Enhancing Cultural and Contextual Intervention Strategies to Reduce HIV/AIDS Among African Americans.

• Autores: Gail E. Wyatt
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 99, Nº. 11, 2009, págs. 1941-1945
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 communication patterns, and (4) a mistrust of "outsiders." I propose the Sexual Health Model as a conceptual framework for HIV prevention interventions because it incorporates established adaptive coping strategies into new HIV-related protective skills. The Sexual Health Model promotes interconnectedness, sexual ownership, and body awareness, 3 concepts that represent the context of the African American historical and cultural experience and that enhance rather than contradict future prevention efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]