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Title: Self-Perceived Risk of HIV Among Women with Protective Orders Against Male Partners (Report)
Author : Health and Social Work
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 253 KB

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The rate of AIDS diagnoses for women has been increasing at a greater rate than for men (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2005). Specifically, from 2000 to 2004 the annual number of estimated AIDS diagnoses increased 10 percent among women and 7 percent among men. For women, a significant risk factor for HIV is sexual contact. Data from 44 areas with confidential name-based reporting showed that of the women who have been diagnosed with HIV through 2004, heterosexual contact was the source of 45 percent of infections, and for 45 percent of the infections no source was identified. Among women exposed to HIV through heterosexual contact, the estimated number of AIDS cases increased each year from 2000 through 2004 (CDC, 2005). Some research has shown that individuals' assessment of their risk of HIV is associated with their actual risk behaviors (Holtzman, Bland, Lansky, & Mack, 2001; Schroder, Hobfoll, Jackson, & Lavin, 2001; Steers, Elliott, Nemiro, Ditman, & Oskamp, 1996).The relationship between the two constructs is posited to be reciprocal. Specifically, there are two different hypothesized pathways for the association of perceived risk and actual risk behavior: (1) Individuals' perceptions of risk predict subsequent behavior, and (2) individuals' recent behavior predicts current perceptions of risk. The focus of this article is the examination of the association of the latter relationship. In a meta-analysis of perceived vulnerability to HIV and behavior, a weak, but statistically significant, relationship was found between individuals' recent behavior and their current perceptions of risk of HIV (Gerrard, Gibbons, & Bushman, 1996).