Author: Stephen J. Inrig
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869155
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the epidemic disproportionately affects African American communities across the region. Using the history of HIV in North Carolina as a case study, Stephen Inrig examines the rise of AIDS in the South in the period from the early spread and discovery of the disease through the late nineties. Drawing on epidemiological, archival, and oral history sources, Inrig probes the social determinants of health that put poor, rural, and minority communities at greater risk of HIV infection in the American South. He also examines the difficulties that health workers and AIDS organizations faced in reaching those communities, especially in the early years of the epidemic. His analysis provides an important counterweight to most accounts of the early history of the disease, which focus on urban areas and the spread of AIDS in the gay community. As one of the first historical studies of AIDS in a southern state, North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS provides powerful insight into the forces and factors that have made AIDS such an intractable health problem in the American South and the greater United States.
Author: North Carolina AIDS Task Force
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Kimberlee Ann Elmore
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Cynthia A. Dy
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Kathryn Whetten
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813531151
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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In the second wave of the HIV epidemic, those with the disease are more likely than ever to be female, younger, heterosexual, a racial minority, and rural-living. Vital to the development of user-friendly health care systems is an understanding of the vastly different lives of this second wave of HIV-infected persons."You're the First One I've Told" offers a view into the lives of men and women infected with HIV. The experiences of twenty-five people living with this disease in rural eastern North Carolina serve as the foundation of this book, which also draws upon unique HIV/AIDS survey data collected by the authors and statistics from the Southeastern United States. This combination of qualitative and quantitative information provides readers with a vivid description of how people live with HIV/AIDS in the midst of their often traumatic lives, and why they manage their illness in ways that seem to contradict mainstream medical and social wisdom. The people interviewed represent a variety of races, genders, professions, family lives, and medical and social service access and utilization.This book is the first to address a history of racism, distrust of formalized medical systems, homophobia, trauma and their interplay with HIV treatment, particularly in the South. It is an indispensable read for students needing to understand health care for the disenfranchised, as well as any provider, policymaker, or researcher involved in HIV service provision.
Author: North Carolina. AIDS Control Program
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Author: Sandra Cox Holmes
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Sarah Abigail Kaminer
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Mrs. Octavia Coleman, MHSA
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557244641
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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This research project identifies the need for improvements in community based organizations and the responsibility placed on community leaders to provide and execute quality attention to the stigma related issues in African-American communities.
