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Book Title: ERIC EJ763209: Linking ‘White Oppression’ and HIV/AIDS
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Book Category: Whites
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Language: english
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Post Date: 2025-04-14 10:02:55
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PDF Size: 0.08 MB
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Book Pages: 19
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ERIC EJ763209: Linking ‘White Oppression’ and HIV/AIDS
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This article presents the results of a pilot study on the use of conspiracy beliefs by American Indian (AI) men who have sex with men and their peers to explain the origins of HIV/AIDS. We found that one-third (N = 15) of the individuals surveyed believed that HIV/AIDS was intentionally created by “Whites, White Christians, or the Federal government” and purposely spread among minority populations. Conspiracy beliefs, we argue, should be looked at as a potential form of power recognition where AIs draw on their experiences of oppression to explain the presence of HIV/AIDS within their communities, at the same time that they draw on public health knowledge to explain how humans get HIV/AIDS. We advocate further research to better ascertain the effect that conspiracy beliefs have on HIV prevention and the treatment of individuals living with HIV/AIDS. (Contains 4 tables
- Creator/s: ERIC
- Date: 2007
- Year: 2007
- Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Whites, Etiology, Public Health, Males, Federal Government, American Indians, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Beliefs, Surveys, Minority Groups, Power Structure, Prevention, Gilley, Brian Joseph, Keesee, Marguerite
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