title: Understanding Culture and Its Influence on HIV/AIDS-Related Communication Among Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men.
abstract: Scholarly research and government surveillance reports demonstrate that African American and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) bear an inequitable burden of new HIV infections. Among the estimated 31,896 HIV infections attributed to male-to-male sexual contact in 2011, approximately 62% occurred in African American (38.2%) and Latino (23.5) MSM. Simultaneously, recent scholarship on minority MSM and HIV/AIDS reports a dearth of qualitative communication research that address this health issue. This manuscript reports a research study that seeks to fill this gap in health communication theory and praxis. Through in-depth interviews with 17 MSM of color, this article draws upon the culture-centered approach to demonstrate how cultural and contextual nuances, (in)access to structural resources, and participants' agentive capacity to act upon available knowledge/resources influences the ways they manage (the threat of) HIV/AIDS.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , University of South Florida.
authors.forename: Ambar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.affiliation: b Department of Communication , University of Memphis.
authors.forename: Patrick J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Dillon
authors.affiliation: c Department of Anthropology , University of South Florida.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Romero-Daza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D003142:Communication; D003469:Culture; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055815:Young Adult