Minority Health and Health Equity Archive

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Welcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.

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    "The Skill Is Using Your Big Head Over Your Little Head": What Black Heterosexual Men Say They Know, Want, and Need to Prevent HIV
    (2013) Bowleg, L.; Mingo, M.; Massie, J. S.
    Although the disproportionate toll of HIV/AIDS among Black heterosexuals, particularly in low-income U.S. urban areas is well documented, Black heterosexual men are rarely the explicit focus of HIV prevention messages, research, and interventions. We conducted 4 focus groups with 28 Black men, aged 19 to 51 years, who were enrolled in the workforce and fatherhood development program of a local community-based organization to examine (a) the priority and role of HIV/AIDS in their lives and (b) their HIV prevention needs. Although none articulated HIV as a top life priority, respondents nonetheless prioritized educating their children about HIV prevention and protecting their main partners from HIV if they had other sexual partners. Analyses demonstrated that participants said they wanted and needed: to learn how to talk to partners about HIV testing and use condoms when tempted not to do so, and more discussion-oriented educational opportunities to learn and exchange prevention strategies.
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    News Media & Communities of Color
    (2009) Crawford, Blake; Gomez, Miguel; Samplin-Salgado, Michelle
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    Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Black Women: Implications for Health Equity
    (2011) Sharpe, Tanya Telfair; Voûte, Caroline; Rose, Michelle A.; Cleveland, Janet; Dean, Hazel D.; Fenton, Kevin
    Abstract available at publisher's website.
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    Black Women Confront HIV Stigma, Health and Funding Disparities at USCA
    (2011) McCullom, Rod
    This year the U. S. Conference on AIDS (USCA), the largest HIV/AIDS gathering in the nation, targeted its offerings toward men who have sex with men. But during the meeting sponsored by the National Minority AIDS Council, many Black women--from prevention and policy experts to those living with HIV/AIDS--aggressively pursued programming and issues that focused on their demographic. “It’s time to mobilize around the lack of funding and resources targeting women living with HIV in the United States," said Amanda Lugg, director of advocacy and mobilization of the New York City-based African Services Committee. The USCA did “a...
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    Initiative takes on HIV and AIDS
    (2011) Hawkins, B. Denise
    A group of African-American newspaper publishers have enlisted the support of historically black colleges and churches to wage war against HIV/AIDS using their outlets to inform readers, advocate for prevention, and save lives. By next January, publishers of more than 50 black newspapers in the South say they plan to start a campaign that address the AIDS crisis and what their readers can do to protect themselves against the disease. The region these papers represent is where more than 41 percent of those living with AIDS in the United States reside and where the highest number of new AIDS cases…
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    HIV-Associated Anal Dysplasia: Experience from a Multiethnic-HIV Clinic in Hawaii
    (2011) Payam, Ahoora; Shiramizu, Bruce; Shikuma, Cecilia; Milne, Cris; Terada, Kevin; Kajioka, Eric; Ka'opua, Lana Sue; Cassel, Kevin; Chow, Dominic
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    The three leading causes of death in African Americans: barriers to reducing excess disparity and to improving health behaviors.
    (1999) Feldman, R H; Fulwood, R
    African Americans suffer disproportionately from several major health problems associated with high morbidity and mortality. The 1985 DHHS Secretary's Task Force Report on Blacks and Other Minorities identified six major disease categories of excess deaths for African Americans compared with whites by applying the lower death rate for whites to the American population. The report provided a stimulus for public and private action to begin to address the health disparities between minority and nonminority populations. This article examines three of the leading causes of death for African Americans and assesses the extent to which the health disparity between African Americans and whites has been reduced. The three leading causes of death for African American males are diseases of the heart, cancer, and HIV infection/AIDS. The conditions are the same for African American females except stroke replaces HIV infection. Three health outcomes measures are discussed: life expectancy, excess death rates, and years of potential life lost. A widening of the gap between the races was found for diseases of the heart and HIV infection for males and for cancer for females. An extensive list of barriers to reducing the disparity are presented from the scientific literature and strategies for reducing the three health problems are recommended.
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    Factors affecting African-American participation in AIDS research.
    (2000) Sengupta, S; Strauss, R P; DeVellis, R; Quinn, S C; DeVellis, B; Ware, W B
    Distrust about research institutions is a significant barrier to recruiting African Americans in AIDS clinical trials. Issues of distrust need to be acknowledged by researchers to develop better recruitment and retention strategies when conducting AIDS clinical trials in African-American communities.
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    AIDS in minority populations in the United States.
    (1987) Hopkins, D R
    Among ethnic minorities in the United States, blacks and Hispanics, who compose 12 percent and 7 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, constitute 24 percent and 14 percent of the cases of AIDS. Seventy-eight percent of all children with AIDS are black or Hispanic, as are 71 percent of all women with AIDS. In the black and Hispanic communities, intravenous (IV) drug abuse is associated with much of the AIDS transmission, and parenterally acquired infections are spread secondarily by sexual and perinatal transmission. Almost two-thirds of black and Hispanic persons with AIDS in the United States reside in New York, New Jersey, or Florida. Important differences in the understanding of AIDS and human immunodeficiency virus infection and control measures in minority communities must be considered in devising information and intervention programs for those communities. Programs intended specifically for minorities, especially greatly intensified prevention and treatment of IV drugs abuse, are needed to supplement programs aimed at the U.S. population in general. Combatting AIDS offers black and Hispanic populations an opportunity to greatly reduce IV drug abuse, other sexually transmitted diseases, and teenage pregnancy.