Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from June 2007

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from June 2007

Birth dearth fallout.(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... In Japan, where the population is aging and the birthrate is falling, the number of obstetricians declined by more than 5% between 2000 and 2004. (1) About half of obstetricians are at least 50 years old, and the majority of younger...

Is the system the problem?(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Reports by disadvantaged people with HIV suggest that discrimination from within the health care system may deter some portion of this population from obtaining necessary care. (1) Among a sample of HIV-infected homeless individuals living in...

Another racial disparity.(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Not only do black women with breast cancer learn of their illness later than whites, but a hospital-based study of more than 1,000 women who underwent mammography in 1996-1998 suggests that they more often receive inadequate communication of...

Will your doctor tell you what you need to know?(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... An individual whose physician has a moral or religious objection to a particular procedure may not be able to count on the physician to provide information about it or a referral to a doctor who will perform it. (1) In a survey conducted among...

Gonorrhea is now a superbug.(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Gonorrhea's resistance to the class of antibiotics most commonly used to treat infected individuals has exceeded acceptable levels, causing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to modify its recommendations for the treatment of...

Birth outcomes improve for HIV-exposed infants.(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Between 1989 and 2004, a span including the introduction of antiretroviral therapy for pregnant HIV-positive women and their infants, birth outcomes in a large longitudinal perinatal and HIV study improved dramatically. (1) The proportion of...

Is smoking related to AIDS?(FYI)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Smoking tobacco may be related to HIV acquisition but apparently not to the development of AIDS. In a systematic review of the literature, researchers found six studies, all conducted during the 1990s, that examined the relationship between...

It's all in the timing.(FYI)(condoms usage)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Three-fifths of sexually experienced students participating in a British survey said that they had used condoms the last time they had vaginal intercourse, but the way some had used the method could have sharply reduced its effectiveness. (1)...

Consider the source.(FYI)(emergency contraception )(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Advance provision of emergency contraception may have greater impact than both clinic and pharmacy access, according to results of a randomized trial conducted among family planning clinic clients in the San Francisco Bay area in 2001-2003. (1)...

Patterns of men's use of sexual and reproductive health services.
June 1, 2007... Sexual and reproductive health care providers in the United States have traditionally served women and, with the spread of HIV and AIDS, men who have sex with men. Heterosexual men remain largely invisible, although there have been calls for...

Stepfather involvement and adolescents' disposition toward having sex.
June 1, 2007... What predicts adolescent sexual activity? This question has been of central interest to researchers for more than two decades. (1-5) Among the factors that have been investigated, family structure has received a considerable amount of...

Factors associated with contraceptive use and nonuse, United States, 2004.
June 1, 2007... Women are exposed to the risk of unintended pregnancy over much of their adult lives. Even though continuous, correct use of contraceptives during all periods of risk can greatly reduce the likelihood of unintended pregnancy, many women have...

I wanna hold your hand: the progression of social, romantic and sexual events in adolescent relationships.
June 1, 2007... Most young people have been involved in at least one romantic relationship by middle adolescence, and the majority are in an ongoing relationship by late adolescence. (1,2) Adolescents report preoccupation with romantic feelings and...

Association between adolescent pregnancy and a family history of teenage births.
June 1, 2007... Considerable evidence documents that sisters of childbearing teenagers have disproportionately high teenage pregnancy rates and birthrates. (1-6) In one study, young women whose sisters had had a teenage birth had teenage childbearing rates...

Sex education and sexual socialization: roles for educators and parents.(VIEWPOINT)
June 1, 2007... Sexuality is an essential component of healthy development for young people. Both the World Health Organization and the report from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development emphasize the importance of healthy sexual...

Women who are fecund but do not wish to have children outnumber the involuntarily childless.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... Seven percent of U.S. women aged 35-44 are voluntarily childless: They have never given birth and do not expect to, and either are fecund or have undergone contraceptive sterilization. Voluntarily childless women make up a larger share of...

Teenagers report both positive and negative consequences from sex.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... Adolescents who engage in oral or vaginal sex report a wide range of social, emotional and physical consequences, both positive and negative, according to a survey of California high school students. (1) Teenagers who had had only oral sex were...

Many pediatricians are reluctant to vaccinate young females against human papillomavirus.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... Less than a year before a vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in females was approved and a federal advisory committee recommended that it be administered to all 11-12-year-old females, fewer than half of U.S. pediatricians...

The majority of heterosexually acquired HIV infections occur among women and blacks.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... The burden of heterosexually acquired HIV infection is borne disproportionately by women and blacks, according to an analysis of data from 29 states that conduct confidential name-based HIV and AIDS surveillance. (1) Between 1999 and 2004 in...

Prevalence of STDs is high for black young adults regardless of risk behavior.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... Even if black young adults participate only in low-risk behaviors, their prevalence of STDs, including HIV, is higher than the national average for their age-group, according to analyses based on Wave 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of...

Title X funding does not always mean the most accessible services for family planning clients.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... Services available to family planning clients may differ substantially by key characteristics of the facilities. For example, in a sample of facilities in four states, (1) Title X-funded sites were more likely than those without Title X funding...

Women support getting hormonal contraceptives without a prescription.(DIGESTS)
June 1, 2007... More than two-thirds of U.S. women aged 18-44 and at risk for unintended pregnancy say they would obtain hormonal contraceptives from pharmacies if these methods were available without prescription, and more than half would be more likely to...