HIV/AIDS and Adolescents South Pacific and Caribbean /

• Main Author: Misir, Prem (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Health care management.; Health services administration.; Economic development.; Critical criminology.; Health economics.; Behavioral sciences.; Health Care Management.; Development and Health.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Health Economics.; Behavioral Sciences.
• Physical Description: XX, 233 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789811359897
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-5989-7

This book addresses the relationship between high school students' HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs. Presenting an international cross-sectional study using a purposive sample of high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean) to assess HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age, religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the book shows how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS.