HIV among African American Men

Annotated Bibliography: HIV among African American Men
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Annotated Bibliography: HIV among African American Men
Duncan, D. T., Hickson, D. A., Goedel, W. C., Callander, D., Brooks, B., Chen, Y. T., ... & Schneider, J. A. (2019). The social context of HIV prevention and care among black men who have sex with men in three US cities: the neighborhoods and networks (N2) cohort study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(11), 1922. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111922
* The authors link the untamed behavior of same-sex relationships to black men’s socioeconomic and behavioral status, unlike the claims accounting for racial disparity.
* The racial disparity concerning the spread of HIV in the United States has primarily been linked to African American men who have sex with other men (MSM).
* The study aimed to look at the prevalence of HIV prevention and care behavior among racially segregated men.
* The study concluded that network characteristics that influence HIV-related behavior, such as beliefs, behavior, attitudes, and practices, deem black men a non-reference group. This means that African Americans form these unlikely neighborhoods with HIV-prevalence behaviors.
Fauci, A. S., Redfield, R. R., Sigounas, G., Weahkee, M. D., & Giroir, B. P. (2019). Ending the HIV epidemic: a plan for the United States. Jama, 321(9), 844-845. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.1343
* The authors focus on President Trump’s 2019 initiative to curtail the spread of HIV in America. With the prevalent number high among African American men, the authors propose several actions that could lessen the severity of the pandemic.
* According to this meta-analysis, the US Department of Health and Human Services was committed to an initiative to curb or reduce the number of affected African Americans by approximately 75%.
* The factors that increased HIV infection among the black community included racial healthcare disparity, poor diagnosis, and lack of early testing to make people aware.
* In order to address the problem, 4-pillar strategic initiatives are proposed: treat early to suppress the infection, early diagnose the disease, prevent at-risk individuals using PrEP, and rapid detection and prevention.
Laurencin, C. T., Murdock, C. J., Laurencin, L., & Christensen, D. M. (2018). HIV/AIDS and the African-American community 2018: a decade call to action. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 5(3), 449-458. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs40615-018-0491-0
* The study concluded that more than 50% of individuals...