Woman to Woman: Coming Together for Positive Change—Using Empowerment and Popular Education to Prevent HIV in Women

Romero, Lisa; Wallerstein, Nina; Lucero, Julie; Fredine, Heidi; Keefe, Joanna; O'Connell, Joanne Curry

doi:10.1521/aeap.2006.18.5.390

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“…3 However there is limited literature on how best to promote secondary prevention among young HIV-positive women. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] While there have been no published secondary prevention interventions solely targeting young HIV-positive women to date, there are known social, relational, and personal factors that have the ability to act as a facilitators or barriers to HIV prevention efforts. Common social and psychological challenges such as poverty, limited access to care, gender roles, cultural norms, and limited perceived control over sexual relationships not only impact the daily lives of young, HIVpositive women in the United States but they also are known to decrease their involvement in secondary prevention efforts.…”

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“…Common social and psychological challenges such as poverty, limited access to care, gender roles, cultural norms, and limited perceived control over sexual relationships not only impact the daily lives of young, HIVpositive women in the United States but they also are known to decrease their involvement in secondary prevention efforts. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] For example if violence, victimization, and poor mental health, which have been found to be pervasive among young HIV-positive youth, 10,11 are left untreated or unacknowledged, then risk factors, such as substance abuse, unsafe sexual activity, and nonadherence can increase. Likewise, relationships both sexual and nonsexual, influence the health and well-being of young HIV-positive women.…”

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What HIV-Positive Young Women Want from Behavioral Interventions: A Qualitative Approach

Hosek

Lemos²,

Interventions³

2012

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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Young women living with HIV in the United States face many social and psychological challenges, including involvement in health care and secondary prevention efforts. The factors that put these young women at risk for HIV acquisition initially, such as poverty, gender roles, cultural norms, and limited perceived control over sexual relationships, continue to place them at risk for both adverse mental and physical health outcomes that impact their daily lives and secondary prevention efforts. This study utilized focus groups with young HIV-positive women in order to better understand their perceived problems and pressures and to inform a developmentally appropriate secondary prevention intervention for young HIV-positive women that could be implemented in clinical care settings. Focus groups with young HIV-positive women were convened in three U.S. cities: Baltimore, Chicago, and Tampa. A total of 17 young, HIV-positive women, age range 17-24 (mean age = 21), participated in the focus groups. This article describes the psychological and social challenges these young women face as well as their suggestions regarding secondary HIV prevention intervention components.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What HIV-Positive Young Women Want from Behavioral Interventions: A Qualitative Approach

Hosek

Lemos²,

Interventions³

2012

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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“…These constraints are of particular concern among more socioeconomically vulnerable women, since the literature has suggested that such women are particularly vulnerable to gender imbalance and injustices (Romero et al, 2006).…”

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Prevention Of Hiv/Aids And Other Stis In Women In The Context Of Relationships

Patrão¹

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Women's anatomy and physiology place them at a higher risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) compared to men. In addition, certain cultural and social issues increase women's vulnerability to STIs. This descriptive literature review analyzed the different problems comprising relationship contexts as factors involved in the promotion of sexual health and the prevention of STIs in women. Data were obtained from classic authors who reported on how gender roles and imbalances in male-female relationships interfere with the prevention of STIs in women. For this, a systematic search was made of databases included in the Biblioteca Científica Online (B-on). Based on the selected articles evaluated, relationship-associated factors such as gender power imbalance, negative attitudes regarding condom use, and poverty and financial inequalities, as well as inadequate communication between partners were found to place women at risk of acquiring STIs. Since factors within relationships may play a significant role in STI prevention in various ways, it is relevant to take relationship characteristics into consideration when designing interventions aimed at promoting sexual health and preventing HIV/AIDS and other STIs in women. STI prevention programs should target both sexes and should focus strongly on increasing women's capacity to negotiate and communicate with their partners.

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“…This approach is based on the premise that participation by community members will encourage them to "own" local problems so that they can foster local solutions [78]. For HIV prevention, empowerment may take the form of economic opportunities to reduce women's dependence, preventive measures that remain under women's control, and political and social progress to give women a voice [82].…”

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Using Participatory Research to Work With Women from Ethnic Minorities at Risk for HIV Living In Industrialized Countries

Beaulieu¹

2016

J HIV Clin Sci Res

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the utility of participatory approaches for working with ethnic minority women at risk of contracting HIV living in industrialized countries. The literature suggests that these women's sexual risk behaviors should be analyzed taking into account in the social context that reduces their power to negotiate condom use. In this paper, we argue that because participatory approaches promote the empowerment of vulnerable populations, they offer a promising alternative for HIV prevention in women from ethnic minorities. Hence, interventions targeting these women in high income countries should aim to help them gain control over their relationships, lessen their dependence on men, and enable them to negotiate condom use.

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Woman to Woman: Coming Together for Positive Change—Using Empowerment and Popular Education to Prevent HIV in Women

Cited by 63 publications

References 17 publications

What HIV-Positive Young Women Want from Behavioral Interventions: A Qualitative Approach

What HIV-Positive Young Women Want from Behavioral Interventions: A Qualitative Approach

Prevention Of Hiv/Aids And Other Stis In Women In The Context Of Relationships

Using Participatory Research to Work With Women from Ethnic Minorities at Risk for HIV Living In Industrialized Countries

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