Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from March 2005

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from March 2005

Emergency preparedness.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Easy access to emergency contraception does not appear to encourage women to engage in risky behavior. (1) In a study conducted in 2001-2003 in four California clinics, 2,117 women aged 15-24 were randomly assigned to either have access to...

Just between us women ...(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Evidence suggesting that women may contract bacterial vaginosis through sexual activity with female partners is growing. (1) Between 1992 and 1995, some 708 new patients at two London sexual health clinics for lesbians and bisexual women...

Meeting ICPD goals (or not).(FYI)(International Conference on Population and Development)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the extent to which the wealthiest donor countries have met their financial commitments to help achieve the goal of assuring access to basic reproductive health...

Almost complete guidelines.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Justice Department has issued the first-ever national guidelines aimed at helping state, local and tribal jurisdictions to respond "in the most competent, compassionate, and understanding manner possible" to individuals who have experienced...

Watch your mouth.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Fourteen percent of men and women with primary or secondary syphilis interviewed in Chicago in 2000-2002 reported that the only type of sexual contact they had had during the period in which they likely acquired the infection was oral sex. (1)...

Cost of no confidentiality.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Laws that restrict the confidentiality of Texas teenagers who wish to obtain reproductive health services could exact substantial health and economic costs. (1) Using data from the state health department and publicly funded family planning...

Infant deaths in the 'hood.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Infant mortality varies more by neighborhood in New York City than it does in Paris, London or Tokyo. (1) In 1988-1992, the infant mortality rate in high-income neighborhoods of Manhattan was 56% lower than the rate in low-income neighborhoods;...

Computer-age interviewing.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Women and, to a lesser extent, men attending a Seattle sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic in 2002-2003 were more apt to tell a computer about sensitive behaviors than they were to tell a live interviewer. (1) A total of 609 men and women...

Accounting for abstinence.(FYI)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... In two interviews 18 months apart, sexually inexperienced young adolescents in Missouri expressed increasingly positive views toward having intercourse. (1) On average, the 422 youth who reported in both 1997 and 1999 that they had not had sex...

Sexual practices, risk perception and knowledge of sexually transmitted disease risk among lesbian and bisexual women.
March 1, 2005... In the United States, where an estimated 2.3 million women describe themselves as lesbian, (1) transmission of common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)-including trichomoniasis, genital herpes, human papillomavirus and HIV--between female...

Sexual intentions of black preadolescents: associations with risk and adaptive behaviors.
March 1, 2005... Adolescent engagement in sexual behaviors is an issue of substantial concern in the United States. Forty-five percent of students in grades 9-12 have engaged in sexual intercourse, (1) and sexual initiation occurs before the age of 13 for 7-17%...

Emergency contraceptive pills: dispensing practices, knowledge and attitudes of South Dakota pharmacists.
March 1, 2005... Emergency contraceptive pills are most effective within the first 24 hours after unprotected intercourse. (1) Women who must wait for clinic or physician appointments to gain access to the medication could face significant delays in treatment,...

Youth assets and sexual risk behavior: the importance of assets for youth residing in one-parent households.
March 1, 2005... Youth living in one-parent households are more likely to engage in sexual activity and related risk behaviors than are those in two-parent households. For example, compared with youth living in two-parent households, those living in one-parent...

Correlates of partner-specific condom use intentions among incarcerated women in Rhode Island.
March 1, 2005... Unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are important and cosily public health problems in the United States and are highly prevalent among incarcerated women. Nationally, 6-10% of incarcerated women are pregnant; 1,400...

Opportunities for action: addressing Latina sexual and reproductive health.(Special Report)
March 1, 2005... Latinas account for approximately one in every seven U.S. women of reproductive age. (1) Although several national organizations and numerous local groups are dedicated to improving Latino health, significant gaps exist in the breadth and depth...

Cultural sensitivity and research involving sexual minorities.(Viewpoint)
March 1, 2005... It is only reasonable to assume that public health research studies and interventions should be considered appropriate and relevant by their participants. Such appropriateness and relevance is, moreover, a prerequisite to having participants....

Women in their 30s are the most likely to experience adverse birth outcomes if jailed during pregnancy.(Digests)
March 1, 2005... Whether women who spend time in jail while pregnant are at increased risk of poor birth outcomes may depend on their age. Infants born to women in Washington State who were incarcerated and in their 30s during pregnancy weighed significantly...

Odds of penile HPV are reduced for circumcised men and condom users.(Digests)(human papillomavirus)
March 1, 2005... Men who are circumcised and use condoms consistently may have a reduced risk of carrying human papillomavirus (HPV) on their penises. In analyses of data from a public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic in Tucson, (1) HPV was...

Injectable use may increase women's odds of getting chlamydia or gonorrhea.(Digests)
March 1, 2005... The use of progestin-only injectable contraceptives may be linked to an increased risk of chlamydial or gonococcal infection (hazard ratio, 3.6), according to data from women attending two Baltimore-area clinics. (1) In contrast to several...

Young women victimized in adolescence are at risk of further sexual violence.(Digests)
March 1, 2005... Thirty percent of 14-23-year-old females who sought services at an adolescent health center in New York City between October 2000 and February 2002 reported an unwanted sexual experience in the past 12 months. (1) Of the participants in this...

Unprotected anal sex is not uncommon among men with HIV infection.(Digests)
March 1, 2005... Three in 10 HIV-positive men interviewed in 1995-2000 reported that in the previous year, they had had unprotected anal intercourse with a steady male partner who was HIV-negative or whose infection status was unknown; the proportion was almost...

History of endometriosis places women at high risk of ovarian cancer, but pill use remains protective.(Digests)
March 1, 2005... Women who have had endometriosis have an increased likelihood of developing ovarian cancer, but some of the same reproductive factors that lower the odds of cancer for women in general also appear to be protective for this high-risk group. (1)...

Rapid HIV test offered to women in labor proves acceptable and reliable.(Digests)
March 1, 2005... Eighty-four percent of women in a multicenter study who were offered a rapid HW test during labor agreed to be tested; the test proved to be highly reliable and thus gave women who had not known that they were infected an opportunity to receive...

Confidential services for teenagers.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... In "Confidential Reproductive Health Services for Minors: The Potential Impact of Mandated Parental Involvement for Contraception" [2004, 36(5):182-1911, Rachel K. Jones and Heather Boonstra provide a valuable synthesis of the literature...