HIV/AIDS and Adolescents

This book addresses the relationship between high school students- HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs. Presenting an international cross-sectional study using a purposive sample of high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean) to assess HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age, religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the book shows how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS.

Prem Misir, PhD is Former Vice-Chancellor, The University of Fiji; Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Solomon Islands Campus and Professor and Head, School of Public Health, The University of the South Pacific. Professor Misir also was Dean, Centre for iTaukei Studies, The University of Fiji; Dean, Foundation Studies, The University of Fiji; and Dean, University-Wide Program, The University of Fiji. Professor Misir is the holder of PhD (University of Hull, England); MPH (University of Manchester, England); MPhil (University of Surrey, England); B.S.Sc. (Honours) (Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH, England); and Certificate, Harvard University - Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety. Professor Misir was Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies; Visiting Professor, Anton de Kom University ofSuriname; and Honorary Professor at the University of Central Lancashire in England. He was the former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana. In addition to journal articles, he is the author of 11 books, the most recent being: HIV/AIDS and Adolescents: South Pacific and Caribbean, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019; The Subaltern Indian Woman: Domination and Social Degradation, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; and HIV & AIDS: Knowledge and Stigma in Guyana, University of the West Indies Press, 2013.

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Systematic Review of the Literature.- Chapter 3 Methodology.- Chapter 4 HIV/AIDS Knowledge.- Chapter 5 HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Socio-demographics.- Chapter 6 Predictors of Knowledge & Stigma-related Attitudes/Perceptions.- Chapter 7 HIV/AIDS Stigma and Socio-demographics.- Chapter 8 Discussion and Implications.