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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"HIV prevention"”.
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Bio-Behavioral Models for HIV Prevention
… In this dissertation, I model HIV transmission in two different populations: circular migrants in South Africa, and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Southern California. <italic>Objectives</italic>: One objective of the circular migrations (Chapter 2) project is to compare …
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African American women and HIV prevention
… to examine African American females and their HIV prevention methods, as well as to identify factors that may lead to the non-use of condoms. Seventy-one participants were recruited from Planned Parenthood in Detroit. The instrumentation used for this research was the Sexual Health and Beliefs …
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Dyad-related factors in HIV prevention
[Objectives] Currently, HIV prevention strategies focus on promoting the modification of those individual behaviours that lead to an increase in susceptibility to and transmission of HIV infection. The focus on individuals in HIV voluntary counselling and testing frequently overlooks the fact that …
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Fieldwork Summary Report: California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
… author’s fieldwork internship at California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (CA PTC) in Oakland, California. Students in the University of San Francisco (USF), Master of Public Health (MPH) program are required, as a final phase of their studies, to participate in a 300-hour fieldwork …
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HIV prevention communication in families affected by HIV/AIDS
… resource for educating children about HIV prevention. Parents and other family members can play a critical role in prevention efforts by using effective parenting practices, communicating their values and expectations, and modeling strategies that reduce the risk of acquiring HIV. …
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Performance of development NGOs in HIV prevention for young people
NGO literature is widely dispersed in numerous publications and often laborious to find. This article attempts to enhance understanding of development NGO performance by collating and discussing influencing factors. A systematic review of academic journal articles, published between 1996 and 2008, …
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Evaluation of Montana's HIV Prevention Social Marketing Campaign: A Descriptive Study
… descriptive study was to evaluate Montana’s 2006 HIV Prevention Social Marketing Campaign in two intervention communities: Flathead and Silver-Bow Counties and one comparison community: Lewis and Clark County. The intervention began in March 2006, and data was collected in the intervention …
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Evaluation of Montana's HIV Prevention Social Marketing Campaign: A Descriptive Study
… descriptive study was to evaluate Montana’s 2006 HIV Prevention Social Marketing Campaign in two intervention communities: Flathead and Silver-Bow Counties and one comparison community: Lewis and Clark County. The intervention began in March 2006, and data was collected in the intervention …
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Why People Fail to use Condoms for STD and HIV Prevention
… the AIDS pandemic. People know how to prevent HIV by using abstinence, monogamy and condom use. Despite this awareness, people still put themselves at risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Why? This thesis catalogues the various reasons why people fail to use condoms during …
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Organizational legitimacy of nonprofit service organizations engaged in HIV prevention among women
… service organizitions (NSO’s) which provide HIV education and support services for women. Processes of seeking organizational legitirnacy are identified and organizational relationships analyzed within the environmental networks of clientele and the interorganizational network. The study also …
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The Safer Sexual Communication Practices of Transgender Adults: Implications for HIV Prevention
HIV prevention efforts stress interpersonal communication skills and their protective benefits; however, research on sexual communication has lagged behind interventions and campaigns that emphasize communication. Communication-centered HIV prevention interventions are limited by our nascent …
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Biomedicalizing Risk: Technologies of HIV Prevention and the Moral Imperatives of Biological Citizenship
… self-test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States. Via a discursive analysis of literature, product packaging, and marketing and public health rhetoric surrounding the test (brand name: OraQuick in-home HIV test), I identify several points of contention that have arisen …
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An Assessment of the HIV Prevention Needs of Injection Drug Users in Montana
The purpose of this study was to assess HIV prevention needs of individuals living in Montana who use injection drugs (IDUs). Gaps between prevention needs and services were identified and recommendations for overcoming the barriers to accessing and implementing treatment needs and services were …
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An Assessment of the HIV Prevention Needs of Injection Drug Users in Montana
The purpose of this study was to assess HIV prevention needs of individuals living in Montana who use injection drugs (IDUs). Gaps between prevention needs and services were identified and recommendations for overcoming the barriers to accessing and implementing treatment needs and services were …
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Positive Peers: Exploring How and Why to Incorporate Peers Into HIV Prevention Services
… began encouraging and funding a new strategy in HIV prevention. Referred to as Prevention with Positives (PwP), this approach to HIV prevention focused efforts on intervention with individuals who were already HIV-infected. This study examines one particular modality for the delivery of these …
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Domestic Resource Mobilization as a Pathway to Decolonization of HIV prevention research in Kenya
<p dir="ltr">At least 68% of Kenya’s HIV response budget comes from Western donors. As external donors’ priorities shift, HIV prevention research funding is declining, making domestic resource mobilization (DRM) critical. DRM refers to the process by which a country generates and allocates its …
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Development of Closomer And MIBG based Nanoformulation: Application to HIV Prevention and Neuroblastoma Therapy
… of closomer based nanoformulation for the prevention of HIV/AIDS sexual transmission. Part #2 focuses on the development and characterization of a meta-iodobenzylguadinine (MIBG) based nanoformulation of etoposide (VP-16) intended for the treatment of neuroblastoma. This work is presented …
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The Social and Political Dimensions of the Ethics of PrEP for HIV Prevention Among MSM
… sex with men (MSM), the risks, treatment, and prevention of HIV are central and unavoidable aspects of their experiences of sex and romance. This constant vigilance around HIV complicates their lives in medical as well as interpersonal and socio-political ways. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) …
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Exposing the gaps: HIV prevention perspectives, use, and preferences among priority populations in Seattle, Washington
While the rate of new HIV diagnoses has decreased over the past decade in Seattle and King County, Washington, HIV incidence remains high among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM), transgender persons, and people who inject drugs (PWID). Biomedical HIV prevention, including …
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