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Ideological schisms about HIV/AIDS helping systems in the African American community, with an emphasis on women.
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PMID:  21082471     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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This article is an initial exploration about the impact of ideological beliefs on helping services in the African American community. Newly infected HIV/AIDS cases place African Americans at 45% of such new cases, with African American women becoming infected at a rate 18 times that of Whites. Yet, helping services that are organic to African American women should be stronger through a discussion of cultural beliefs held in the community, where the genesis of helping services exists. Values and beliefs should be at the center of community partnerships, public media strategies, generalist-practice curricula in macro-level systems, and creating more space for relationship dialogue between African American men and women, which includes gender and racial distortions. Given the exponentially high numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in the African American community, a more earnest examination of values and beliefs is warranted.
Authors:
Colita Nichols Fairfax
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of evidence-based social work     Volume:  7     ISSN:  1543-3722     ISO Abbreviation:  J Evid Based Soc Work     Publication Date:  2010 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-11-18     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101197676     Medline TA:  J Evid Based Soc Work     Country:  England    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  412-30     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
The Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University,700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504, USA. cnfairfax@nsu.edu
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