Recently added articles from Health and Social Work:
Enduring issues of HIV/AIDS for people of color: what is the roadmap ahead?(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... It is with great pleasure that we write an introduction to this eagerly anticipated special issue that is devoted to challenges and interventions among people of color with HIV/AIDS. Our goal is to provide a window into how social work has contributed to the development of innovative, ...
HIV testing rates and testing locations, by race and ethnicity.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), proposed, a new HIV-prevention strategy, titled HIV Prevention Strategic Plan through 2005," with the aim of increasing the U.S. population's knowledge of their HIV status by 25 percent. HIV testing was promoted as a core ...
Predictors of medication adherence in an AIDS clinical trial: patient and clinician perceptions.(Clinical report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... In phase I and phase II trials with participants who have HIV, close monitoring of medication adherence is usually part of the study design. In phase III trials, however, medication and appointment adherence may not be as tightly monitored or reported, and thus the extent of nonadherence ...
HIV/AIDS in communities of color: a Lasswellian analysis.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2008), more than 1.2 million people in the United States are believed to be living with HIV/AIDS, and more than 15,000 die each year from the disease. In 2007, people of color constituted approximately 34 percent of the ...
Chopsticks don't make it culturally competent: addressing larger issues for HIV prevention among gay, bisexual, and queer Asian Pacific Islander men.(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Although still limited and in need of further examination, significant progress has been made in determining the factors that contribute to unsafe sexual behavior among Asian Pacific Islander (API) men who have sex with men (MSM). However, "at the dawn of the 3rd decade of AIDS in the ...