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Creator:: Kandathil, Sonia M.
Abstract:: With women comprising nearly 50% of HIV/AIDS infections globally, the development of new woman-initiated HIV prevention methods has become a public health imperative. To date, the female condom and the diaphragm are the only woman-initiated prevention methods available on the consumer market. Recent research has focused on two HIV/AIDS prevention...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: nearly 60% of all people infected by HIV are women (UNAIDS, 2009). HIV infection is 1.3 times more

Creator:: Towner, Senna Lee
Abstract:: Urban African American adolescents exhibit high levels of risk behavior, disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and are at risk for acquiring Human Immunodefiency Virus (HIV). To date, interventions that address the high rates of STIs in this population demonstrate only moderate efficacy. As researchers strive to develop...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: populations, including African American youth. In 2010, HIV infection diagnoses among African American youth

Creator:: Akudibillah, Gordon Amed
Abstract:: Apart from the traditional role of preventing progression from HIV to AIDS, antiretroviral drug therapy (ART) has an additional benefit of substantially reducing infectiousness, making them potentially an important strategy in the fight against HIV. Recent advances in drug therapy have also seen the use of antiretroviral drugs as a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.1 Diagram of 5-stage HIV/AIDS infection model. HIV-infected people are in red and susceptible

Creator:: Mitchell, Jason W.
Abstract:: Recent estimates indicate that over 50% of gay men acquire HIV from their main sexual partners while in their relationship (Sullivan et al., 2009). Despite this statistic, the majority of research has focused on individual factors as predictors of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) and not on relationship factors. The few...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: those in Europe, have experienced similar trends of increased HIV infection among MSM (Coates, 2008

Creator:: McKay, Virginia R.
Abstract:: Evidence-based interventions (EBIs), which demonstrate efficacy in research settings, are rarely sustained when implemented in public health organizations. Rather, EBIs are often de-adopted - potentially undermining the positive benefits of the EBIs for the communities that access them. The lack of sustainability is particularly troubling among public health organizations that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 12.8% of people infected with HIV are unaware of their infection (CDC, 2015). While HIV incidence

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