The Four Cs of HIV Prevention with African Americans: Crisis, Condoms, Culture, and Community
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: HIV/AIDS continues to be a devastating epidemic with African American communities carrying the brunt of the impact. Despite extensive biobehavioral research, current strategies have not resulted in significantly decreasing HIV/AIDS cases among African Americans. The next generation of HIV prevention and risk reduction interventions must move beyond basic sex education and condom use and availability. Successful interventions targeting African Americans must optimize strategies that integrate socio-cultural factors and address institutional and historical barriers that hinder or support HIV risk reduction behaviors. Community-based participatory research to decrease the HIV/AIDS disparity by building community capacity and infrastructure and advocating for and distributing equitably, power and resources, must be promoted. Recommendations for paradigm shifts in using innovative theories and conceptual frameworks and for training researchers, clinicians, grant and journal reviewers, and community members are made so that culturally congruent interventions may be tested and implemented at the community level.
Source: Current HIV/AIDS Reports
Authors: John K. Williams, Gail E. Wyatt, Gina Wingood
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, Emory University
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,190
Funders: National Institutes of Health, Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, UCLA AIDS Institute, Center for AIDS Research, University of California Los Angeles
Awards: CDU/UCLA Project EXPORT Center, G1345503394, G1880278782, G2925667607, G3485887854, G5146053897, The Collaborative Center for Trauma and Mental Health Disparities, G6112660351, An HIV Intervention for Black Men at Risk, G7710859931, UCLA Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), G9000014846, G9000052707
OpenAlex ID: W2113014704