Understanding Prevention for HIV Positive Gay Men
Innovative Approaches in Addressing the AIDS Epidemic
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Beschreibung
This innovative collection offers a wide-ranging palette of psychological, public health, and sociopolitical approaches toward addressing the multi-level prevention needs of gay men living with HIV and AIDS. This book advances our understanding of comprehensive health care, risk and preventive behaviors, sources of mental distress and resilience, treatment adherence, and the experiences of gay men’s communities such as communities of color, youth, faith communities, and the house ball community. Interventions span biomedical, behavioral, structural, and technological approaches toward critical goals, including bolstering the immune system, promoting safer sexual practices, reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and eliminating barriers to care. The emphasis throughout these diverse chapters is on evidence-based, client-centered practice, coordination of care, and inclusive, culturally responsive services.
Included in the coverage:- Comprehensive primary health care for HIV positive gay men
- From pathology to resiliency: understanding the mental health of HIV positive gay men
- Emerging and innovative prevention strategies for HIV positive gay men
- Understanding the developmental and psychosocial needs of HIV positive gay adolescent males
- Social networks of HIV positive gay men: their role and importance in HIV prevention
- HIV positive gay men, health care, legal rights, and policy issues
Understanding Prevention for HIV Positive Gay Men will interest academics, researchers, prevention experts, practitioners, and policymakers in public health. It will also be important to research organizations, nonprofit organizations, and clinical agencies, as well as graduate programs related to public health, consultation, and advocacy.
This innovative collection offers a wide-ranging palette of psychological, public health, and sociopolitical approaches toward addressing the multi-level prevention needs of gay men living with HIV and AIDS. This book advances our understanding of comprehensive health care, risk and preventive behaviors, sources of mental distress and resilience, treatment adherence, and the experiences of gay men’s communities such as communities of color, youth, faith communities, and the house ball community. Interventions span biomedical, behavioral, structural, and technological approaches toward critical goals, including bolstering the immune system, promoting safer sexual practices, reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and eliminating barriers to care. The emphasis throughout these diverse chapters is on evidence-based, client-centered practice, coordination of care, and inclusive, culturally responsive services.
Included in the coverage:- Comprehensive primary health care for HIV positive gay men
- From pathology to resiliency: understanding the mental health of HIV positive gay men
- Emerging and innovative prevention strategies for HIV positive gay men
- Understanding the developmental and psychosocial needs of HIV positive gay adolescent males
- Social networks of HIV positive gay men: their role and importance in HIV prevention
- HIV positive gay men, health care, legal rights, and policy issues
Understanding Prevention for HIV Positive Gay Men will interest academics, researchers, prevention experts, practitioners, and policymakers in public health. It will also be important to research organizations, nonprofit organizations, and clinical agencies, as well as graduate programs related to public health, consultation, and advocacy.
Is based on statistics showing that MSM make up a disproportionate amount of the HIV infections in the US Calls for a new look at prevention with a focus on what is relevant to the life experiences of HIV-positive gay men Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Leo Wilton
Themen in »Understanding Prevention for HIV Positive Gay Men«
AIDS epidemic Gay community HIV prevention HIV/AIDS MSM Men who have sex with men Secondary HIV Prevention HIV-positive gay men HIV-related health disparities community health living with HIV men's studies sexual behaviour mens' studies