and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this dissertation for the School of Advanced Studies at University of Phoenix, Arizona, in 2011. To do the research for the dissertation, I spent quite a bit of time at the Center of Disease Control and Prevention archives as a graduate student. I also interviewed medical doctors and others who knew about the subject matter. Since I wrote this dissertation, there has been more research published that I will continue to research and add to my archival collection. The issues of this dissertation were discussed as the emergent theoretical model and its components, which included implications of research, practice, stigma, burden, advocacy, and awareness. Leadership, education, and community resources were the dominant themes that emerged in the study. The study findings imply an increased need for leaders to present public awareness about the affects HIV/AIDS has on the African American community. Future research should consider the explicit nature of the answers, which benefited the study. The information would be helpful while improving the quality of life available for African American women and would enable leaders to interact with a leadership perspective (USAID, 2009).
Download or read book Black Women s Risk for HIV written by Quinn Gentry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environmentsspecifically inner-city neighborhoods like the Rough in Atlantathat place black women in danger of HIV infection. Using black feminism to deconstruct the meaning and significance of race, class, and gender, this text gives a voice to a unique disenfranchised population and legitimizes their lives and experiences. This important ethnographic study focuses not only on the problems associated with the continued rise in HIV rates among African American women, but provides viable solutions to these problems as well.
Download or read book International Perspectives on Women and HIV written by Samuel A MacMaster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women’s health has become the focus of increased concern. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2004) reports that almost 20 million women and girls are living with HIV globally, accounting for nearly half of all people living with HIV worldwide. Infection rates among women are rising in every region worldwide including high-income countries in which heterosexual intercourse may now be the most common mode of transmission. Although there are many contributing factors to the current trends in HIV, most women who become HIV-infected do not practice "high-risk" behaviour. Women worldwide may individually view themselves as less susceptible than men, and may pay less attention about how HIV is transmitted and how to prevent infection. There are also gender inequalities, stemming from sexual double standards that constrain women’s access to care, treatment, and support. This work focuses on international perspectives on women and HIV casting a deliberately wide net addressing the issue of the interaction between HIV and gender in a specific geographic area. Our intention is to provide a forum for innovative manuscripts whose contribution to the literature is found in their unique approach to this interaction and application of empirical investigation to unique problems and/or populations. This material was published in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
Download or read book Holding On written by Alyson O'Daniel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the 2006 Treatment Modernization Act. At a time when social support resources were in decline and publicly funded HIV/AIDS care programs were being re-prioritized, women’s daily struggles with chronic poverty, drug addiction, mental health, and neighborhood violence influenced women’s lives in sometimes unexpected ways. An ethnographic portrait of HIV-positive black women and their interaction with the U.S. healthcare system, Holding On reveals how gradients of poverty and social difference shape women’s health care outcomes and, by extension, women’s experience of health policy reform. Set among the realities of poverty, addiction, incarceration, and mental illness, the case studies in Holding On illustrate how subtle details of daily life affect health and how overlooking them when formulating public health policy has fostered social inequality anew and undermined health in a variety of ways.
Download or read book AIDS Crises Among African Americans written by Eloise V. Lewis and published by Vberry & Assoc. Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this hermeneutic, phenomenological research study was to explore the perceptions of African-American men and women of genocide conspiracy and sexual health practices in relation to high rates of HIV/AIDS among blacks"--page 28.
Download or read book Stigma and Quality of Life in African American Women Living with HIV Infection Through the Lens of Intersectionality written by Alphoncina John Kaihura and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conclusions are stigma can be a major obstacle for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment; and,social support such as having a partner or being married, having a college education, and limiting comorbidities can have a positive effect on QOL and stigma.This study addressed a gap in science by considering social and health characteristics on stigma and QOL as perceived by AAW living with HIV infection. These findings may help in the development of HIV/AIDS health education interventions and policies that are holistic, gender-appropriate, culturally acceptable, and address the unique personal, social, and health concerns of and support needed by AAW.
