HIV/AIDS and Adolescents: South Pacific and Caribbean

Misir, Prem

This book addresses the relationship between high school students’ HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs.

Presenting an international cross-sectional study using a purposive sample of high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean) to assess HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age, religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the book shows how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2019-06-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811359880

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-5989-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 233