Open AccessHIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk Behaviors and Beliefs Among Black West Indian Immigrants and US-Born Blacks
Author(s) -
Susie Hoffman,
Sharlene Beckford Jarrett,
Elizabeth A. Kelvin,
Scyatta A. Wallace,
Michael Augenbraun,
Matthew Hogben,
Nicole Liddon,
William M. McCormack,
Steve Rubin,
Tracey E. Wilson
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2006.106443
Subject(s) - demography , condom , medicine , immigration , odds ratio , confidence interval , psychological intervention , black women , sexually transmitted disease , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , gynecology , family medicine , gender studies , geography , syphilis , sociology , archaeology , pathology , psychiatry
We compared Black West Indian immigrants' and US-born Blacks' sexual and drug-use risk behaviors and their beliefs related to using condoms and informing partners of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to identify possible differences in risk.