Ross Michael W, Essien E James, Torres Isabel
WHO Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas, PO Box 20036, Houston, TX 77225, USA.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2006 Mar;41(3):342-4. doi: 10.1097/01.qai.0000209897.59384.52.
We examined beliefs about the origin of HIV as a genocidal conspiracy in men and women of four racial/ethnic groups in a street intercept sample in Houston, Texas. Groups sampled were African American, Latino, non-Hispanic white, and Asian. Highest levels of conspiracy theories were found in women, and in African American and Latino populations (over a quarter of African Americans and over a fifth of Latinos) with slightly lower rates in whites (a fifth) and Asians (less than one in ten). Reductions in condom use associated with such beliefs were however only apparent in African American men. Conspiracy beliefs were an independent predictor of reported condom use along with race/ethnicity, gender, education, and age group. Data suggest that genocidal conspiracy beliefs are relatively widespread in several racial/ethnic groups and that an understanding of the sources of these beliefs is important to determine their possible impact on HIV prevention and treatment behaviors.
我们在得克萨斯州休斯敦的一个街头拦截样本中，调查了四个种族/族裔群体的男性和女性对于艾滋病病毒起源的种族灭绝阴谋论观点。抽样群体包括非裔美国人、拉丁裔、非西班牙裔白人以及亚裔。阴谋论观点比例最高的是女性，以及非裔美国人和拉丁裔群体（超过四分之一的非裔美国人以及超过五分之一的拉丁裔），白人（五分之一）和亚裔（不到十分之一）的比例略低。然而，与这种观点相关的避孕套使用减少情况仅在非裔美国男性中明显。除了种族/族裔、性别、教育程度和年龄组外，阴谋论观点是报告的避孕套使用情况的一个独立预测因素。数据表明，种族灭绝阴谋论观点在几个种族/族裔群体中相对普遍，了解这些观点的来源对于确定它们对艾滋病病毒预防和治疗行为可能产生的影响非常重要。
