A Youth Leader's Guide to Building Cultural Competence 

16. Culturelinc Corp., Hispanics and HIV: Strategies and Tactics for Education/Prevention (New York, 

NY: Culturelinc, no date) p. 31.  

17. de la Vega, Ernesto,  Considerations for Reaching the Latino Population With Sexuality and 

HIV/AIDS Information and Education,  SIECUS Report 18 (3) (Feb/March, 1990), p.3.  

18. Airhihenbuwa, Collins, et al.,  HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Among African Americans: A 

Focus on Culture.  AIDS Education and Prevention, 4 (3) (1992), p.269. 

19. Stephen B. Thomas and Sandra Crouse Quinn,  The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1932 to 1972: 

Implications for HIV Education and AIDS Risk Education Programs in the Black Community,  

American Journal of Public Health, 81 (November, 1991 ), pp. 1498 1505. 

20. AIDS Office, Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease Control, San Francisco City Clinic Special 

Programs for Youth and San Francisco Department of Welfare, The Young Men's Survey: Principal 

Findings and Results (San Francisco, CA: 1991). This study revealed that almost half of study 

participants ages 17 19 had participated in unprotected anal intercourse as compared to under a 

quarter of the 20 22 year olds and under a third of 23 25 year olds. In addition, just over 14 percent of 

young men between 17 and 22 years old were HIV positive, comparing to 10.4 percent of young men 

between 23 and 25 years old. 

21. AIDS Committee of Massachusetts, A Survey of AIDS Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior 

Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Greater Boston (Boston, MA: AIDS Committee of Massachusetts, 

1991). In this survey of 1,841 gay and bisexual men, four out of 10 men under 23 years of age 

reported at least one instance of anal intercourse without using a condom during the past six months.  

22. Kevin Cranston,  HIV Education for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth: Personal Risk, Personal 

Power, and the Community of Conscience,  Journal of Homosexuality 22 (1992): 247 259.  

23. Locke, pp. 23 24.  

24. Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud and Cecila E. Rush,  AIDS and Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices of 

Black Women,  Nursing Research 38 (4) (July/August 1989): 213.  

25. Culturelinc, p. 28 

26. Ibid.  

27. Carmen Medina,  Latino Culture and Sex Education,  SIECUS Report 15 (3) (1987): 3. 

28. Ibid.  

29. Culturelinc, p. 41.  

30. Airhihenbuwa et al., p. 270. 

31. de la Vega, pp. 7 8.  

32. Ibid., p. 2.