Published in AIDS care
Many over-the-counter microbicidal contraceptive methods reduce the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases. This pilot project compared the use of female controlled barrier methods in an extremely high-risk population of low-income drug abusing women following an intervention designed to promote HIV risk reduction and barrier use. An HIV t...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
According to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), global sex discrimination is responsible for the death of millions of women and children and increases the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It is noted that poor maternal health care and abortion services contribute to the high maternal and neonatal mortality rate. In view of this, Josef D...
Published in AIDS weekly
The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation (FXB), New York, New York, will develop community-based programs in rural Rajasthan, India, to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), with the support of a US$300,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the WHO and Joint UN Programme for HIV/AIDS,...
Published in Sexually transmitted diseases
Three observational cohorts that correspond to prevention message received were assembled, and consisted of female sexually transmitted disease clinic patients who were counseled about male condoms, female condoms, or a hierarchy message. The hierarchy message promoted male and female condoms, the diaphragm and cervical cap, spermicides, and withdr...
Published in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Inadequate contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents continues to be a major public health problem in the United States. For young people who will not remain sexually abstinent, families, health care providers, schools, and other influential societal institutions should promote the correct and continued use of condoms as essential protect...
Published in International journal of STD & AIDS
China's dual employment system plays a crucial role in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV-related safe and unsafe sexual practices among young Chinese people. Social and psychological determinants of safe and unsafe sexual practices for HIV infection among young people in Sichuan, China were examined. Our findings indicate that changes ...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
Two randomised controlled trials of sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment for the prevention of HIV-1 Infection, in Mwanza, Tanzania, and Rakai, Uganda, unexpectedly produced contrasting results. A decrease in population HIV-1 incidence was associated with improved STD case management in Mwanza, but was not associated with STD mass treatment...
Published in Contraceptive technology update
In the US, legislation has been introduced in Congress for increased funding for research and development of microbicides, which protect against HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Vaginal microbicides act by creating a barrier between the pathogen and the vagina, thus blocking infection, killing or immobilizing pathogens, and preventing a virus...
Published in Studies in family planning
An intervention developed to teach young men in the urban slums of Lucknow, India, about sexually transmitted diseases is described in detail. This community-based intervention was designed to impart core educational messages and to address preexisting ideas about sexual health and STD-prevention practices among participants. Indicators of knowledg...
Published in Studies in family planning
In the wake of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, considerable activity has occurred both in national policymaking for reproductive health and in research on the implementation of the Cairo Program of Action. This report considers how effectively a key component of the Cairo agenda--integration of the manageme...
