“…Yet, little is known about the effects of religious factors on HIV-risk behaviors (Gillum & Holt, 2010). Moreover, existing studies in the area of HIV/AIDS and religiosity have primarily focused on African American HIV positive samples (Prado, Szapocznik, Maldonado-Molina, Schwartz, & Pantin, 2008;Scarinci, Griffin, Grogoriu, & Fitzpatrick, 2009).…”