AIDS and AdolescentsLorraine Sherr Aids and Adolescents provides insight into a wide range of adolescent issues. Much of the HIV epidemic response has been at the individual level in the hope that this narrow focus will provide the key to containment and resolution of the spread of the disease. In this text a series of contributions have been compiled to explore adolescent issues ranging from sexual behaviour, health education campaigns, to HIV prevention and HIV/AIDS care. Chapters provide an overview of adolescent problems, such as homelessness, pregnancy, and gender, and explore why these problems are so often overlooked. They examine facts and fictions associated with adolescent risk, challenging some of the basic current notions underpinning approaches to the subject. There are particular focused studies of Australian adolescents' beliefs about HIV and STDs and also the American adolescent's perceptions of drug injection. |
Contents
Epidemiology | 25 |
Young People Sexuality HIV and AIDS Education | 79 |
Adolescents and HIV Risk Due to Drug Injection or Sex with | 107 |
Adolescents and Emerging Sexuality | 133 |
Adaptation and Coping of HIV Infected Adolescents | 163 |
The Medical Management of AIDS in Adolescents | 177 |
Future Directions for Prevention of | 189 |
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Page 198 - DiClemente, RJ, Zorn, J., & Temoshok, L. (1986). Adolescents and AIDS: A survey of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about AIDS in San Francisco. American Journal of Public Health, 76, 1443-1445. DiClemente, RJ, Zorn, J., & Temoshok, L. (1987). The association of gender, ethnicity, and length of residence in the Bay area to adolescents' knowledge and attitudes about acquired deficiency syndrome.