The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth
Subtitle: Implications for the Spread of HIV/Aids
Publisher: Haworth Press; Haworth Hispanic/Latino Press
Published: April 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780789008855
Subjects: Ethnic studies; HIV / AIDS; Psychology; Developmental - Adolescent; Social Science; Youth; Sociology; Sexual behavior; AIDS & HIV; Human Sexuality; Costa Rica; Minority Studies - General
First sentence: Latin America has a significantly lower HIV-infection rate than Africa or Asia.
Description: "The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth provides students and HIV specialists with shocking information on Latin American countries, such as Honduras, which contains more than fifty percent of the AIDS cases in Central America, 20% of whom are fifteen to twenty-four years old.

Through your knowledge of the situation, you can work to prevent tragedy among young people in Latin America, who are among the least informed group regarding HIV prevention and the most likely to engage in practices that place them at high risk of contracting HIV."--BOOK JACKET.