African-American Male Sexual Behavior and the Risk for HIV Infection

Social researchers and epidemiologists have been slow to address racial aspects of the AIDS epidemic. This lag has occurred in spite of the fact that African-Americans have been disproportionately affected by HIV. Few community-based interventions have been designed specifically for minority males. Those health educators who have attempted to respond to the growing public health problem of sexually transmitted AIDS among African-American males have had little or no socio-cultural information on which to develop their intervention models.