Women and AIDS

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Epidemiology, Manifestations, and Treatment of HIV Infection in Women

   • Dawn K. Smith, Janet S. Moore

   Pages 1-32

3. Psychosocial Stress and Adaptation Processes for Women Coping with HIV/AIDS

   • Sharon Rae Jenkins, Helen L. Coons

   Pages 33-86

4. Intervening with Adolescent Girls Living with HIV

   • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Debra A. Murphy, Sutherland Miller

   Pages 87-108

5. Drug-Using Women and HIV

   • Gloria Weissman, Vivian Brown

   Pages 109-121

6. “Selective Kin”

   • Claude Ann Mellins, Anke A. Ehrhardt, Lucile Newman, Michael Conard

   Pages 123-149

7. Clinical and Psychosocial Issues of Women with HIV/AIDS

   • Stacy N. Broun

   Pages 151-166

8. Women’s Reproductive Decisions in the Context of HIV Infection

   • John B. Jemmott III, Suzanne Miller

   Pages 167-184

9. The Design, Participants, and Selected Early Findings of the HIV Epidemiology Research (HER) Study

   • Dawn K. Smith, Janet S. Moore, Dora Warren, Liza Solomon, Paula Schuman, Michael Stein et al.

   Pages 185-205

10. For Whose Benefit? Women and AIDS Public Policy

    • Kathleen A. Ethier, Jeannette R. Ickovics, Judith Rodin

    Pages 207-228

11. Back Matter

    Pages 229-248

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Although women were understudied in the early years of the epidemic, research and practice devoted to understanding and ameliorating the effects of the AIDS epidemic have begun in recent years. Women and AIDS is the first comprehensive exploration of the medical and psychosocial concerns and issues surrounding women living with HIV/AIDS. Contributors address the biomedical aspects of the disease, stress and coping factors, reproductive and childcare issues, access to care, needs of special populations such as drug-using women and adolescents, and policy recommendations. Researchers and students in psychology, public health, medicine, nursing, sociology, women's studies, and social work will appreciate this reference.

• AIDS
• Epidemiology
• HIV
• HIV infection
• HIV/AIDS
• Public Health
• Stress
• infection

• Rutgers University, New Brunswick

  Ann O’Leary

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

  Loretta Sweet Jemmott

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