“We as Black Men Have to Encourage Each other:” Facilitators and Barriers Associated with HIV Testing among Black/African American Men in Rural Florida

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 487-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Murray ◽  
Lauren Toledo ◽  
Emma (EJ) Brown ◽  
Madeline Y. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Black Men ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Black African ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Rural Florida

scholarly journals Prejudicial beliefs and COVID-19 disruptions among sexual minority men living with and not living with HIV in a high SARS-CoV-2 prevalence area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth C Kalichman ◽  
Renee El-Krab ◽  
Bruno Shkembi ◽  
Moira O Kalichman ◽  
Lisa A Eaton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Black African ◽  
Sexual Minority Men ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Personal Action ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
Living With Hiv

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound health and social impacts. COVID-19 also affords opportunities to study the emergence of prejudice as a factor in taking protective actions. This study investigated the association of COVID-19 concerns, prejudicial beliefs, and personal actions that involve life disruptions among people not living with and people living with HIV. 338 Black/African American men not living with HIV who reported male sex partners and 148 Black/African American men living with HIV who reported male sex partners completed a confidential survey that measured COVID-19 concern, COVID-19 prejudice, and personal action and institutionally imposed COVID-19 disruptions. Participants reported having experienced multiple social and healthcare disruptions stemming from COVID-19, including reductions in social contacts, canceling medical appointments, and inability to access medications. Mediation analyses demonstrated that COVID-19 concerns and COVID-19 prejudice were associated with personal action disruptions, indicating that these social processes are important for understanding how individuals modified their lives in response to COVID-19. It is imperative that public health efforts combat COVID-19 prejudice as these beliefs undermine investments in developing healthcare infrastructure to address COVID-19 prevention.

scholarly journals Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (12) ◽  
pp. 4071-4111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcella Alsan ◽  
Owen Garrick ◽  
Grant Graziani
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Cardiovascular Mortality ◽  
Black Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
White Male ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Stage Design

We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black men to black or non-black male medical doctors. We use a two-stage design, measuring decisions before (pre-consultation) and after (post-consultation) meeting their assigned doctor. Subjects select a similar number of preventives in the pre-consultation stage, but are much more likely to select every preventive service, particularly invasive services, once meeting with a racially concordant doctor. Our findings suggest black doctors could reduce the black-white male gap in cardiovascular mortality by 19 percent. (JEL I12, I14, C93)

scholarly journals Recruiting Black/African American men for research on prostate cancer prevention

Cancer ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 1017-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Diane Woods ◽  
Susanne B. Montgomery ◽  
R. Patti Herring
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Black African ◽  
Prostate Cancer Prevention

scholarly journals Lessons Learned From Use of Social Network Strategy in HIV Testing Programs Targeting African American Men Who Have Sex With Men

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
pp. 1851-1856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna H. McCree ◽  
Gregorio Millett ◽  
Chanza Baytop ◽  
Scott Royal ◽  
Jonathan Ellen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Sex With Men

Influences on HIV testing among young African-American men who have sex with men and the moderating effect of the geographic setting

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Mashburn ◽  
John L. Peterson ◽  
Roger Bakeman ◽  
Robin L. Miller ◽  
Leslie F. Clark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Geographic Setting ◽  
Sex With Men

The Challenge to White Manhood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Meyer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
African American Men ◽  
White Men ◽  
Traditionally White ◽  
Workplace Equity ◽  
White Manhood ◽  
Gain Access

This chapter considers how the increase in numbers of African American men at the workplace brought differing and contentious visions of manhood to the automotive factory. White men, who had long dominated the better jobs, divided into two groups: those who strove for the respectability of high-paid union jobs and those who resented others, fearing the loss of their exclusive white privileges. When black men fought for workplace equity, the more conservative whites conducted racial hate strikes to protect traditionally “white” jobs. In reaction, African American workers conducted what might best be labeled “pride strikes” to gain access to better jobs and later to improve the inequitable situation of black women in the automobile factories. These workplace struggles involved robust clashes over differing visions of manhood.

scholarly journals HIV Testing Rates, Testing Locations, and Healthcare Utilization among Urban African-American Men

2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Petroll ◽  
Wayne DiFranceisco ◽  
Timothy L. McAuliffe ◽  
David W. Seal ◽  
Jeffrey A. Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Healthcare Utilization ◽  
African American Men

Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 68S-72S ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Metzl
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Men ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Barriers To Health

This commentary describes ways in which notions of African American men’s “health” attained by individual choice—embedded in the notion that African American men should visit doctors or engage in fewer risky behaviors—are at times in tension with larger cultural, economic, and political notions of “health.” It argues that efforts to improve the health of Black men must take structural factors into account, and failure to do so circumvents even well-intentioned efforts to improve health outcomes. Using historical examples, the article shows how attempts to identify and intervene into what are now called social determinants of health are strengthened by addressing on-the-ground diagnostic disparities and also the structural violence and racism embedded within definitions of illness and health. And, that, as such, we need to monitor structural barriers to health that exist in institutions ostensibly set up to incarcerate or contain Black men and in institutions ostensibly set up to help them.

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