title: Developing culture-specific interventions for Latinas to reduce HIV high-risk behaviors.
abstract: Latina women are among the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population to become infected with HIV. Health care providers must use culture-specific HIV prevention strategies and must address cultural roles and values of the Latin community to empower Latinas to reduce high-risk behaviors. Some Latinas adhere to their cultural traditions that place the female subservient to the male in the sexual relationship. A review of the literature reveals that skills-building, a group participatory tool that engages the individual to examine high-risk behaviors and provides methods to make behavior changes, and nurse counseling, which focuses on an individual's specific risk behaviors, are more effective modes of reducing high-risk behaviors in women than an information-only intervention.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Worcester Graduate School of Nursing, USA.
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Corbo
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*