Dillard-Smith C; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12; 10: 370 (abstract no. PD0659).
California Prostitutes Education Project, Oakland.
OBJECTIVES: Preliminary focused group discussions with high-risk heterosexual African American women and their male sexual partners to determine social barriers to safer sex and other STD/HIV risk reduction behaviors. Study sought to determine whether or not the prevalent view that high-risk African American women's "fear of violent repercussions from their male sexual partners" is a significant social barrier to sustainable risk reduction behaviors. METHODS: FGDs (N = 10) were held with high-risk (IVDU/sex worker) African American women and their male partners. Subjects (N = 100) were selected from outreach and support group contacts of CAL-PEP's Women and Infant Demonstration Project and their sexual partners in Oakland, California. Our FGD interview schedule included basic KABP questions and questions regarding safer sex negotiation practices between couples. Separate FGDs were held for women and men. RESULTS: FGD results indicated that fear of violent reprisal was not a salient variable in African American women's ability to negotiate safer sex practices with their male partners. Rather, both the men and women believed that the men did not perceive themselves to be at risk. But those men who were most knowledgeable about their personal risk were willing to negotiate safer sex practices. DISCUSSION: Efforts to provide outreach services to male partners of high risk African American women is indicated, and thus a re-thinking of models targeting high-risk heterosexual women without targeting services to their male partners.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- African Americans
- California
- Emotions
- Female
- Focus Groups
- HIV
- HIV Infections
- Humans
- Infant
- Interpersonal Relations
- Male
- Safe Sex
- Sexual Partners
- prevention & control
Other ID:
UI: 102211013
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