Most Recent Articles from Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Canadian aboriginal youth: social, interpersonal factors are key to sexual behavior 

  A variety of characteristics--mainly related to the social environment and interpersonal experiences--are associated with the sexual behavior of...

  09/01/09 by S. London · More from publication

• HIV testing for prisoners based on risk factors may underestimate prevalence of infection 

  Targeted HIV testing programs that rely on prison inmates' self-report of conventional HIV risk behaviors are likely to underestimate HIV...

  09/01/09 by J. Rosenberg · More from publication

• Mothers' Pap screening and STD history associated With daughters' uptake, completion of HPV vaccine 

  Mothers' attitudes toward prevention, and history of abnormal Pap test results or STDs, are strongly linked to whether their daughters receive the...

  09/01/09 by J. Thomas · More from publication

• In the UK, risk of severe maternal health problems is elevated for nonwhites 

  In the United Kingdom, 89 women of every 100,000 who gave birth in 2005-2006 experienced at least one of five serious pregnancy-related conditions....

  09/01/09 by D. Hollander · More from publication

• Adults who were abused as children may face elevated risk of STDs 

  Childhood abuse is linked to an increased risk of STD infection over time, according to findings from a prospective cohort study. (1) Participants...

  09/01/09 by S. Ramashwar · More from publication

• Unintended pregnancy linked to unhealthy maternal behaviors 

  Two-fifths of live births to Maryland women between 2001 and 2006 followed unintended pregnancies, and women whose pregnancies were unintended were...

  09/01/09 by D. Hollander · More from publication

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