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.

Professor Prem Misir is Pro Vice-Chancellor of Solomon Islands Campus, & Professor and Head of the School of Public Health at The University of the South Pacific (USP).  He holds a Ph.D (University of Hull, England); MPH (University of Manchester, England); M.Phil (University of Surrey, England); B.S.Sc. (Honours) (Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland); and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH, England). He is the former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana and was Executive Director of the Health Sector Development Unit (HSDU), Ministry of Health, Government of Guyana, where he managed the Global Fund. He also was the Head of the Press and Publicity Unit, Office of the President, Government of Guyana. Professor Misir was the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Fiji, a Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies, Anton de Kom University in Suriname, and received an honorary professorship from the University of Central Lancashire in England.