ABSTRACT
American (CDC, 1991). In addition, African-American women are nine times more likely to die from HIV infection than are white females (Department of Health and Human Services, 1992, as cited in O'Leary and Jemmott, 1995, p. 131). Equally, the children of African-American women are being adversely affected. Of the children with AIDS in the United States, 57 percent are African American and 23 percent are Hispanic, while these groups comprise 14 percent and 11 percent, respectively, of the population of children in the nation (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1995).
