Family Planning Perspectives articles from March 2001

Family Planning Perspectives archives from March 2001

Providers Who See Sexually Active Teenagers Often Fail To Test Them for Chlamydia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Although nearly three-quarters of primary care providers regularly take a sexual history from female adolescents during annual and new visits, only about half routinely screen those who are sexually active for chlamydia.[1] Women practitioners...

Cesarean Section Poses Fewer Risks Than Vaginal Delivery for Term Infants in Breech Presentation.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Planned vaginal delivery holds significantly higher risks than planned cesarean section for term infants in breech presentation.[1] According to data from a multinational randomized trial, infants scheduled to be delivered by cesarean section...

Levels of HIV Risk Behaviors Are Significantly Elevated Among Women Who Have Ever Had Sex with Women.
March 1, 2001... Bacterial vaginosis appears to be more common, and genital warts less common, among women who have ever had sex with women than among women without same-sex experience. The gender of a woman's recent sexual partners, however, does not seem to...

How Available Is Abortion Training?
March 1, 2001... We appreciate the recent publication in Family Planning Perspectives of an analysis suggesting that routine training in abortion care has increased [Abortion training in U.S. obstetrics and gynecology residency programs, 1998, 2000,...

A Substantial Minority of New Mothers Lack Basic Facts About the Transmission of HIV from Mother to Child.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Nearly all new mothers appear to know that a pregnant women can transmit HIV to her unborn child, and nine in 10 say they were given information about HIV and AIDS as part of their prenatal care. However, according to information collected...

Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents Under the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
March 1, 2001... The State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP or SCHIP (Title XXI of the Social Security Act), was enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The program is one of the most significant moves taken by Congress to...

Factors at Birth May Affect Women's Risk of Developing Breast Cancer at Young Age.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... A woman's own characteristics at birth, such as her birth weight, and her mother's age at delivery may be related to her risk of early-onset breast cancer, according to a study of young women in the state of New York.[1] Women whose birth...

ECs Make Pediatricians Squirm.(emergency contraception)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... While 79% of pediatricians surveyed in New York State said that they counsel teenagers about contraception during routine visits, only 17% discuss emergency contraceptive pills with these patients.[1] Three-quarters of the 233 respondents were...

Risks Among Youths Who Have Multiple Sisters Who Were Adolescent Parents.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Typically, at intake into a health clinic or social service agency, staff take an inventory of adolescent clients family background. Oftentimes, they ask youths about their number of siblings and the number of their siblings who became pregnant...

Reduced Risks for Teenagers' Babies.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Among healthy, normal-birth-weight babies born to teenagers in Washington State between 1987 and 1995, the risk of being hospitalized during the first year of life was reduced by 22% if the mother had commercial health insurance.[1] An analysis...

In Brief.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... * The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued a statement endorsing the availability of emergency contraception "over the counter in a designated product." Noting that the method could reduce by half the number of...

Effects of a Parent-Child Communications Intervention on Young Adolescents' Risk for Early Onset of Sexual Intercourse.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The extent to which parents are involved and the manner in which they are involved in their children s lives are critical factors in the prevention of high-risk sexual activity. Children whose parents talk with them about sexual matters or...

Manifestations of Poverty and Birthrates Among Young Teenagers in California Zip Code Areas.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Reducing birthrates among teengers--especially young teengers--is -- an important national goal, because childbearing within this age-group is linked to a variety of negative consequences for adolescent mothers, their infants and society at...

Teenage Childbearing and Long-Term Socioeconomic Consequences: A Case Study in Sweden.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Much of the research conducted on teenage childbearing in the developed world indicates that compared with older mothers, teenage mothers are more likely to have been brought up in a less-advantageous social environment.[1] Moreover, growing up...

HIV Therapy Options in Pregnancy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Pregnant women with HIV have a significantly elevated risk of delivering before 37 weeks' gestation if they take zidovudine in combination with other drugs to prevent transmitting the virus to their infant.[1] In an analysis of 3,920...

Contraceptive Use Elevates The Odds of Barrier Method Use for Disease Prevention.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Low-income women with a high risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease (STD) are more likely to use condoms or spermicides for STD prevention if they have been using contraceptives, particularly barrier methods, than if they have not...

Who's for HIV Testing at Home?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Men and women at high risk of HIV infection may be willing to collect their own saliva and blood samples for laboratory analysis, but providers have reservations about this approach to HIV testing.[1] In a study that surveyed and conducted...

Estrogen Therapy Gets Short Shrift.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Estrogen replacement therapy can help prevent heart disease and osteoporosis if it is used for at least four years, but few women stay with it for that long, according to a study in Quebec.[1] Of 4,527 women who began taking estrogen between...

Once a Victim, Always a Victim?(Sexual victimization)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Sexual victimization in childhood increases the risk of similar victimization during adolescence, and the latter experience raises the odds of victimization during college, according to results of a five-year longitudinal survey of students at...

Stigma and Ignorance.(attitudes toward HIV infection)
March 1, 2001... Nineteen percent of American adults surveyed in the second half of 2000 believe that "people who got AIDS through sex or drug use have gotten what they deserve."[1] Among the 5,641 respondents in the nationally representative sample, men,...

IN THIS ISSUE.(Review)
March 1, 2001... "Hey, Mom. It's time to do my sex ed homework. Have you got a minute?" Homework. Sexuality education. And Mom (or Dad). It's an unlikely combination, to say the least. But in this issue of Family Planning Perspectives, Susan Blake and her...