Culturally adapted HIV classes

Study: Culturally adapted HIV classes benefit teen girls
From Saundra Young
CNN
Sunday, July 11, 2004 Posted: 12:52 PM EDT (1652 GMT)

(CNN) -- Learning about HIV in a positive environment with their peers could be life-saving for sexually active African-American teenage girls who are at a high risk for the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study published in the upcoming Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study was released as the weeklong 15th International AIDS Conference got underway Sunday in Bangkok, Thailand.

"Interventions for African-American adolescent girls that are gender-tailored and culturally congruent can enhance HIV-preventive behaviors, skills and mediators and may reduce pregnancy and chlamydia infection," the study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, concluded.

For 2.5 years, beginning in December 1996, the researchers tested 522 African-American girls between the ages 14 to 18 who were sexually active.

According to the study, the teens were divided into two groups and attended a series of four classes that lasted four hours each.

One group of 251 girls learned about HIV, how to properly use a condom, how to negotiate the use of a condom with a sexual partner, what constitutes a healthy relationship and pride in their gender and ethnic background.

The remaining 271 girls spent the same amount of time learning about exercise and nutrition.

The researchers followed up with the teenagers after six months and a year. The girls in the HIV class reported that they were more likely to use a condom and less likely to have had a new sex partner in the past 30 days than the girls who learned about nutrition and exercise.

The study's lead author attributes the program's success to the fact that it was developed with the help of teenage girls in the community.

"They had ownership of this program" said Ralph J. DiClemente of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and Center for AIDS Research.

"This intervention had a motto -- be safe for yourself, for your family and your community. We wanted to instill a sense of pride in young folks," he said.

A recent study reported that HIV infection among African-American adolescent girls was significantly higher than their Caucasian and Hispanic peers, and exceeds that of white, Hispanic and black teenage males.




Is it me or is this study :screwy: ??

OK-- hear me out..

1/2 learned about HIV??????

1/2 Learned about exercise and nutrition????

Hmmmmm... Let me think ?????????????

:sadwavey: ... So sorry, 1/2 gets death and 1/2 gets a pat on the back... Is something wrong with this picture???
Sure, the study is to inform people about the HIV wrath of hell, but dont experiment with it.

:feedback:

Human guinea pigs. Excellent.

Addendum: One half of those lectured on nutrition who contracted HIV will be given the secret antidote...the other half will watch old Batwatch reruns.

i need to move to a new planet *shakes head*

that defies normal logic :screwy:

That is really sad...experimenting on teenage girls like that. Is the study worth it, really? :disappoin

F*cking idiots.

F*cking idiots.


who? the people doing the study, or the youth of our country?

Ill study on the girls, I dont mind, really I dont.

I hope I'm alive to see the day that human beings become their own downfall.

didn't it started already? We are already killing each other over nothing, and not just us, the earth.

didn't it started already? We are already killing each other over nothing, and not just us, the earth.
Well, yes. But I'm talking about when the consumation of this is complete. Ya know, when the final product of our ignorance is finally revealed? I wanna see the look on everyones face when they realize how fucked up many of them made things and how they have no one else to blame but themselves. And yes, I know, I'm just as much a contributor to the planet, but I try to take into account the repercussions of my actions before any are made in the first place.

Oh I get you know :thumbsup:


Yes were all fuck'd up! oh well, its not like I can do anything about it.

who? the people doing the study, or the youth of our country?
Study design, execution and drawn conclusions.

i know, i meant it with irony...

So the people that learned about how to properly reduce chances of AIDS had less chances to be at risk than the ones learning about something completely unrelated?
:screwy: I would like to smack the crap outta the person who conducted this research

That study is flawed in sooooooooo many ways. I really hope that my disgust from reading that is merely due to omitted informations on the part of the author.

What I would like to know is what the women will do, when they find out.

Be gentle...