Open AccessConspiracy Beliefs Are Not Necessarily a Barrier to Engagement in HIV Care Among Urban, Low-Income People of Color Living with HIV
Author(s) -
Jessica Jaiswal,
Stuart N. Singer,
M. Griffin Tomas,
Helen Maria Lekas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2197-3792
pISSN - 2196-8837
DOI - 10.1007/s40615-018-0466-1
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , context (archaeology) , health care , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychology , medicine , social psychology , nursing , political science , family medicine , paleontology , law , biology
HIV-related "conspiracy beliefs" include ideas about the genocidal origin of HIV to target minority people, and the notion that a cure for HIV is being deliberately withheld. Previous literature suggests that these beliefs may negatively affect engagement in HIV care and ART adherence, but little is known about how people who are disengaged from care may think about these ideas.