Women at Risk

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. General Issues in the Prevention of AIDS in Women

   • Ann O’Leary, Loretta Sweet Jemmott

   Pages 1-12

3. Interactions among HIV, Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Socioeconomic Status, and Poverty in Women

   • Sevgi O. Aral, Judith N. Wasserheit

   Pages 13-41

4. Women-Centered Prevention Techniques and Technologies

   • Erica L. Gollub

   Pages 43-82

5. Childhood Sexual Abuse and AIDS

   • Beatriz Perez, Gail Kennedy, Mindy Thompson Fullilove

   Pages 83-101

6. Preventing AIDS in Female Adolescents

   • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Loretta Sweet Jemmott, John B. Jemmott III

   Pages 103-129

7. African American Women and HIV-Risk-Reduction Issues

   • Loretta Sweet Jemmott, Veronica Catan, Adeline Nyamathi, Joyce Anastasia

   Pages 131-157

8. Latinas and AIDS

   • M. Isabel Fernandez

   Pages 159-174

9. Drug-Using Women and HIV

   • Gloria Weissman, Vivian Brown

   Pages 175-193

10. Female Sex Workers

    • Judith Blackfield Cohen, Priscilla Alexander

    Pages 195-218

11. Women and AIDS in Developing Countries

    • Marcela Raffaelli, Jennifer Pranke

    Pages 219-236

12. Lesbian Women and HIV/AIDS

    • Kathleen M. Morrow

    Pages 237-256

13. Future Directions

    • Ann O’Leary, Loretta Sweet Jemmott

    Pages 257-259

14. Back Matter

    Pages 261-278

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AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death among women of childbearing age and is increasing by about 8% a year in this group. * And yet, our understanding of the impact of HIV and AIDS on women's lives remains fragmented and incomplete. After a decade of struggling with mounting surveys of risk behavior, clinical trials, and behavioral interventions that were based primarily on experience with gay communities in large cities and, subsequently, on the needs of injection drug users, we have not given programs for women the attention they require if they are to be meaningful, effective, and gender appropriate. This book will introduce the reader to the range of complex issues of HIV and AIDS in women's lives. Ann O'Leary and Loretta Sweet Jemmott have assembled an impres­ sive list of authors who have contributed chapters from different disciplinary viewpoints. The reader will find information on prevention programs that have been effective for adolescent girls, on culturally specific strategies for African American and Latina women, and on the multiple issues of sub­ stance use and HIV that need to be faced by any outreach and intervention programs for drug-using women.

• AIDS
• HIV
• HIV/AIDS
• Primary prevention
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• prevention

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Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

• Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, New Brunswick, USA

  Ann O’Leary

• School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  Loretta Sweet Jemmott

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