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A Multilevel Approach To Understanding Hiv Related Behavior Among Asian Pacific Islander Men Who Have Sex With Men
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Book Synopsis A Multilevel Approach to Understanding HIV-related Behavior Among Asian/Pacific Islander Men who Have Sex with Men by : Judy Yourong Tan
Download or read book A Multilevel Approach to Understanding HIV-related Behavior Among Asian/Pacific Islander Men who Have Sex with Men written by Judy Yourong Tan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis HIV Prevention Among Asian and Pacific Islander American Men who Have Sex with Men by : Chwee Lye Chng
Download or read book HIV Prevention Among Asian and Pacific Islander American Men who Have Sex with Men written by Chwee Lye Chng and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis HIV and Men who Have Sex with Men in Asia and the Pacific by : Roger Winder
Download or read book HIV and Men who Have Sex with Men in Asia and the Pacific written by Roger Winder and published by Unaids Regional Support Team East and Southern Africa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "men who have sex with men" - frequently shortened to MSM - describes a behaviour rather than a specific group of people. It includes self-identified gay, bisexual, transgendered or heterosexual men. Many men who have sex with men do not consider themselves gay or bisexual. They are often married, particularly where discriminatory laws or social stigma of male sexual relations exist. Largely because of the taboo, the female partners of men who have sex with men are often unaware of their partner's other liaisons, and the threat posed to themselves. Forced sex among men is not uncommon, especially in men-only environments such as prisons. Men who have sex with men are found in all societies, yet are largely invisible in many places. In terms of HIV, sex between men is significant because it can involve anal sex, which when unprotected carries a very high risk. Sex between men is thought to account for between 5 and 10% of global HIV infections, although the proportion of cases attributed to this mode of transmission varies considerably between countries. It is the predominant mode in much of the developed world. Globally less than one in twenty men who have sex with men have access to the HIV prevention and care services they need. Many factors contribute to this situation including denial by society and communities, stigma and discrimination, and human rights abuse. Vulnerability to HIV infection is increased where sex between men is criminalised, as men are either excluded from, or exclude themselves from, sexual health and welfare agencies out of fear. A range of interventions to reduce risk behaviours among men who have sex with men have proven successful, including: condom promotion, safer-sex campaigns and skills training; peer education with outreach programmes; and programmes tailored to subpopulations such as male sex workers and men in prisons. Specific policy measures are crucial for making prevention, care and support available to men who have sex with men. First and foremost, they must be included in national HIV programming and funding priorities. The governments must support organisations of men who have sex with men, enabling them to promote HIV prevention and care programmes and to participate in HIV planning and policymaking. Legislation should be changed, decriminalizing same-sex acts and providing protective laws against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Book Synopsis New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men by : Michael Wright
Download or read book New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men written by Michael Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognized that current HIV intervention models are falling short of their goals. What are the alternatives? To answer this question, New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men presents a collection of articles from European and American authors that rival dominant paradigms of HIV prevention. Researchers, practitioners, and community organizations will be challenged to examine current assumptions and to consider neglected aspects of risk behavior such as love, trust, and the dynamics of sexual intimacy. New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men explores models and theories that will help you develop more effective HIV prevention programs to better serve patients and clients. New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men offers you fresh perspectives on prevention work by examining risk behaviors in the interactional, communal, and social contexts in which they are practiced. You will receive alternative explanations and reasons for HIV risk that go beyond current approaches and that introduce possibilities for new intervention strategies. Written by experts in the field, the chapters in New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men will give you insight into new ideas and developments, including: placing a greater emphasis on improving successful risk management strategies as opposed to quantifying risk factors examining the meaning and context of sexual acts which occur in casual encounters or steady partnerships and incorporating their relevancy into prevention work considering the effects that cultural context and socially constructed meanings have on prevention work and incorporating individuals’values and feelings into prevention strategies focusing on more realistic goals of harm reduction that take sexual decision making into consideration as opposed to expecting abstinence relating the various aspects of sexual encounters--physical attraction, intimacy, reciprocity, and power--to reasons why men choose not to use condoms Examining how gay men can underestimate the risk of HIV in order to meet needs of intimacy, New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men will help you understand the symbolic dimension of sexual contact. The normal, everyday reasons for having sex without a condom are explored, questioning models which often characterize unprotected sex as being the result of low self-esteem, substance abuse, or some other psychological vulnerability. Presenting data from both qualitative and quantitative research conducted at group and individual levels, this book reveals the complexity of risk behavior, the richness of sexual experience, and the importance of respecting the unique context in which gay men live their sexual lives. New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men will help you understand this point of view, enabling you to provide patients and clients with more effective HIV prevention and risk management services.
