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- Title
Why Are Community Stakeholders Pressing for a Call to Action to Curtail the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the South?
- Authors
Wooten, Nikki R; Nallo, Baindu S; Julious, Carmen H; Weeks, Debra; Lee, Christopher; Singleton, Tyler M; Cornelius, Llewellyn J
- Abstract
As the South is disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS compared to other U.S. regions, Southerners are more likely to contract HIV and, given barriers to care, are at increased risk for morbidity and mortality. As part of a multistate interdisciplinary university–community HIV/AIDS partnership, community stakeholders described historical perspectives and traditions of the South contributing to disproportionate HIV/AIDS disease burden and unique regional challenges to HIV testing, linkage, and retention in HIV care. This article addressed the question, "Why are community stakeholder pressing for a call to action to curtail the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South?" to highlight social, cultural, and faith traditions of the South that may pose barriers to HIV testing and promote HIV-related stigma. A call to action is presented to the social work profession to implement a strengths-based, socioecological approach to HIV/AIDS service provision that integrates prevention, intervention, community engagement, social action, and policy advocacy to assist in alleviating the disproportionate disease burden among Southerners. Next steps for the authors' interdisciplinary university–community HIV/AIDS partnership to increase social awareness and health literacy in the South are also discussed.
- Subjects
HIV prevention; COMMUNITY health services; HEALTH care teams; HEALTH services accessibility; HEALTH status indicators; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; SOCIAL case work; SOCIAL stigma; STAKEHOLDER analysis
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 2018, Vol 43, Issue 4, p253
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/hly031