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Journal Article
Condoms and Consequences: HIV/AIDS Education and African American Women
1998
Overview
Low income African American mothers of elementary school children in Oakland, California, participated in six prevention training sessions that fused education about HIV/AIDS with other life-skills and resources. This exploratory intervention, known as the Healthy Mamas Project, was based on the Theory of Reasoned Action with inclusion of self-efficacy. Responses to a questionnaire at baseline and at 3-month follow up show that all women (N=15) entered the training program with, and sustained, a high level of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Based on self-reports of attitudes and behaviors at the 3-month follow-up, training affected only some women beneficially. Overall, 42% of the participants expressed increased trust in and resolve to use condoms to reduce the likelihood of acquiring HIV infection. Differences in demographic characteristics and sexual practices distinguished women who accepted the educational messages about condoms from participants who did not. The intervention did not sufficiently recognize or address the social contexts that informed the beliefs and behaviors of the women. In particular, women who were not beneficially influenced by the training prioritized short-term goals (such as establishing a sexual relationship, fulfilling emotional needs, providing for children) over long-term goals (such as avoiding HIV infection).
Publisher
Society for Applied Anthropology,Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subject
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
/ AIDS
/ Children
/ Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
/ Condoms
/ Diseases
/ Health
/ HIV
/ Human immunodeficiency virus
/ Men
/ Mothers
/ Oakland
/ Psychoeducational intervention
/ Risk
/ Traditional and modern medicine; public health
/ Traditional sciences and medicine
/ U.S.A
/ Women
