HIV prevention outreach in black communities of three rural north Florida counties

    Authors

    E. J. Brown;J. S. Brown

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Public Health Nurs.

    Keywords

    HIV outreach; rural blacks; HIV prevention; black communities; HIV; AIDS; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Nursing

    Abstract

    Literature to guide HIV prevention outreach for southeastern rural blacks is limited despite the increasing prevalence of HIV infection in this population. Three men and one woman conducted HIV prevention outreach in three north Florida rural counties in teams of two. The workers received five days of training in additional homework assignments. The workers used HIV/AIDS outreach surveys to guide their 10- to 15-minute outreach visits. Five hundred seventy-four outreach contacts with blacks were made between January and June 2001 (329 in County 1, 176 in County 2, and 69 in County 3) with 347 women and 227 men. Eighty-four percent of the persons contacted accepted literature, 47.5% accepted male condoms, and 31.9% accepted female condoms. More women (99.4%) were knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS than men (92.5%), and they reported taking precautions against infection more often than men (98% vs. 90.3%). Many blacks in rural north Florida were receptive to an HIV prevention outreach program that provided information, literature, and condoms on the street and in homes. These findings suggest that HIV prevention outreach should be expanded to reach more rural blacks, who are increasingly at risk for HIV infection.

    Journal Title

    Public Health Nursing

    Volume

    10

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2003

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    204

    Last Page

    210

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000185989400010

    ISSN

    0737-1209

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