Download or read book What are the Concerns of HIV positive African American Women about Motherhood written by Yasmin Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality of Life Among African American Women and HIV written by Necoal Driver and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine African American women who are HIV positive, and their perception of everyday life as it relates to their overall quality of life. Within the social service community, there is a need to examine this particular population and learn to deal with not only the health crisis of having HIV, but also health problems that may interfere with their daily lives. Surveys are included.
Download or read book African American Women Living with HIV AIDS written by Lonar Anthony Umadhay and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African born Women Seeking HIV Care in Philadelphia written by Kimberly McClellan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the U.S. care arena, both privately and federally funded programs exist to provide targeted HIV care and services. The majority of these programs place emphasis on access to care, especially for programs serving diverse and traditionally vulnerable populations. Despite this programmatic availability, African-born, HIV-positive women living in the U.S. continue to experience care disparity. This study's significance derives from the need to redress the injustice of health disparity encountered by this population. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore and understand the role of a community of practice among African-born, HIV-positive women seeking and obtaining care in Philadelphia. The Promise Keepers are an existing community of practice that gathers regularly to deepen, share, and create a living repository of their knowledge of living as HIV-positive, African-born women. The participants of this study were purposely sampled by convenience from this existing practice community of seven African-born women, representative of five diverse African countries of origin. These seven participants included women ranging in age from 25 to 62 with a mean age of 44 years of age. They possessed diverse family composition in terms of marital and parental status, as well as attained educational levels. The methods of this study included one-on-one interviews, a group interview, and participant observation. Through thematic coding of the stories or "Way Makers" of the Promise Keepers, this study's three major themes emerged: (a) internal perception of self, (b) external perception of self, and (c) community. Apparent through analysis and framed theoretically by Rosenstock's Health Belief Model (HBM) was this study's finding of the relevance and positive effect of education in the restoration of self-efficacy among community of practice members. As voiced by the Promise Keepers, it was the group-mediated education, established trust, and created "safe space" that reduced members' perceived risk of isolation and enhanced their perceived benefit of seeking support to achieve wellness. Additionally, this study's adaptation of Rosenstock's HBM with the social cognitive construct of self-efficacy among HIV-positive, African-born women living in the U.S. presents a novel addition to the subject literature. Through the voiced, lived experiences of this practice community recommendations for expanded outreach, future research, and adaptation of the HBM, along with implications for practice and teaching, are presented. Key words: African born, women, HIV, access to care, disparity, injustice, community of practice, phenomenological, self-efficacy, Rosenstock's Health Belief Model, safe space, wellness.
Download or read book Rehabilitation Service Utilization Among African American Women Living with HIV AIDS written by Aisha E. Shamburger-Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women represent one of the largest groups disproportionately living with and affected by HIV/AIDS yet African American women have largely been unrepresented in the federal-state rehabilitation system. As pharmaceutical treatment options improve and individuals with HIV/AIDS are living longer and healthier lives, research exploring the appropriateness of rehabilitation services has increased. Accordingly, it has become more necessary to address the needs of this population. As the largest service provider for people with disabilities, the state-federal rehabilitation system has the potential to be a vital resource for African American women living with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this study is to identify and examine variables related to and predictive of the utilization of rehabilitative services among a sample of African American women living with HIV/AIDS in the United States who volunteered to complete the National Working Positive Coalition - Vocational Development and Employment Needs Survey (NWPC-VDENS). The sample for this study was 313 African American women living with HIV/AIDS who were recruited from AIDS service organizations and national networks throughout the United States. Participants voluntarily completed the NWPC - VDENS, which explored their needs in the areas of education, training, employment, and health. The behavioral model for vulnerable populations was utilized as a framework to organize and examine predisposing, enabling and need constructs as they related to the utilization of rehabilitative services among African American women living with HIV/AIDS. This study used descriptive, bivariate and binary hierarchical logistic regression statistical analyses to determine the extent to which the constructs were predictive of the use of vocational rehabilitative services. The bivariate analyses produced no statistically significant differences between users and non-users of vocational rehabilitation services for either the predisposing or need variables. Three enabling characteristics, receipt of income benefits, knowledge of services, and reasonable access were all found to have statistical significance in the bivariate analyses. At least one variable from each construct was statistically significant in the regression model. Receipt of income benefits and knowledge of rehabilitation services were found to be predictive of the utilization of vocational rehabilitation services. Study findings framed from previous research, study limitations, implications, and recommendations for future research were acknowledged.
Download or read book African American Women Living with HIV AIDS in California written by Indiana Molina Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between stigma, levels of support and sources of strength for adult African American women living with HIV/AIDS in California. Research indicated higher levels of support and sources of strength correlate with lower levels of perceived stigma. The self-report survey was completed by 18 women using a descriptive and quantitative design. Although correlations were not significant at the .05 level, they were in the expected direction. The results indicated the higher levels of family support, friend support, and sources of strength, the lower levels of perceived stigma. Future research in this area could focus on aspects of diversity, including different cultural backgrounds within the African American community, and the impact HIV/AIDS has on the overall family. Implications for social work practice and policy include elevating awareness of effects perceived stigma has on mental health and wellbeing of those living with HIV/AIDS.
Download or read book Using Respondent driven Sampling Entertainment Education and Social Media to Reduce HIV in the African American Community written by Susan L. Davies and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV transmission rates are disproportionately high among African Americans in the Deep South. To address this, the Community Influences Transitions in Youth Health (CITY Health II) study focused on decreasing HIV transmission rates among 18- to 25-year-old African American emerging adults living in resource-poor southern urban communities. CITY Health II is a 5-year HIV prevention study that tests the efficacy of a peer-driven entertainment education intervention compared with an attention-control intervention using a cluster randomized trial design. We enlisted nine musicians and groups to help us create an entertaining and educational web-based video series, "The Beat HIVe," for study participants to view on smartphones and share with peers on social media. Videos each consist of a brief question-and-answer session with the artists about central HIV prevention topics, followed by a performance of their original material. Data collection interviews at baseline, 3-month, and 6-month follow-up assessed sociodemographics, risk and protective behaviors, social networks, and peer norms. This case study highlights two novel research methods that bring unique strengths to increase research rigor and feasibility. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a recruitment method that accesses participants' existing social networks to recruit a representative sample from the target population. Timeline Followback is a calendar-based interview method designed to facilitate recall by quantifying specific risk behaviors over time. Outcomes from this study will help to inform optimal ways to reach at-risk populations through education entertainment and peer diffusion to improve sexual health behaviors.
Download or read book Socialization Sexuality Susceptibility Separation written by Ama R. Saran and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women represent the majority of new HIV infections and AIDS among women, making them an essential source of improved understanding for prevention more than simply another risk group. They now account for 65% of the AIDS diagnoses among women 13 years and older with a diagnosis rate of 35.1/100,000 (CDC, 2011). Three decades of the epidemic, significantly improved therapies producing greater longevity among the infected, medicalized sexuality and an increase in divorce and dating among Baby Boomers drive the CDC prediction that 50% of people with HIV/AIDS will be over 50 by 2015 (2010). Thus, this qualitative study's purpose was to better understand how older black women managed their sexual relationships and constructed sexual safety as residents of an urban disease epicenter. Social Phenomenology and Participatory Action Research (PAR) structured the overall design which used in-depth interviews of five HIV positive, five HIV negative black women, 51--69 years. The goal was to better understand the women's perceptions of separation from HIV/AIDS to prevent susceptibility translated through their lived experience as sexually active older women. The findings were analyzed through Critical Black Feminist Standpoint Theory and Social Gerontology Theory which illuminated common themes of safety nets for exemption from susceptibility among all the women whether held prior to diagnosis or currently by the HIV negative. Interpretive phenomenological analysis revealed how imagination mediates between potential and real, reflecting how what was present in each women's consciousness created the reality of separation, situating it as essential truth. Themes were: 1) religion/spirituality buffering HIV/AIDS threat and reality, 2) conscious/unconsciousness use of knowledge to negotiate relationships, 3) role of sex/sexuality for social exchange, and 4) use of proxy measures for HIV/AIDS detection/prevention in lieu of HIV testing. The implications are that there exists a critical need to significantly normalize prevention by restructuring screening/testing for older black women using the perspectives of their lived experience to improve public health, social work and behavioral research to augment the psychological literature and significantly refine practice.-- Abstract.
