Accessible Healthcare for Black Women in MA

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCESSIBILITY

OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR HIV AND AIDS

A Case Study on the Health Care Situation of the African American Women

in Boston , Massachusetts

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2

CHAPTER ONE : INTRODUCTION 3

Background of the Study 3

Objectives and Research Questions 6

CHAPTER TWO : LITERATURE REVIEW 8

Introduction 8

HIV and AIDS as a Global Epidemic 9

The Extent of HIV and AIDS in the United States 10

HIV /AIDS and Racial

/Ethnic Disparities 12

The Impact of HIV /AIDS Epidemic to Women 16

Women 's Vulnerability to HIV /AIDS 18

The Crisis of the Minorities 20

Addressing the Disparities 23

Accessibility of Health Care 26

Summary 30

CHAPTER THREE : METHODOLOGY 33

Introduction 33

Case Study 34

The Case 35

The Sample 35

Demography 36

Geo-Mapping 37

In-Depth Interview 37

Focus Groups .39

Cultural Consensus Survey . 39

Data Analysis . 40

Conclusion . 41

BIBLIOGRAPHY 43

CHAPTER ONE : INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

In more than two decades , sexual health issues have gained a lot of attention in the international community since the discovery of the HIV and AIDS . Such discovery rang an alarm and called for a more critical regard for sexual health due to the fact that HIV /AIDS is highly perilous to health and there has been no known absolute cure for it yet except for prevention

Aside from lack of absolute treatment , another alarming truth about HIV /AIDS is its modes of transmission to other individuals...