Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from July 2003

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from July 2003

Variations on a theme by Yuzpe.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... While the Yuzpe regimen of emergency contraception--calling for two doses of oral contraceptives containing ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel--remains the standard, different formulations and ways of taking pills after unprotected sex may be...

How to make a quick euro.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Starting January 1, 2004, every French woman who has a child will receive a government award of 800 euros. (1) The bonus, announced in May, is one of several measures the government has taken to promote larger families in France, where...

HIV programs for teenagers work.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Teenagers who have participated in educational, psychosocial or behavioral interventions aimed at preventing HIV infection are at reduced risk for acquiring the virus, according to results of a meta-analysis examining data from 44 controlled...

Answering the call.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Antiabortion groups are beginning to take advantage of a fairly new fund-raising tool: a phone company that donates all profits to organizations whose members sign up for its services. (1) Last year, about 1,000 of the Christian Coalition's two...

Wouldn't it be nice?(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Twenty percent of U.S. men and women believe that an HIV vaccine exists but is being kept secret, according to preliminary findings from a nationwide survey of 3,500 people. (1) This misperception is more common than average among Hispanics...

British invasion.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The number of new HIV infections is rising each year in Britain, but a parliamentary committee reports that the incidence of "older" sexually transmitted diseases is particularly worrisome. (1) Over the last six years, the incidence of...

What would Ford think?(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Americans manage to get quite a lot done while riding in their cars or other motor vehicles: They drink coffee, talk on the phone, apply makeup and, with surprising frequency, give birth. According to a phone survey conducted by Jiffy Lube and...

Practice, practice, practice.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The abortion training that obstetrician-gynecologists receive during residency is an important predictor of whether they will provide the procedure once they are in practice. (1) In a survey of 161 physicians who graduated from five residency...

Reducing risk among men who have sex with men.(FYI)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Nearly half of men who enrolled in a randomized trial of an HIV prevention intervention for men who have sex with men reported having had unprotected receptive anal sex within the previous six months, and slightly more than half said they had...

Adolescent drinking and sex: findings from a daily diary study.(Articles)
July 1, 2003... Adolescents have high rates of sexual risk-taking. Although condom use has increased among U.S. adolescents (1) and rates of teenage pregnancy decreased during the 1990s, (2) teenagers do not consistently protect themselves from sexually...

IUD-related knowledge, attitudes and practices among Navajo Area Indian Health Service providers.
July 1, 2003... The IUD is a safe, effective form of contraception, whose widespread use could decrease the high rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States. Forty-nine percent of pregnancies in the United States are unintended, the highest proportion in...

Family connectedness and sexual risk-taking among urban youth attending alternative high schools.
July 1, 2003... Approximately one-half of all new HIV infections in the United States occur among persons younger than 25. (1) Nearly four million new sexually transmitted infection (STI) cases each year occur among adolescents. (2) Minority youth are...

Where does reproductive health fit into the lives of adolescent males?
July 1, 2003... The majority of males involved in the approximately one million pregnancies occurring annually among adolescent females (1) are also adolescents. (2) Among sexually experienced adolescent males, approximately 14% have made a partner pregnant...

Teenagers with mental disability lack reproductive education and knowledge; still, many have had sex.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... Teenagers with mental disability report receiving less sex education in school than do their nondisabled peers, and their parents are more often reluctant to discuss reproduction and sexual health with them at home. Meanwhile, a considerable...

Mothers of many newborns with HIV missed chances to obtain preventive care.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... Between 1996 and 2000, more than half of HIV-infected infants in a large pediatric HIV surveillance project were born to women who missed opportunities to obtain perinatal HIV prevention care-18% to women who received no prenatal care, 29% to...

Providers do not fully use adolescent well-care visits to discuss sexual health.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... Although 58-60% of U.S. high school students make preventive health care visits, far lower proportions of those doing so--43% of females and 26% of males--discuss pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention at one. According to...

Maternal mortality exceeds U.S. goal; age and racial differences are marked.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... During the period 1991-1999, more than 4,000 U.S. women died from pregnancy-related causes; in all, 11.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births were pregnancy-related. (1) Analyses conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

High rates of congenital syphilis in Russia linked to inadequate prenatal care.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... The incidence of congenital syphilis, which is largely preventable, is high in the Russian Federation. (1) Because many infected pregnant women are treated inadequately or too late in their pregnancy, 64% deliver babies with presumptive or...

Emergency-room visits can be good opportunities for sexually transmitted disease screening.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... Screening emergency department patients for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can help identify undiagnosed infections, but because populations vary, screening programs have to be tailored to particular settings. (1) At two Baltimore...

Relative risk of cervical cancer rises with duration of oral contraceptive use.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... The relative risk of cervical cancer rises the longer a woman is on the pill. According to a meta-analysis based on data from 28 studies, (1) women who use the pill for 10 or more years are 2.2 times as likely as never-users to develop cervical...

Teenagers have the same risks whether partners are sequential or concurrent.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... One-third of sexually active 15-18-year-olds have had more than one partner, either sequentially or concurrently, within the past 18 months, and these teenagers differ in important ways from their peers who have had only one partner during the...

Method-related problems account for most failures of the female condom.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... The female condom rarely breaks during use, but an efficacy study conducted in 1996-1998 indicates that slippage occurs in nearly one in 10 uses and women may be exposed to semen in up to one in five uses) Although a woman is most likely to be...

Not all Ohio physicians offer HIV testing during standard prenatal care.(Digests)
July 1, 2003... Fewer than half of physicians in northwest Ohio who treat women during pregnancy offer HIV testing to all their pregnant patients, according to a regional survey of obstetrician-gynecologists and primary care physicians. (1) Among those...