Book Synopsis Sexual Minority Stress, Health Beliefs, and Self-efficacy by : Ronald Del Castillo
Download or read book Sexual Minority Stress, Health Beliefs, and Self-efficacy written by Ronald Del Castillo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a need for research that examines cultural factors as well as theoretical constructs of health behavior to understand HIV-related risk among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) gay and bisexual men. The present study examined the effects of sexual minority stress, health beliefs, and self-efficacy on sexual risk behaviors. The online-based sample was recruited through a social networking website and included API gay and bisexual men (mean age = 28.5 years, SD = 6.77; 66% gay; 71% U.S.-born). The results showed that prejudice events, perceived susceptibility to HIV infection, and self-efficacy predicted condom use during anal intercourse with a male partner in the 3 months prior to participation in the study. However, stigma, internalized homophobia, and perceived severity of HIV did not have significant associations with condom use. The findings suggest that a multifaceted approach to prevention and intervention is needed to maximize outreach, education, and research efforts.
Book Synopsis Action Steps and Report from the Northwest Regional Workshop by :
Download or read book Action Steps and Report from the Northwest Regional Workshop written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies of Incidence, Prevalence and Risk Factors for HIV Infection in Special Populations of Men who Have Sex with Men by : Trista Amber Bingham
Download or read book Studies of Incidence, Prevalence and Risk Factors for HIV Infection in Special Populations of Men who Have Sex with Men written by Trista Amber Bingham and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis HIV and Men who Have Sex with Men in Asia and the Pacific by : Joint United Nations Programme on HI
Download or read book HIV and Men who Have Sex with Men in Asia and the Pacific written by Joint United Nations Programme on HI and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asia and the Pacific alone, an estimated 7.1 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, which means that this region has the second-largest number of people living with the virus after Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, men who have sex with men (MSM) constitute a vulnerable group because of the risk associated with their sexual practices, and related HIV transmission is particularly significant in the more developed sub-regions of Asia and the Pacific.
Book Synopsis HIV/AIDS Among Men who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Populations in South-East Asia by :
Download or read book HIV/AIDS Among Men who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Populations in South-East Asia written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Same-sex behavior is identified in all societies. However, in the South-East Asia Region, the majority of men who have sex with men and transgender persons are highly stigmatized and discriminated against. There are an estmated 4-5 million men who have sex with men; among the transgender population, the number is less clear. Many of them are involved in high risk sexual behaviors that put them at risk for HIV infection, resulting in a high and increasing HIV prevalence in several countries of the Region. Control of HIV infections among these populations is thus an urgent public health priority. The countries included in this review are Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste. Though most of them have some form of interventions for men who have sex with men and transgender populations, the majority of these populations do not have access to various HIV services due to widespread stigma and discrimination, and punitive laws in most countries. This report provides information on the status of the epidemic among these populations in the South-East Asia Region. It highlights the need for improved advocacy efforts and a greater national response to save the lives of these populations who are at risk for HIV infection.
