scholarly journals Exploring Experiences and Perceptions of Older African American Males Aging With HIV in the Rural Southern United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Blake ◽  
Gloria A. Jones Taylor ◽  
Richard L. Sowell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Living With Hiv

The HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic in the United States remains a serious public health concern. Despite treatment and prevention efforts, approximately 50,000 new HIV cases are transmitted each year. Estimates indicate that 44% of all people diagnosed with HIV are living in the southern region of the United States. African Americans represent 13.2% of the United States population; however, 44% (19,540) of reported new HIV cases in 2014 were diagnosed within this ethnic group. The majority of cases were diagnosed in men (73%, 14,305). In the United States, it is estimated that 21% of adults living with HIV are 50 years or older. There exists limited data regarding how well African American men are aging with HIV disease. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of older African American men living with HIV in rural Georgia. Data were collected from 35 older African American men living with HIV using focus groups and face-to-face personal interviews. Qualitative content analysis revealed six overlapping themes: (1) Stigma; (2) Doing Fine, Most of the Time; (3) Coping With Age-Related Diseases and HIV; (4) Self-Care; (5) Family Support; and (6) Access to Resources. The findings from this study provide new insights into the lives of rural HIV-infected African American men, expands our understanding of how they manage the disease, and why many return to or remain in rural communities.

Men Walk in Parallel!

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
C. Kemal Nance
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Male Body ◽  
African Dance ◽  
Historical Representations

C. Kemal Nance reflects on the ways in which African American men utilize dance vocabularies in artistic and academic work. He reveals his findings through his own experiences as an African dance performer, as well as through a series of interviews with Baba Chuck Davis. Centering an analysis of gender and sexuality, Nance explores the scripted nature of these discourses while addressing the ideological implications of historical representations of the black male body, masculinity, and heteronormativity in the field of African dance in the United States.

Homelessness and HIV-Associated Risk Behavior Among African American Men Who Inject Drugs and Reside in the Urban South of the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (S2) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
David R. Holtgrave ◽  
Sara Head ◽  
Benjamin Hadsock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban South

scholarly journals Managing Hypertension in African American Men

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Elise Eubanks ◽  
Elisa Mone't Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nursing Graduate ◽  
College Of Nursing

Hypertension is the "silent killer" especially in African Americans in the United States specifically, African American men. Two Prairie Viw A&M University's College of Nursing graduate students implemented a project to educate African American men on the management of hypertension in Houston's 3rd Ward neighborhood where they feel most comfortable...the barbershop.

Mortality, Incarceration, and African American Disenfranchisement in the Contemporary United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cottrell ◽  
Michael C. Herron ◽  
Javier M. Rodriguez ◽  
Daniel A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Right

On account of poor living conditions, African Americans in the United States experience disproportionately high rates of mortality and incarceration compared with Whites. This has profoundly diminished the number of voting-eligible African Americans in the country, costing, as of 2010, approximately 3.9 million African American men and women the right to vote and amounting to a national African American disenfranchisement rate of 13.2%. Although many disenfranchised African Americans have been stripped of voting rights by laws targeting felons and ex-felons, the majority are literally “missing” from their communities due to premature death and incarceration. Leveraging variation in gender ratios across the United States, we show that missing African Americans are concentrated in the country’s Southeast and that African American disenfranchisement rates in some legislative districts lie between 20% and 40%. Despite the many successes of the Voting Rights Act and the civil rights movement, high levels of African American disenfranchisement remain a continuing feature of the American polity.

Abstract P312: Association Between Religious Attendance And Obesity In African American And Afro-Caribbean Men

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 141 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Barrington
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: The increasing prevalence of obesity continues to be a public health concern in the United States (US). Religiosity, commonly characterized as the frequency of ritualistic practice and attendance at places of worship has been found to provide favorable cardiovascular health impacts including lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels; however, studies on the effect of religiosity on obesity have been mixed. Furthermore, national surveys have shown obesity prevalence to differ by ethnicity; foreign-born blacks have lower rates of obesity compared to US-born blacks. Research on a potential ethnic interaction on the impact of religious attendance on obesity has also been limited. Hypothesis: It is hypothesized that the association between religious attendance and obesity in black Americans may differ by ethnicity. Methods: Multiple logistic regression models were used to examine the association between religious attendance and obesity for African American (N = 1208) and Afro-Caribbean men (N = 628), 18 years and older, in the National Survey of American Life (2001-2003). Odds ratios (OR) of the association between religious attendance and adult obesity were estimated after adjusting for age, socioeconomic measures, health and lifestyle measures within regression models stratified by ethnicity. Results: The overall prevalence of obesity was 29.15% among African American men and 19.74% among Afro-Caribbean men. The prevalence of obesity among those who attended church weekly or more than weekly was 33.48% for African American men and 13.36% for Afro-Caribbean men. Afro-Caribbean men who attended church weekly or more than weekly had 48% lower odds of obesity than men who attended church less than weekly; age-adjusted OR = 0.52; 95%CI: (0.28, 0.98). The protective association of church attendance remained for Afro-Caribbean men after additionally adjusting for socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors; adjusted OR = 0.40; 95%CI: (0.23, 0.67). No significant association between religious attendance and obesity was found for African American men. Conclusions: These findings suggest that religious attendance may be a protective factor for obesity among Afro-Caribbean men in the US. Since the prevalence of obesity among the foreign-born increases with length of US residency, religiosity may curb cardiovascular risk by lowering their body mass index trajectories across the life course.

328: Are the Partin Tables Accurate for African-American men in the United States?

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 111-111
Author(s):  
Elizabeth I. Heath ◽  
Michael W. Kattan ◽  
Isaac J. Powell ◽  
Wael Sakr ◽  
Timothy C. Brand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States

Do, say, learn: the functions of mothers’ speech to infants

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84
Author(s):  
Yana A. KUCHIRKO ◽  
Jacob L. SCHATZ ◽  
Katelyn K. FLETCHER ◽  
Catherine S. TAMIS-LEMONDA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
African American Mothers ◽  
Latina Mothers ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Book Sharing

AbstractWe examined the functions of mothers’ speech to infants during two tasks – book-sharing and bead-stringing – in low-income, ethnically diverse families. Mexican, Dominican, and African American mothers and their infants were video-recorded sharing wordless books and toy beads in the home when infants were aged 1;2 and 2;0. Mothers’ utterances were classified into seven categories (labels/descriptions, emotion/state language, attention directives, action directives, prohibitions, questions, and vocal elicitations) which were grouped into three broad language functions: referential language, regulatory language, and vocalization prompts. Mothers’ ethnicity, years of education, years living in the United States, and infant sex and age related to mothers’ language functions. Dominican and Mexican mothers were more likely to use regulatory language than were African American mothers, and African American mothers were more likely to use vocalization prompts than were Latina mothers. Vocalization prompts and referential language increased with mothers’ education and Latina mothers’ years living in the United States. Finally, mothers of boys used more regulatory language than did mothers of girls. Socio-cultural and developmental contexts shape the pragmatics of mothers’ language to infants.

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