AIDS-related risk perceptions among low-income ethnic minority urban women in an AIDS epicenter: community-based survey. (Research Report)

AUTHORS: S.C. Kalichman, T.L. Hunter and J.A. Kelly. (Institution not furnished).

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, held November 8-12, 1992, in Washington, D.C., "Sixty percent of persons with heterosexually contracted HIV infection are women (CDC, 1991), and 52% of women with AIDS in the United States are African-American. In the present study, women in a high-AIDS incidence urban center were surveyed regarding AIDS-related risk …