Volume 35, Numbers 1 and 2, March and September - Special Issue on
Women, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Sponsored by UNESCO, New Delhi.

"I Know I’m Not Alone": The Cultural Context of Spirituality and Religion Among African American Women Coping with HIV/AIDS
Bonita Hampton

The present paper deals with the lives of African American living with HIV/AIDS. It explores the social and historical context in which African American women use spirituality and religion as coping strategies to deal with clinical in face-to –face audio taped interviews with women from three agencies in New-York state that provide HIV/AIDS services to people with virus. It s part of ongoing research that I begin in 1992 to investigate various aspects surrounding the overwhelming number of African American women with HIV/AIDS.

Key Words: African American culture, coping strategies, religion, spirituality.

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