In this enlightening book, you ll explore the life struggles and
adaptations leading up to and following HIV infection in young
Americans. The cases presented in Youths Living with HIV envisage a
variety of experiences of youths living with HIV and AIDS,
including individuals of different races, of each gender, and of
different sexual preferences. This discussion of the private
"troubles" and experiences of youths helps you understand and
identify dependent and larger public issues surrounding HIV
infection and AIDS, and demonstrates the need for comprehensive and
targeted intervention and preventive measures.This book is the
result of the first federally funded multi-site study to research,
develop, and provide HIV education and prevention specifically to
young Americans. Detailed narrative descriptions were collected by
ethnographers of the Joven Project, which started in October 1992,
and explored and documented the lives of youths living with HIV and
AIDS over a two-year period. This ethnographic exploratory study
was one component of a larger National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA) supported Secondary AIDS Education and Prevention Program.
Youths Living with HIV reconstructs the past and present struggles
that young people living with HIV and AIDS face(d), employing
qualitative field interviews. Larger and interrelated
developmental, social, cultural, and political factors are also
illustrated and discussed. As you read through the chapters, you ll
gain insight into: youth development--coming of age, sexual
development, and risk-taking behaviors gay development and
activity--coming out, establishing relationships, and
power-imbalanced/cross-generational relationships self-harmful
behaviors--drug use, sex, and poverty notification and reaction to
infection impression management and disclosure of infection status
adaptation to HIV status and necessary life changes sexual activity
and relationships after infection social worlds and support
networks/pathological or destructive networks availability and
success of existing AIDS-related services future orientation and
life expectations Whether you re a counselor, teacher, policymaker,
physician, mental health professional, social worker, or advocate
who specializes in or focus on youth development, gay youths, field
methodology (qualitative research), public health, women s health,
drug use, sex work, and/or AIDS, you will find Youths Living with
HIV essential to understanding and helping this affected
population.
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