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On the Shelf and Seminal Cultural Competency and HIV Research & Reports Classic articles, journals, and research papers written about HIV/AIDS.

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The following resources are available from the AETC Capitol Region Telehealth Project's Knowledge Center as well as repository locations of our collaborative partners. Materials are listed with most recent items first.

On the Shelf

• HIV/AIDS and children in the English speaking Caribbean
  This groundbreaking book provides an overview and informed discussion of HIV/AIDS as it affects children and adolescents in Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, and The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. With contributions from noted HIV/AIDS experts in the region, it examines the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that impact HIV/AIDS prevention/service delivery issues for Caribbean youth.
  Source: PubMed 2012
  
• Improving Care of HIV-Positive Young Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men
  Date: 2011
  Source: AIDS Patient Care and STDs
• Cultural Competency and Its Role in Health Services
  Date: 1998
  Source: Cultural Competency in Health, Social and Human Services: Direction for the Twenty-First Century
• HIV/AIDS and Asian and Pacific Islander Women
  Date: 1997
  Source: The Gender politics of HIV/AIDS in Women: Perspectives on the Pandemic in the United States

Seminal Works

• As it is. Research finding on the knowledge, attitude, practice, and access to HIV and AIDS information and services amongst persons with disabilities
  Handicap International commissioned this study, conducted in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Thika to obtain scientific information concerning  knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS among persons with disabilities. The findings of this study will be used to guide the planning and implementation of HIV prevention and management programs for people with disabilities.
  Source: PubMed 2012
  
• Patient-centered culturally sensitive health care: Model testing and refinement.
  This article presents the results of an empirical test of a literature-based Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care Model. This model was developed to explain and improve health care for ethnically diverse patients seen in community-based primary care clinics.
  Source: PubMed May 2011
• Barriers to HIV/AIDS knowledge and prevention among deaf and hard of hearing people
  This study investigated knowledge about HIV/AIDS and barriers to HIV/AIDS education and prevention among deaf and hard of hearing people.
  Source: PubMed July 2005
  
• Perceptions of HIV/AIDS by deaf gay men
  Deaf gay men represent a subpopulation of the gay male community at particularly high risk for HIV/AIDS due to numerous barriers including language, stigma, and inequitable access to health services. Study participants  described living at the intersection of multiple communities--the deaf, gay, and hearing--each characterized by unique communication styles, cultural expectations, and a propensity to marginalize outsiders. Health care providers were perceived as lacking compassion and largely ignorant to the needs of deaf persons, in general, and deaf gay men, in particular. Printed HIV materials were considered culturally inappropriate, incomprehensible, and ineffective. These findings suggest an extraordinary risk for adverse mental and physical health outcomes if care is not appropriately designed for this vulnerable population.
  Source: PubMed July-August 2004
  
• HIV/AIDS Behind Bars: An Avenue for Culturally Sensitive Interventions 2004
  The prevalence of HIV infection and the incidence of AIDS are higher among prison inmates compared to the general population
• Reducing Health Disparities Through Culturally Sensitive Treatment for HIV+ Adults in Haiti
  Abstract outlining a comprehensive effort to culturally adapt a cognitive-behavioral stress management program for Haitian HIV+ individuals. The purpose of the program is to improve adherence to antiretroviral medication, reduce transmission to uninfected partners, and improve coping. Source: Pub Med: 2004
  
• Bridging language and cultural barriers between physicians and patients
  This study explored a group of primary care physicians' use of various methods to bridge language and cultural barriers between themselves and their patients and the physicians' perceptions of the availability and quality of these methods.
  Source: PubMed 1997
• A Model for Cultural Competency in the HIV Management of African American Patients 2003
  Articles examines the challenges to provide culturally appropriate care to black patients who are infected with HIV.
• The promulgation of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care
  Established in 2001, these standards provided a framework for the implementation of services and organizational structures to meet the needs of diverse patient populations.
• Alcohol and HIV/AIDS
  This Alcohol Alert briefly examines the changing patterns of HIV transmission in the United States; the role of alcohol in the transmission of HIV within, and potentially beyond, high-risk populations; the potential influence of alcohol abuse on the progression and treatment of HIV-related illness; and the benefits of making alcoholism treatment an integral part of HIV prevention programs