HIV Prevention With Latinos

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Kurt C. Organista

First ever compilation on the topic of HIV prevention with U.S. Latinos
19 chapters provide unprecedented depth on subgroups and situations unique to the Latino experience
Presents a structural-environmental model of HIV risk and prevention
Written by leading authorities on theory, research, and practice in preventing HIV with diverse Latino populations and communities

HIV Prevention With Latinos

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Kurt C. Organista

Description

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Latinos now comprise 16% of the general population as they continue to be one of the fastest-growing populations in the United States. However, according to recent CDC data, Latinos also account for a disproportionately high number of total new AIDS cases. Rates of AIDS among U.S. Latinos are second only to African Americans, and about 3.5-times higher than for non-Hispanic Whites. Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS increases with ethnic and racial minority status that is so often conflated with socioeconomic status. Additional factors, such as gender, sexual orientation, and stigma, also increase vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and require us to think comprehensively about the unique structural-environmental, social and cultural factors that frame risk for HIV for U.S. Latinos.

This book, written by leading authorities on theory, research, and practice in preventing HIV with diverse Latino populations and communities, responds to the diminishing returns of the behavioral model of HIV risk by deconstructing the many social ecological contexts of risk within the Latino experience. Each of the chapters explores the most innovative thinking and original research on the prevention of HIV for a comprehensive span of subgroups and situations, including: preventing HIV in LGBT Latinos through community involvement and AIDS activism; in migrant laborers by scaling up community and cultural resources; in adolescent Latinas by facilitating communication with their mothers about sex; by decreasing the racism, homophobia, and poverty often experienced by Latino men who have sex with men; in transgender Latinas by decreasing familial, peer, and social rejection, and by providing structures of care at local, state, and national levels; and in Latinas by improving their economic autonomy as well as improving gender-equity ideologies among men.

This is a timely and urgently needed effort by the best researchers and interventionists in the field today. Latino-serving agencies and professionals, as well as the growing number of Latino-focused HIV prevention researchers, graduate students, and faculty, will find this an invaluable resource, reference, and guide.

HIV Prevention With Latinos

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Kurt C. Organista

Foreword
Sandra R. Hernandez

Introduction
Kurt C. Organista

1. The Urgent Need for Structural Environmental Models of HIV Risk and Prevention in US Latino Populations: The Case of Migrant Day Laborers
Kurt C. Organista, Paula Worby, Jim Quesada, Alex Kral, Rafael Diaz, Torsten Neilands, and Sonya Arreola

2. Enhancing Peer Norms, Self-Efficacy, Self Esteem, and Social Support for Safe Sex in Naturalistic Environments: The Role of Community Involvement in Latino Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities
Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Lisa M. Kuhns, and Haiyan Li

3. Sexual Culture, Structure, and Change: A Transnational Framework for Studies of Latino Migration and HIV
Héctor Carrillo

4. Love, Sex and Power Revisited: The Integration of a Gendered Context in HIV Prevention among Latinas
Monica D. Ulibarri, Anita Raj, and Hortensia Amaro

5. Demonstrated Effectiveness and Potential of Community-Based Participatory Research for Preventing HIV in Latino Populations
Scott Rhodes

6. Mexico-US Migration, Social Exclusion, and HIV risk: Multi-sectoral Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Infection
Jennifer S. Hirsch and Emily Vasquez

7. Inequality, Discrimination and HIV Risk: A Review of Research on Latino Gay Men
Rafael M. Díaz, Jorge Sánchez, and Kurt Schroeder

8. Homophobia, Racism, Financial Hardship and AIDS: Unpacking the Effects of Social Discrimination on the Sexual Risk for HIV among Latino Gay Men
George Ayala

9. Contextual Influences of Sexual Risk among Latino MSM
Maria Cecilia Zea, Carol A. Reisen, Fernanda T. Bianchi, and Paul J. Poppen

10. Clean Sweeps and Social Control in Latino Bisexual Male Sex Markets in New York City
Edgar Rivera Colón, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, and Diana Hernández

11. Latina Transgender Women: The Social Context of HIV Risk and Responsive Multi-level Prevention Capacity Building
Frank Galvan and Joanne Keatley

12. HIV Risk and Prevention for Latinos in Jails and Prisons
Megan Comfort, Carmen Albizu-García, Timoteo Rodriguez, and Carlos Molina III

13. Puerto Rican Heterosexual Serodiscordant Couples: Cultural Challenges for Healthy Dyads
Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera and Nelson Varas-Díaz

14. HIV/STI Risk among Latino Migrant Men in New Receiving Communities: A Case Study of Post-disaster New Orleans
Patricia Kissinger and Michele G. Shedlin

15. Reducing HIV Sexual Risk for Latino Adolescents: An Ecodevelopmental Perspective
Antonia M. Villarruel, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, and Jose Bauermeister

16. Improving Latina Intergenerational Family-Based Communication to Decrease HIV and Other Sexual Risks
Britt Rios-Ellis

17. The Landscape of Latina HIV Prevention Interventions and their Implementation: Cultural Sensitivity in Community Based Organizations
Miriam Y. Vega and Lina Cherfas

18. Interventions to Prevent HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases among Latino Migrants
Thomas M. Painter, Kurt C. Organista, Scott D. Rhodes, and Fernando M. Sañudo

19. HIV Prevention Interventions with Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users
Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Luz Marilis López, and Lena Lundgre

Index

HIV Prevention With Latinos

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Kurt C. Organista

Author Information

Kurt C. Organista, PhD, is Professor at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.

