There have been many reactions to the release of preliminary data suggesting a significant increase in HIV incidence in San Francisco. Many are alarmed, some are saddened, and more than a few have a great deal of anger. The one reaction nobody has had is surprise. While a few don’t like the numbers and will argue about the analysis of them, there has been little shock that there appears to be a range of 750 – 900 new infections this year.
HIV has spread dramatically in minority communities, with African Americans currently being five times as likely as whites to contract HIV, and the disproportion continues to increase. Historically, few minority investigators have been funded by the NIH. Culturally appropriate measurements and methods are needed to successfully involve respondents and accurately measure their beliefs, values, and behaviors.
The principal objective of the International Core at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) is to facilitate high quality international research by creating effective and productive partnerships between CAPS scientists and HIV prevention researchers from developing countries.
Traditionally, responsibility for providing care in the home for people with serious illness has fallen to women as wives, mothers, or daughters of the afflicted individual. Among the many societal repercussions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the creation of a new group of caregivers—gay men who are the primary caregivers for their partners with AIDS.
Physicians, researchers, public health practitioners and patients are deluged with unmanageable amounts of information about the best approaches to prevention, treatment and health care delivery. Over the last 30 years, there has been an exponential rise in the number of published scientific articles across health fields.
Since 1991, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) has conducted collaborative research with local community-based HIV prevention organizations within a consortium model. Community-based research (CBR) refers to research that is conducted by or with the participation of community members. As conducted by CAPS, CBR was a full partnership, with the CBO partner taking the lead on developing the research question, delivering the intervention, and collecting the data.
The Voluntary HIV-1 Counseling and Testing Efficacy Study was designed to measure the efficacy of HIV VCT in developing country and resource poor settings where access to antiretrovirals and other expensive medications is difficult or impossible.
The National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center in collaboration with a number of other agencies sponsored the Fogarty Workshop on International HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Opportunities on April 18-20, 1998. The AIDS Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco hosted the Workshop.
This forum grew out of an interest in having dialogues between researchers, providers and community members (these categories are not mutually exclusive groups). This would serve the dual purpose of giving research legs so that it can inform programs and helping ensure that program and life experience inform research studies.
Another factor for calling this meeting was the high prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men and are also injection drug users (MSM IDUs).
This monograph is based largely on presentations and discussion at the June, 1999 policy forum Primary HIV Prevention: Designing Effective Programs for People Living with HIV. The Forum was hosted by the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF and the National Association of People with AIDS. The Forum was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
When the latest HIV prevalence consensus report was released in San Francisco in 1997, statistics revealed increasing HIV rates among gay and bisexual men of color. Among gay men of color, Latinos had the highest rates of HIV infection. In response to this, the STOP AIDS Project decided to heighten their HIV prevention efforts for Latino gay and bisexual men.
STOP AIDS convened a meeting for all of the agencies in San Francisco providing HIV prevention services for Latino gay and bisexual men.
In an effort to equip community and institutional leaders from the health professions with the skills and knowledge to sustain community-campus partnerships, we are pleased to provide you with a copy of Partnership Perspectives-a magazine designed to foster greater awareness of critical issues impacting upon partnerships between communities and health professions schools.
¿Qué necesítan los afro-americanos en la prevención del VIH? (revisado 8/00)
¿corren el riesgo de contraer el VIH los afro-americanos?
Sí. Muchos Afro-Americanos corren alto riesgo de infectarse con VIH, no por razones étnicas o raciales, sino por los comportamientos de riesgo en los que pueden estar participando.
What Are Deaf Persons’ HIV Prevention Needs?
Are deaf persons at risk for HIV?
Yes. It is estimated that 7,000 to 26,000 deaf persons in the US are infected with HIV.1 However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not currently collect information on deafness and HIV or AIDS. Maryland was the first state to include questions about deafness in its HIV counseling and testing forms.
¿Qué necesítan los sordos en la prevención del VIH?
¿están a riesgo de contraer el VIH?
Si. Se estima que en los EEUU existen de 7,000 a 26,000 personas carentes del sentido auditivo infectadas con el VIH.1 Sin embargo, los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en Inglés) actualmente no recopilan información acerca de los que padecen de sordera y VIH o SIDA.
What Are African-Americans’ HIV Prevention Needs?
revised 9/99
Are African-Americans at risk for HIV?
Yes. Many African-Americans are at high risk for HIV infection, not because of their race or ethnicity, but because of the risk behaviors they may engage in.
¿Qué necesitan los adolescentes en la prevención del VIH?
¿pueden contraer los adolescentes el VIH?
Desafortunadamente, sí. Los casos de infección del VIH se incrementan más aceleradamente en los jóvenes. La mitad de todos los casos de VIH se presentan en personas menores de 25 años. De todos los casos de VIH de 1994-1997 en jóvenes de 13-24 años, 44% eran mujeres y 63% Afro-Americanos.
What Are Adolescents’ HIV Prevention Needs?
Can adolescents get HIV?
Unfortunately, yes. HIV infection is increasing most rapidly among young people. Half of all new infections in the US occur in people younger than 25. From 1994 to 1997, 44% of all HIV infections among young people aged 13-24 occurred among females, and 63% among African-Americans.
