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This leads to the conclusion that faith-based organizations could play an important role in HIV / AIDS prevention and treatment in the community.
Anyone familiar with HIV research is aware of the high correlation between drug using populations and HIV infection, because addicts engage in practices like needle sharing and are more likely to engage in unprotected sex with unknown partners. Therefore, one would expect that HIV prevalence would be higher among African-American women in detoxification than in other groups given that the prevalence is higher in the regular population. What they found was that whites and Hispanics had higher levels of total HIV risk scores and risky injection use scores than African-Americans (Wu et al., 2010). This suggests that there is not an easy to understand correlation between drug use and risk behavior when considered from the HIV context.
One of the major problems related to HIV prevalence in African-American women is, of course, the potential for transmission of HIV from mother to child in pregnant women. Hendree et al. looked at the feasibility of women-focused interventions in the African-American community, specifically the Women's CoOp program, as adapted for pregnant women. When they entered into treatment, these pregnant women experienced a host of complicating issues including: homelessness, unemployment, practicing unsafe sex, and involvement in violence (Hendree...
However, at the end of the intervention, there were significant reductions in homelessness, drug use, involvement in violence, and an increase in knowledge of HIV from baseline (Hendree et al., 2011).
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Muturi, N., & an, S. (2010). HIV / AIDS stigma and religiosity among African-American women. J Health Commun., 15(4), 388-401.
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