Book Synopsis Risk and Protective Factors Related to HIV-risk Behavior by : Jason C. Forney
Download or read book Risk and Protective Factors Related to HIV-risk Behavior written by Jason C. Forney and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sexual Behaviors and HIV-related Knowledge Among Asian and Pacific Islander College Students by : Lillian Faye Lim
Download or read book Sexual Behaviors and HIV-related Knowledge Among Asian and Pacific Islander College Students written by Lillian Faye Lim and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Balancing Act by : Gavin M. Myers
Download or read book The Balancing Act written by Gavin M. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perceptions of Parental Support by HIV Positive Asian and Pacific Islander American Gay Sons by : Kerrily Joy Kitano
Download or read book Perceptions of Parental Support by HIV Positive Asian and Pacific Islander American Gay Sons written by Kerrily Joy Kitano and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond the Individual: The Roles of Social and Structural Contexts in HIV Prevention and HIV Acquisition in the United States by : Jessica L. Maksut
Download or read book Beyond the Individual: The Roles of Social and Structural Contexts in HIV Prevention and HIV Acquisition in the United States written by Jessica L. Maksut and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present dissertation leverages the utility of analyzing a variety of secondary data sources to explore relationships between qualities of social and structural environments and HIV-related outcomes via a social-ecological approach. Advances in HIV outcomes for vulnerable, high-risk populations, e.g., African-American/Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (BMSM), have been stymied by social and behavioral scientists' tendency to primarily call upon individual-behavioral factors to explain the elevated rates of HIV observed within BMSM communities. This dissertation employs a broader analytical lens to explore relationships between social and structural variables with HIV acquisition and other key HIV-related outcomes (Studies 1 and 2). This dissertation also uses social media data to garner insights about the general public's understandings of, and attitudes toward, extant HIV prevention tools. Location-based social media data are used to link attitudes toward HIV prevention tools with various social and structural characteristics of the geographic locations from where the content originates (Study 3). The results of the three studies indicate that there are real HIV prevention and acquisition considerations for social- and structural-level variables, such that factors at these levels have significant main and interactive associations with key HIV prevention, HIV risk behavior, and HIV acquisition variables. Taken together, the results indicate that HIV prevention and care strategies should not treat HIV as an independent social problem. Instead, future interventions must be multi-level in nature, with goals of positive behavioral as well as social and structural change.
Book Synopsis Predictors of HIV-related Risk and Risk Avoidance Behavior Among Seropositive Men who Have Sex with Men by : Jessica Tam Offir
Download or read book Predictors of HIV-related Risk and Risk Avoidance Behavior Among Seropositive Men who Have Sex with Men written by Jessica Tam Offir and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effects of Stigma, Sense of Community, and Self-esteem on the HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American and Latino Men who Have Sex with Men by : Teresa Jacobs Finlayson
Download or read book Effects of Stigma, Sense of Community, and Self-esteem on the HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American and Latino Men who Have Sex with Men written by Teresa Jacobs Finlayson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a disproportionately large burden of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic in the United States. To further enhance HIV prevention efforts among men of color, a survey was conducted within New York City's house ball community; a community largely comprised of racial and ethnic minority persons. Time-space sampling was adapted to recruit participants for the survey from venues frequented by members of the house ball community. Using logistic regression analysis, this study examined the effects of perceived stigma, enacted stigma, sense of community and self-esteem on unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) among a sub-sample of men in the survey. Both perceived and enacted stigma had a modest direct effect on engaging in UAI. The direct effect on UAI was significant even after controlling for covariates in the model. The magnitude of the effect on UAI did not vary by race/ethnicity or sexual identity. In addition, perceived and enacted stigma correlated negatively to both sense of community and self-esteem scores. Although sense of community did not buffer the effect of perceived or enacted stigma on UAI, both sense of community and self-esteem were protective against engaging in UAI. However, while the direct effect of sense of community on UAI remained after controlling for covariates in the model, the effect self-esteem had on UAI diminished after adding variables to the model. Further, self-esteem was negatively correlated with both perceived and enacted stigma, but it did not mediate perceived and enacted stigma's effect on UAI. Implications for HIV prevention strategies given these findings are discussed. Implications include developing multilevel interventions, including structural interventions, to reduce the stigma that is perceived and experienced by men of color as well as building stronger communities for African American and Latino MSM.
