Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - Ethnology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Enhancing cultural and contextual intervention strategies to reduce HIV/AIDS among African Americans.

15 Sep 2009 I describe 4 protective strategies that African Americans employ that may challenge current HIV prevention efforts: (1) an adaptive duality that protects identity, (2) personal control influenced by external factors, (3) long-established indirect ... Read more...

Recommendations from a research consultation to address intervention strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention focused on African Americans.

15 Sep 2009 Despite substantial federal resources spent on HIV prevention, research, treatment, and care, as well as the availability and dissemination of evidence-based behavioral interventions, the disparate impact of HIV on African Americans continues. In ... Read more...

Sociocultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS among Middle Eastern immigrants in the US: bridging culture with HIV/AIDS programmes.

30 Aug 2009 The population of Middle Eastern immigrants in the US has been increasing dramatically over the past 30 years, growing from 200,000 in 1970 to 1.5 million in 2000. These immigrants and their descendants constitute an important new population of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - Ethnology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Enhancing cultural and contextual intervention strategies to reduce HIV/AIDS among African Americans. 15 Sep 2009
• Recommendations from a research consultation to address intervention strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention focused on African Americans. 15 Sep 2009
• Sociocultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS among Middle Eastern immigrants in the US: bridging culture with HIV/AIDS programmes. 30 Aug 2009
• Predictors of mortality among women with AIDS in Illinois, USA. 30 Aug 2009
• HIV/AIDS in Hawai'i: state of the state. 29 Jun 2009
• Adapting effective narrative-based HIV-prevention interventions to increase minorities' engagement in HIV/AIDS services. 30 Mar 2009
• Race-norming of neuropsychological tests. 17 Mar 2009
• Black youth's personal involvement in the HIV/AIDS issue: does the public service announcement still work? 27 Feb 2009
• Honor, home, heritage, and HIV. 15 Feb 2009
• Foot soldiers of global health: teaching and preaching AIDS science and modern medicine on the frontline. 30 Dec 2008
• Racial differences in HIV/AIDS discussion strategies and sexual risk behaviors among drug-abusing female criminal offenders. 29 Nov 2008
• AIDS stigma in health services in the Eastern Caribbean. 30 Sep 2008
• Childhood sexual abuse in black men who have sex with men: results from three qualitative studies. 29 Sep 2008
• Beyond stigma? Young children's responses to HIV and AIDS. 29 Sep 2008
• Addressing the need for access to culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS prevention for Latinos. 29 Sep 2008
• The Cedar Project: acknowledging the pain of our children. 25 Sep 2008
• Coded talk, scripted omissions: the micropolitics of AIDS talk in an affected community in South Africa. 30 Aug 2008
• Relationship of symptoms, perceived health, and stigma with quality of life among urban HIV-infected African American men. 30 Aug 2008
• ACOG Committee Opinion. Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and women of color. 30 Jul 2008
• The political context of AIDS-related stigma and knowledge in a South African township community. 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome'

Definition: An acquired defect of cellular immunity associated with infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a CD4-positive T-lymphocyte count under 200 cells/microliter or less than 14% of total lymphocytes, and increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and malignant neoplasms. Clinical manifestations also include emaciation (wasting) and dementia. These elements reflect criteria for AIDS as defined by the CDC in 1993.

Descriptor UI: D000163

Alternative terms: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Immunologic Deficiency Syndrome, Acquired; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome; Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome; Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndromes; Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome, Acquired; Immuno-Deficiency Syndromes, Acquired; Syndrome, Acquired Immuno-Deficiency; Syndromes, Acquired Immuno-Deficiency; Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Acquired; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes; Immunodeficiency Syndromes, Acquired; Syndrome, Acquired Immunodeficiency; Syndromes, Acquired Immunodeficiency; AIDS;

Related Mesh Headings: HIV Seropositivity; AIDS Serodiagnosis; AIDS Dementia Complex; HIV Seroprevalence; Lymphoma, AIDS-Related; AIDS Arteritis, Central Nervous System;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; transmission; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C02.782.815.616.400.040; C02.800.801.400.040; C02.839.040; C20.673.480.040;

History Note: 83

Technical Notes: caused by HIV; coord IM with HIV-1 or HIV-2 (IM) if pertinent; /epidemiol: consider also HIV SEROPREVALENCE; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS is available if particularly discussed: see note there; for lymphoma with AIDS, use LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED