Home medication injection among Latina women in Los Angeles: Implications for health education and prevention

Bambuí Project: a qualitative approach to self-medication

“…In developed countries, culturally defined migrant communities have been the object of studies on at-home self-medication with injected medication, focusing on clashes between culturally rooted habits and legal and financial constraints on such practice, with the risk of AIDS transmission as the backdrop 28,29 . In less developed countries, quantitative and qualitative methods have been used to investigate how interactions between drugstore customers and sales attendants and owners can influence selfmedication 3,14 .…”

Longitudinal effects of an HIV testing and counseling programme for low‐income Latina women

“…Calvillo and Flaskerud 49 Flaskerud and Nyamathi 44 Calvillo and Flaskerud 49 Flaskerud and Nyamathi 44 Calvillo and Flaskerud 49 The data were collected from the focus group participants through focused interviews with an open response format. The interviews focused on the quantitative findings 54 ' 55 and a re-evaluation of the intervention protocol. The intervention protocol was presented in three categories: (1) the respondent's assessment of the cultural competence of the community health workers and the protocol (language, ethnicity, gender, knowledge and clarity of information provided), (2) women as health educators and health care providers in Latino families and (3) the CDC transmission categories.…”

Collaborative Inquiry With Low-Income Latina Women

“…Changes in AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among participants in the research program described here could be documented from the study results. 16,17,19 Los Angeles county epidemiologic evidence documented a decline in cases of HTV in Los Angeles from 1992 to 1996.35 This decline was attributed to a decrease in cases among white men who have sex with men and a plateauing of cases among Latinos (including Latina women) that had previously been rising steadily from 1988 to 1992. Of the community health workers trained for the project, two entered and completed community college programs in nursing, and three appear to be making careers as research assistants in community work.…”

“…A study was then instituted on this phenomenon with 216 women who were also involved in the larger project. 16 It was discovered that 94 households (43.5 percent) were involved in using injectable medications purchased over the counter in Mexico, the majority of which were antibiotics. In 45 households (20.8 percent), families were reusing the needles and syringes, and in 34 households (15.7 percent), they were sharing.…”