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HIV Prevention Plan Idea
Carry Anderson
PSY-352
October 7, 2018
Professor William Plath
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HIV Prevention Plan Idea
Having an HIV plan in place for an African Culture that is at greater risk of
developing HIV, due to an epidemic is essential. In more recent years there has been a
more recent rise of African American men, who are “coming-out” as homosexuals and HIV is a
real looming fear. For this reason, this paper will discuss how HIV threatens and effects
homosexual African American Men. Here in the United States, it is more common for someone
to be homosexual. This puts them at a greater risk for being exposed to HIV. For African
American Men in the U.S., are at a high risk with around 60% being HIV-seropositive (Maulsby,
et alt., 2014). Many times they are unaware that they are in fact infected. Per the CDC, African
American Men who engage in homosexual relations account for a third of all newly infected
HIV patients here in the U.S. alone (CDC, 2016). Many of the overall differences within the
transmit ion of HIV is not easily explained via promiscuous behavior, having no information
about their partner’s health or sexual identity, or through substance abuse. Among all of the
research, there seems to be a real lack of supporting information or much information in general,
on the idea that homosexual black men may in fact be more susceptible to being infected with
HIV. This may be due to biological factors, genetic factors, some sort of phenomena in science,
circumcision, knowledge of their partner’s sexual health, or having been incarcerated prior
(Maulsby, et alt, 2014). Quite often when males have intercourse with males, regardless of being
HIV positive or not, assume their partner’s clear of HIV infection. This is a very poor way to
determine if one’s partner is HIV infected or not. One explanation for the phenomena of African
American Men being infected more regularly with HIV, could be the possibility of the
affordability and availability of health care. Researchers have performed various developmental
and social inquiries into why this is, as well as deploying various plans in an effort to decrease
the infection cases of HIV in black communities to no avail (Williams, Wyatt, & Wingood,
HIV Prevention Plan Idea
Carry Anderson
PSY-352
October 7, 2018
Professor William Plath
, 2
HIV Prevention Plan Idea
Having an HIV plan in place for an African Culture that is at greater risk of
developing HIV, due to an epidemic is essential. In more recent years there has been a
more recent rise of African American men, who are “coming-out” as homosexuals and HIV is a
real looming fear. For this reason, this paper will discuss how HIV threatens and effects
homosexual African American Men. Here in the United States, it is more common for someone
to be homosexual. This puts them at a greater risk for being exposed to HIV. For African
American Men in the U.S., are at a high risk with around 60% being HIV-seropositive (Maulsby,
et alt., 2014). Many times they are unaware that they are in fact infected. Per the CDC, African
American Men who engage in homosexual relations account for a third of all newly infected
HIV patients here in the U.S. alone (CDC, 2016). Many of the overall differences within the
transmit ion of HIV is not easily explained via promiscuous behavior, having no information
about their partner’s health or sexual identity, or through substance abuse. Among all of the
research, there seems to be a real lack of supporting information or much information in general,
on the idea that homosexual black men may in fact be more susceptible to being infected with
HIV. This may be due to biological factors, genetic factors, some sort of phenomena in science,
circumcision, knowledge of their partner’s sexual health, or having been incarcerated prior
(Maulsby, et alt, 2014). Quite often when males have intercourse with males, regardless of being
HIV positive or not, assume their partner’s clear of HIV infection. This is a very poor way to
determine if one’s partner is HIV infected or not. One explanation for the phenomena of African
American Men being infected more regularly with HIV, could be the possibility of the
affordability and availability of health care. Researchers have performed various developmental
and social inquiries into why this is, as well as deploying various plans in an effort to decrease
the infection cases of HIV in black communities to no avail (Williams, Wyatt, & Wingood,
