Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from September 2003

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from September 2003

In this issue.(Editorial)
September 1, 2003... Once given short shrift as "women's partners," men are now the focus of a growing number of research efforts and programs pertaining to sexual and reproductive health. The contributions in this issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive...

How do you use this thing?(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Women often put condoms on their partners, but they do not always do it properly. (1) In a survey of 102 college students who had put condoms on their partners at least once in the previous three months, 83% said that they had not checked the...

Boys take more energy.(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Pregnant women take in 10% more energy daily if they are carrying a boy than if they are carrying a girl, according to an analysis of data on 244 Boston women who gave birth in 1994-1995. (1) On average, the difference comes to about 190...

Breastfeeding is catching on.(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sixty-five percent of U.S. children aged 19-35 months in 2001 had ever been breastfed; this proportion is significantly higher than the 54% found in 1988-1994 and close to the Healthy People 2010 goal of 75%. (1) Analyses of the latest data...

How to win friends ...?(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sexually active teenagers may strike their peers as popular, but they may not be seen as the most desirable company) In a survey of 212 suburban New England 10th graders, the 40% who reported having oral sex and the 30% who said they had sexual...

Disease burden for blacks.(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... By applying a mathematical model of HIV transmission to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analysts have estimated that 545 new HIV infections among black men and women in 2000, or 3-5% of new HIV infections among blacks,...

Too many cesareans?(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... In 1999-2001, 8% of deliveries at nearly 2,000 hospitals in 18 states were planned cesareans performed on women who had not gone into labor and had not previously had a cesarean; 22% of these operations involved women who had none of 12...

Abortion restrictions in Russia grow.(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Russia's health ministry has reduced from 13 to four the number of social circumstances under which women can obtain legal induced abortions 12-22 weeks into pregnancy. (1) Under regulations that took effect in mid-August, abortion remains...

Women's pill IQ is lacking.(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Only about half of women surveyed in four clinics in Portland, Oregon, knew that the pill lowers the risk of acne and menstrual irregularities, and that it raises the risk of weight gain, headaches and thrombosis. (1) Nearly three in 10 were...

Learning who stops care.(FYI)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... A substantial proportion of HIV-infected men and women cease seeking medical care for their illness within a short time, according to a study conducted in two hospitals in New England. (1) Twenty percent of patients interviewed in 1994-1996 at...

Services for men at publicly funded family planning agencies, 1998-1999.
September 1, 2003... The sexual and reproductive health of men in their own right is a topic that has garnered increased attention in recent years, as has the subject of how men can contribute to women's reproductive health. (1) Several efforts have been made to...

The other half of the equation: serving young men in a young women's reproductive health clinic.
September 1, 2003... Rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are high among U.S. adolescents and young adults. (1) Although young men represent half the equation, public health solutions have typically targeted young women, and the...

Man2Man: a promising approach to addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of young men.(Special Reports)
September 1, 2003... Despite a growing awareness of the importance of involving male adolescents in pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention efforts, information is lacking regarding the design and delivery of effective male-specific strategies....

The young men's clinic: addressing men's reproductive health and responsibilities.
September 1, 2003... Interest in men's health, including their sexual and reproductive health, has been growing over the past two decades. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in...

Integrating Chlamydia trachomatis control services for males in female reproductive health programs.(Viewpoints)
September 1, 2003... Chlamydia trachomatis is the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States. Although more than 700,000 cases were reported in 2000, the total number of annual cases--reported and unreported-is estimated to be three million. (1)...

Making males mindful of their sexual and procreative identities: using self-narratives in field settings.
September 1, 2003... Assisting men to appreciate themselves as sexual beings capable of creating human life will help them protect their own health and well-being while safeguarding their partners and potential children. My experience conducting in-depth interviews...

Among female adolescents, STD history is associated with demographically or socially dissimilar partnering.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... Urban, sexually active female adolescents who have recently had a main or casual sexual relationship with a partner they met through a venue other than school have significantly-increased odds of being dissimilar in age to their partner (odds...

Large proportions of men and women with HIV have sex without telling partners that they are infected.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... Substantial proportions of HIV-positive adults engage in oral, anal or vaginal sex without telling their partner that they are infected, according to findings from a national survey;, the risks associated with such behavior often are...

For whites, but not blacks, binge drinking is linked to unintended pregnancy.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... Binge drinking in the three months before conception is associated with unintended pregnancy, but the relationship appears to vary by race. (1) In a population-based case-control study of women with pregnancies resulting in a live birth, one in...

Sexual behavior is safer when students can get condoms at their schools.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... Massachusetts teenagers who attend schools where condoms are distributed are less likely than those whose schools do not make condoms available ever to have had intercourse and to have done so recently; moreover, if youth are sexually...

Reinfections make up a large share of gonorrhea cases diagnosed at clinics.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... One-fifth of gonorrhea infections diagnosed in heterosexually active individuals during visits to two Baltimore public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in 1998 were reinfections. (1) Individuals receiving a gonorrhea diagnosis at an...

Partner violence during pregnancy increases risk of adverse outcomes.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... Women who are physically abused by an intimate partner during pregnancy have significantly elevated odds of experiencing certain adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to a study in two hospitals in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1) Physical...

Disease risk is elevated among people who feel bad about having sex.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... Emotional experiences surrounding intercourse may be important predictors of high-risk teenagers' and young adults' likelihood of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease (STD). (1) In a decision-tree analysis based on data from patients at an...

Few U.S. school-based health centers offer contraceptives on-site.(Digests)
September 1, 2003... School-based health centers offer U.S. adolescents a wide range of reproductive health counseling, testing and treatment services, both on-site and through referrals. The centers face important barriers in providing these services, however:...