Family Planning Perspectives articles from January 2000

Family Planning Perspectives archives from January 2000

Is Sex Better After Hysterectomy?(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Maryland women who underwent hysterectomy in 1992 and 1993 reported subsequent improvements in their sex lives.[1] Among 1,101 women in a statewide survey, 77% were sexually active two years after their surgery, compared with 70% before; the...

The Medicine Goes Down.(HIV and adolescents)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... HIV-infected adolescents' and young adults' compliance with complex regimens of antiretroviral drugs can be quite high, according to results of a survey of 31 HIV-positive 13-24-year-olds.[1] In all, 61% said they had taken their drugs more...

Jailed Youths Have HIV Smarts.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Young people in correctional facilities have grown more knowledgeable about HIV, but nonwhite youths have a weaker grasp than whites on how the virus is transmitted.[1] Using identical questionnaires, researchers surveyed similar groups of...

UK Druggists on Emergency Pills.(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Three-quarters of British pharmacists surveyed in 1998 said that they would provide emergency contraception if it became available over the counter, but half of the 1,165 respondents did not feel competent to prescribe the method, and nine in...

Health Woes for Smokers' Babies.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Infants whose mothers smoked 15 or more cigarettes a day while pregnant have an elevated risk of being hospitalized by eight months of age, according to a study of 1,974 babies born in a Danish university hospital in 1991-1992.[1] Seventy...

Contraception of the Cognoscente.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Female physicians are more likely than U.S. women in general to practice contraception and less likely to use a permanent method, according to a nationwide survey of women doctors conducted in 1993-1994.[1] Of the 1,625 respondents who were...

Gaps in Family Planning Training.(physicians)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Residents in family practice programs in Maryland often lack hands-on experience in providing effective contraceptive methods or abortion; doctors training to become obstetrician-gynecologists have more clinical experience, but considerable...

Don't Know Much About History.(medical history)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... More than half of providers taking part in a multisite study of health care-seeking behavior among people at risk for gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) do not routinely take a sexual history from their patients.[1] Of the...

In Brief.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... * Implanon, a contraceptive implant that has effectively prevented pregnancy for three years in clinical trials, became available in Britain late in 1999. The progesterone-containing device, which is the size of a matchstick and costs 90...

The Impact of Mississippi's Mandatory Delay Law on the Timing of Abortion.
January 1, 2000... The 1992 Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey let stand a Pennsylvania statute mandating that women wait at least 24 hours after they receive state-provided information on abortion before they can...

Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: Levels and Trends in Developed Countries.
January 1, 2000... Studies of teenage childbearing in developed countries showed differences in levels, as well as wide variation in trends, during the 1970s.[1] At that time, the adolescent birthrate in the United States was among the highest; it was lowest in...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Adolescents in Developed Countries.
January 1, 2000... Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are recognized as a major public health problem in most of the industrialized world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the mid-1990s, 30 million curable sexually transmitted infections...

Older, but Not Wiser: How Men Get Information About AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases After High School.
January 1, 2000... Throughout the last decade, widespread concern about high rates of childbearing and sexually transmitted disease (STD) transmission among adolescents led to changes in sex education programs and, subsequently, adolescents' risk behaviors. As of...

Partner Effects on a Woman's Intention to Conceive: `Not with This Partner'.
January 1, 2000... In recent years, data suggesting that 49-57% of pregnancies to American women are mistimed or unwanted at conception have focused increased attention on the concept of pregnancy intendedness.[1] This statistic implies that contraception may not...

Degree of Certainty About Plans to Have Children Strongly Predicts Whether Individuals Will Do So.
January 1, 2000... Individuals' intentions to have a child consistently predict whether they eventually do so. According to an analysis of data from two rounds of the National Survey of Families and Households,[1] the associations between respondents' intentions...

Women Exposed to Childhood Abuse Have Elevated Odds of Unintended First Pregnancy as Adults.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Some 58-67% of women who were exposed to sexual abuse or to frequent psychological or physical abuse as children have an unintended first pregnancy during adulthood, compared with 37-41% of their peers who experienced no such abuse. Similarly,...

Surprisingly Low Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates Found Among Drug Users.
January 1, 2000... The prevalence rates of chlamydia (3%), gonorrhea (0.4%) and HIV (6%) infection are moderate among drug users at a disease prevention and needle-exchange program in Canada, although clients report high rates of risky behaviors.[1] The...

Many Medicaid Recipients in Managed Care Plans Do Not Take Full Advantage of Available Prenatal Benefits.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Many low-income women do not seek timely or adequate prenatal care, even when their health plan provides services covered by Medicaid. Half of Medicaid recipients who were enrolled in a managed care program in Tennessee and who were pregnant or...

Social Factors Play Major Role in Making Young People Sexual Risk-Takers.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... High school students who use drugs and alcohol are more likely than those who do not to engage in activities that put them at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. Male students are more likely than females to...

Entry into Prenatal Care And Breastfeeding Initiation Have Increased in 13 States.
January 1, 2000... Of women in 13 states who had a live birth in 1997,17-31% had entered prenatal care after their first trimester or had received no care at all; in most states, the proportion was significantly lower than it had been in 1993. Similarly, the...

Likelihood That a Condom Will Break or Slip Off Is at Least Partly Related to User's Characteristics.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... While having a condom break or slip off during intercourse is often the result of design and manufacturing flaws, the user's experience with the method and other characteristics also play a part, according to a large prospective follow-up...