Contributors:

Carmen Albizu-Garcia
Department of Health Services Administration
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Hortensia Amaro
Bouvé College of Health Sciences and
Institute on Urban Health Research
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

Sonya G. Arreola
Urban Health Program
Research Triangle Institute, International
San Francisco, California

George Ayala
Global Forum on MSM &HIV (MSMGF)
Oakland, California

Jose A. Bauermeister
Health Behavior & Health Education
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Fernanda T. Bianchi
Department of Psychology
George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

Héctor Carrillo
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Lina Cherfas
Latino Commission on AIDS
New York, New York

Megan Comfort
Urban Health Program
RTI International
San Francisco, California

Lisa de Saxe Zerden
School of Social Work
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Rafael M. Díaz
Cesar E. Chávez Institute
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

Frank Galvan
Bienestar Human Services, Inc.
Los Angeles, California

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Silver School of Social Work
New York University
New York, New York

Diane Hernandez
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University
New York, New York

Jennifer S. Hirsch
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University
New York, New York

JoAnne Keatley
Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Patricia Kissinger
Department of Epidemiology
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Alex H. Kral
Research Triangle Institute, International
San Francisco, California

Lisa M. Kuhns
Chidlren's Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

Haiyan Li
Chidlren's Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

Lena Lundgren
Center for Addictions Research and Services
Boston, Massachusetts

Luz Marillis Lopez
School of Social Work
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Carlos Molina III
Political Science and Legal Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Miguel Muñoz-Laboy
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University
New York, New York

Torsten B. Neilands
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Kurt C. Organista
School of Social Welfare
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Thomas M. Painter
National Center for HIV/AIDS
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia

Paul J. Poppen
Department of Psychology
George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

James Quesada
Department of Anthropology
California State University San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Anita Raj
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California

Jesus Ramirez-Valles
UIC School of Public Health
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Carol A. Reisen
Department of Psychology
George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

Scott D. Rhodes
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Britt Rios-Ellis
National Council of La Raza/California State University
Long Beach, Center for Latino Community Health
Long Beach, California

Edgar Rivera-Colon
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, New York

Timoteo Rodriguez
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera
Criminal Justice Department
University of Puerto Rico at Carolina
Carolina, Puerto Rico

Jorge Sánchez
Cesar E. Chávez Institute
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

Fernando M. Sañudo
Health Promotion Center
Vista Community Clinic
Vista, California

Kurt Schroeder.
Cesar E. Chávez Institute
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

Michele G. Shedlin
College of Nursing
New York University
New York, New York

Monica D. Ulibarri
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California

Nelson Varas-Díaz
Center for the Study of Social Differences and
Health Graduate School of Social Work
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Emily E. Vasquez
Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, New York

Miriam Y. Vega
Latino Commission on AIDS
New York, New York

Antonia M. Villarruel
School of Nursing
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Paula Worby
Multicultural Institute
Berkeley, California

Maria Cecilia Zea
Department of Psychology
George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

HIV Prevention With Latinos

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Kurt C. Organista

Reviews and Awards

"The number of Hispanics living in the US recently reached 50 million, making them the largest minority. This is also a population where the HIV/AIDS problem is growing and for which a comprehensive approach is direly needed. This book addresses the prevention of this disease from a medical, cultural, gender, and community perspective, which makes it unique and extraordinarily useful." -- Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health

"The sub rosa and stigmatized status of HIV and AIDS in U.S. Latino communities warrants much greater attention in American health and social services research. This book is a vital step in moving Latino HIV research to international visibility. The contents provide a rich compendium of knowledge and insights for academics, policymakers, and program developers. The chapters reflect experienced and authoritative authorships, and the volume responds to a void of pragmatic information and provides a scholarly foundation for a higher level of research intensity and analysis that is badly needed." -- William A. Vega, PhD, Provost Professor, University of Southern California

HIV Prevention With Latinos

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Kurt C. Organista

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HIV and AIDS in Latinos

By Kurt C. Organista 30 years into the epidemic I remain struck by is how HIV continues to exploit our country's entrenched social, cultural, and economic cleavages ' almost to the point of appearing to be a homophobic, racist, sexist, and transphobic virus! Latinos now rank second to African Americans in their disproportionately high rates of AIDS cases: 50% & 20%, respectively, despite only composing 13% & 15% of the US population. Consider for example that 75% of AIDS cases in the US are among men who have sex with men (MSM), and the same is true within US Latino population.

Posted on July 23, 2012

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