Handbook of Psychology

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CHAPTER 10 AIDS/HIV MICHAEL P. CAREY AND PETER A. VANABLE 219 BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT HIV DISEASE 219 Epidemiology 219 Transmiss ...

220 AIDS/HIV epidemic began among MSM, it has spread to men and women regardless of sexual orientation. AIDS cases are dis- prop ...

Primary Prevention 221 at a total cost, it would also be necessary to add in the lost economic opportunities associated with you ...

222 AIDS/HIV identi“es •downstream,Ž • midstream,Ž and •upstreamŽ be- havioral approaches to prevention. Downstreamapproaches ar ...

Primary Prevention 223 counseling recommendations (Kamb et al., 1998). Both inter- ventions were implemented with adults during ...

224 AIDS/HIV signi“cantly over time, and ar gued that these results mark a •declining phaseŽ in the HIV epidemic among IDUs, at ...

Primary Prevention 225 whether sex education should occur in the school or in the home, and whether abstinence is the only appro ...

226 AIDS/HIV knowledge, and frequency of protected intercourse. Other studies have also provided evidence that cognitive-behavio ...

Primary Prevention 227 by including a health-promotion control group, and partially replicated the results. Taken together, “ndi ...

228 AIDS/HIV and to women living in 18 low-income housing devel- opments (Sikkema et al., 2000) have been reported. This model ...

Primary Prevention 229 HIV infections by 50% in the intervention group. Moreover, after adjusting for baseline risk factors, inc ...

230 AIDS/HIV programs targeted toward suspected high risk •groupsŽ of IDUs, adolescents, and gay men; and (c) intensive risk re- ...

Secondary Prevention 231 bene“ts from AZT proved to be elusive, in part because of the ability of HIV to develop resistance to i ...

232 AIDS/HIV treatment options (Low-Beer et al., 2000; Rabkin, Ferrando, Lin, Sewell, & McElhiney, 2000), HIV disease trigge ...

Secondary Prevention 233 Drawing on research suggesting the bene“ts of positive psychological adjustment to HIV disease, a numbe ...

234 AIDS/HIV sometimes required to take as many as 20 pills per day. Al- though efforts are underway to develop simpli“ed treatm ...

Secondary Prevention 235 Finally, aspects of the treatment itself, including patients• knowledge about treatments and their expe ...

236 AIDS/HIV Erringer, & Edlin, 2000), and patients recruited through HIV clinics (De Rosa & Marks, 1998) indicate that ...

Future Directions 237 tion with other STDs). Although physicians are likely to spend considerable time discussing the importance ...