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Hampton, Bonita. "A Comparative Study of Risk Factors Associated with Exposure to HIV Among a Sample of African American Women," Department of American Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, May 1998.
The first goal of this study is to illuminate some factors that place African American women at risk for exposure to HIV and to suggest some possibilities for intervention. A second is to establish whether African American women with and without lifetime regular drug use differ in risk factors associated with transmission of HIV. The third is to confirm whether African American women who use drugs and participate in drug treatment programs differ from untreated women in risk factors associated with transmission of HIV infection. To broaden the frame of HIV and AIDS research, this dissertation integrates Black feminist methodology. As such, the research was designed to place the experiences of Black women at the center, inquiring into their lives through direct interviews, rather than stereotypical behavioral assumptions which, in fact, turn out to be inaccurate.
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