The Partnership Framework agreement between the United States Government and the Government of Nigeria in 2010 commits Nigeria to provide at least 50% of its HIV/AIDS funding by 2015. This study is aimed at identifying possible policy directions that the National Agency for the …
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Africa has been subject to Western misrepresentations since the earliest ventures of Europeans into the continent. The colonial clichés of Africa as the “Dark continent” and its people as lazy, licentious savages incapable of progress have been established to justify Western exp…
Objective: To provide eye care services to the clients of the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, many of whom are orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers living with HIV/AIDS and are thus at risk for developing severe eye infirmities. Method: Patient health histories were …
Background. The overall objective of this thesis was to evaluate the growth pattern and identify risk factors for growth failure among untreated HIV-infected Zimbabwean children followed from birth to 24 months of age, and to evaluate the association between early infant feeding…
The purpose of this study was to explore Connecticut professional Social Workers' (i.e., Clinical Social Workers and School Social Workers) and Counselors' (i.e., Mental Health Counselors and School Counselors) attitudes toward persons with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom…
This study examined, in a sample of 110 Latino gay and bisexual men, the characteristics of the social networks that provide them with information and advice about HIV/AIDS, networks' influence on unprotected sexual intercourse, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associati…
Entertainment-education (E-E), defined as “the intentional placement of educational content in entertaining messages” to attempt individual and social change, has received attention as a new effective tool of social change by not only communication scholars but also media campai…
This dissertation is an analysis of the political economy of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. This dissertation traces Nigerian democratic imaginaries and shows their intertwined connections to national and international AIDS policies, constructions of rights, and the production of therapeu…
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) pose a threat to the health and well-being of populations worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa has been particularly hard hit by the AIDS pandemic and poses many challenges to AIDS prevention prog…
This dissertation portrays transformations in the social experience of contemporary Ethiopian-Israelis, and represents what is at stake for them in particular social and political encounters. Significant among these have been regular contestations with the religious, medical, an…
This dissertation serves two distinct purposes. First, it fills a void in the study of the Jola people of southwestern Senegal by providing the first comprehensive ethnomedical analysis of a Jola subgroup. Second, it examines the full range of circumstances that render young Jol…
This dissertation research was motivated by a reversal in previously declining prime age adult mortality (PAM) rates in sub-Saharan Africa, a reversal brought about by the unabated AIDS epidemic in the region. As the epidemic continues to evolve within the region, there is a nee…
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial and cultural variables affecting adolescents living with parent(s) infected with the AIDS virus in selected states (Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, & Rivers) of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. This study compares the ex…
This dissertation aims to quantify the effect of the burden of a disease on economic performance in a cross-section of countries and its main goal is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not …
Background . Human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) infection is a major public health problem, with sub-Saharan African being the hardest of the regions of the world. Malawi's adult HIV prevalence is estimated at about 12%. Despite the fact that religion is central in the social l…
A cross sectional study compared the coping styles of 60 African American men and women to 101 White males and females. This study was done to examine what specific adaptive and also maladaptive coping styles are used by HIV-positive African Americans compared to Whites. The goa…
Two essays in this dissertation make a contribution to monitoring the HIV/AIDS epidemic and two focus on the behavioral dynamics that feed it. Following advances in medical technology, HIV testing is now often included in community-based surveys and that raised expectations for …
The HIV/AIDS disease in Senegal is characterized by a stable national prevalence rate around 1% since 1990, its concentration among vulnerable sub-groups and in certain geographic areas, and its essentially heterosexual mode of transmission. However, explanatory studies of risky…
Beginning in the mid-1990s considerable numbers of Africans have emigrated to the United States (US) as refugees, students, employees, visitors and relatives of US citizens or legal permanent residents. Minnesota is a common resettlement location for Africans, in particular Soma…