Children with HIV/AIDS and their families: a successful social work intervention based on the culturally specific health care model.

Health care utilization and community support are of utmost importance in minimizing the sociomedical problems of people with HIV/AIDS. This article describes a health clinic in Belle Glade, Florida, that effectively uses the Culturally Specific Health Care Model defined by the author in a previous article. The current article explains the process used to assess the immediate needs of children with HIV/AIDS and their families. It also explores some of the personal and social determinants that prevented the families from pursuing medical treatment at a community migrant health center after pediatricians had diagnosed the children as having HIV/AIDS.