HIV/AIDS and Adolescents : South Pacific and Caribbean / by Prem Misir

By:

Misir, Prem [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Springer eBooks Business and ManagementPublisher: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019Description: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 233 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color)ISBN:

9789811359897

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Additional physical formats: 9789811359880 | Erscheint auch als: 978-981-13-5988-0 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:

362.10681 23

LOC classification:

RA971.3-971.32

DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-5989-7Online resources:

Summary: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Systematic Review of the Literature -- Chapter 3 Methodology -- Chapter 4 HIV/AIDS Knowledge -- Chapter 5 HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Socio-demographics -- Chapter 6 Predictors of Knowledge & Stigma-related Attitudes/Perceptions -- Chapter 7 HIV/AIDS Stigma and Socio-demographics -- Chapter 8 Discussion and ImplicationsSummary: This book addresses the relationship between high school students’ HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs. Presenting an international cross-sectional study using a purposive sample of high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean) to assess HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age, religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the book shows how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDSPPN: PPN: 1666730807Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-BUM | ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXBM

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