TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blot, S.
AU  - Bauer, G.
AU  - Fraser, M.
AU  - Nleya, M.
AU  - Wadham, M.
PY  - 2017//
TI  - AIDS Service Organization Access Among African, Caribbean and Other Black Residents of an Average Canadian City
T2  - J Immigr Minor Health
JO  - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
SP  - 851
EP  - 860
VL  - 19
IS  - 4
KW  - African
KW  - Black people
KW  - Caribbean
KW  - Hiv/Aids
KW  - Health disparities
KW  - Health services research
KW  - Immigrant health
KW  - Minority health
AB  - Due to heightened vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities are priority groups for prevention and intervention services in Canada. However, it is not clear which factors may affect ACB communities' access to these services. We evaluated access to the local AIDS service organization (ASO) in Middlesex-London by using data from the Black, African and Caribbean Canadian Health Study. Modified Poisson regression was used to obtain prevalence risk ratios for factors associated with three measures of access: familiarity with the ASO, willingness to access, and realized access. In adjusted analyses, older ACB community members were more likely to be familiar with the ASO, willing to access it, and have actually gone there. Canadian-born participants were less likely to have been to the ASO than recent immigrants. These results have implications for reaching specific segments of ACB communities for HIV/AIDS-related services in Canada.
SN  - 1557-1912
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26895153
UR  - PM:26895153
N1  - PMID:26895153
ID  - Blot_etal2017
ER  -