HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean

by Dicks; Barbara A

• ISBN13: 9780789014429
• ISBN10: 0789014424
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-01-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Examine the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that affect HIV/AIDS prevention/service delivery issues for Caribbean youth! 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. HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean breaks the silence on this subject that has existed throughout the Caribbean--second only to Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of the number of people infected with the disease--by focusing attention on the issues, needs, perspectives, policies, and research that impact those affected by the epidemic in that region. This unique book gives special attention to the distinctive differences among Caribbean countries with varying customs based on colonial influences including language, culture, traditions, and religion. User-friendly tables and figures make the statistical information easy to understand. HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean discusses a diversity of topics, including: psycho-cultural issues and adolescents the impact of dance hall music on HIV and adolescents school programs evaluation of residential placements for children with AIDS sexual risk-taking behaviors of Jamaican street boys the inaugural lecture on AIDS at the University of the West Indies . . . and much more. Everyone whose professional life brings them into contact with this population, including social workers, psychologists, counselors, clinicians, nurses and other health care professionals, as well as educators and their students will find HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean a very useful resource for understanding the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS virus on children and adolescents in that part of the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface	xv
C. James Hospedales
Introduction	1	(2)
Barbara A. Dicks
HIV/AIDS-Challenging a Monster	3	(20)
Brendan Bain
HIV/AIDS in Caribbean Children and Adolescents	23	(18)
Noreen Jack
Social and Demographic Factors Affecting the HIV Infected Children in Barbados	41	(12)
M. Anne St. John
Alok Kumar
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Practice Among the HIV Infected Women with Repeated Childbirths in Barbados	53	(12)
Alok Kumar
M. Anne St. John
Psychocultural Factors Associated with HIV Infection Among Trinidad and Tobago Adolescents	65	(18)
Dexter R. Voisin
Maria Dillon-Remy
Residential Care for Children with HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago	83	(22)
Innette Marcia Cambridge
Developing a Theory-Based, Culturally Sensitive Intervention for Adolescents: The Antigua School Project	105	(22)
G. Aisha Gilliam
Agatha Eke
Felicity Aymer
Cheryl O'Neil
Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior and HIV Knowledge of Kingston's Street Boys	127	(22)
Tiffany Robinson
Trevor Thompson
Brendan Bain
Popular Music and Sexual Behavior Among Female Adolescents in Jamaica-A Case:Control Study	149	(12)
Desmalee Holder-Nevins
Brendan Bain
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
School-Based HIV/AIDS Education in Grenada	161	(6)
Roger L. Radix
Holger Hansen
Index	167