Overview
- Studies high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean)
- Assesses HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age, religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status
- Shows how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Prem Misir is Pro Vice-Chancellor of Solomon Islands Campus, & Professor and Head of the School of Public Health at The University of the South Pacific (USP). He holds a Ph.D (University of Hull, England); MPH (University of Manchester, England); M.Phil (University of Surrey, England); B.S.Sc. (Honours) (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland); and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH, England). He is the former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana and was Executive Director of the Health Sector Development Unit (HSDU), Ministry of Health, Government of Guyana, where he managed the Global Fund. He also was the Head of the Press and Publicity Unit, Office of the President, Government of Guyana. Professor Misir was the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Fiji, a Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies, Anton de Kom University in Suriname, and received an honorary professorship from the University of Central Lancashire in England.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: HIV/AIDS and Adolescents
Book Subtitle: South Pacific and Caribbean
Authors: Prem Misir
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5989-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5988-0Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-5989-7Published: 22 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 233
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Care Management, Development and Health, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Health Economics, Behavioral Sciences