Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from September 2007

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from September 2007

Clients who dare not speak their name.(FYI)(Report)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... At a public sexual health clinic in Sydney that gives clients the option not to provide a surname, 5% of first-time clients in 1998-2004 took advantage of that offer. (1) These clients were less likely than others to have had contact with an...

Why not use protection?(FYI)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Why would women who do not wish to conceive have unprotected sex? According to an analysis of data collected in 2000-2002 by the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), many of them believe that they cannot become pregnant. (1) The...

Policy helps prevent HIV.(FYI)(human immunodeficiency virus)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Federal guidelines and a state law aimed at expanding perinatal HIV services appear to have had an effect in California. (1) The federal guidelines, issued in 1994 and 1995, recommend that HIV-infected women and their newborns receive...

Shame on me?(FYI)(Report)
September 1, 2007... When asked how they thought they would feel and how they thought other people would react to them if they tested positive for human papillomavirus (HPV), female university students who knew that the virus is sexually transmitted reported higher...

Abortion not a factor in breast cancer risk.(FYI)(Report)
September 1, 2007... A large prospective study of U.S. women has found no association between induced or spontaneous abortion and the incidence of breast cancer. (1) The Nurses' Health Study II has been following a cohort of 25-42-year-old nurses enrolled in 1989...

HIV testing options: the dollars and sense.(FYI)(Report)
September 1, 2007... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommended strategy of routine opt-out HIV testing, in which all 13-64-year-olds receiving services in any health care setting would be offered testing but could decline the offer, may not be...

Does location matter?(FYI)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Living close to a family planning facility is not associated with a reduced risk of unintended pregnancy but may be related to an elevated risk of teenage pregnancy. (1) In analyses of data from four states on women reporting unintended...

The Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS has issued an interim set of guidelines aimed at ensuring the protection of the confidentiality and security of information about people with HIV infection.
September 1, 2007... * The Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS has issued an interim set of guidelines aimed at ensuring the protection of the confidentiality and security of information about people with HIV infection. The guidelines, which were developed at a...

In A Portrait of Sexuality Education and Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs in the States, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) presents a detailed look at abstinence-only education in 2006.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... * In A Portrait of Sexuality Education and Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs in the States, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) presents a detailed look at abstinence-only education in 2006. For...

What's love got to do with it? Sexual behaviors of opposite-sex couples through emerging adulthood.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Emerging adulthood is a period beyond adolescence when adult roles and relationships are being established. (1,2) It is a time of great transition, when many individuals develop important romantic attachments and engage in long-term sexual...

Using clinical classification trees to identify individuals at risk of STDs during pregnancy.(sexually transmitted diseases)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Young pregnant women are a group at particularly high risk of STDs. (1,2) In a systematic literature review of sexual risk and STDs among pregnant teenagers and those who have given birth, STD incidence was 19-39% during pregnancy, and 14-39%...

Adolescents' discussions about contraception or STDs with partners before first sex.(sexually transmitted diseases)(Report)
September 1, 2007... One primary component of effective pregnancy and STD prevention programs is teaching teenagers to negotiate sexual activity and contraceptive use with dating partners and, if they engage in sex, to discuss contraception and STDs with a partner...

Characteristics associated with emergency contraception use by family planning patients: a prospective cohort study.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Making emergency contraception available in advance of need enables it to be used as soon as possible after unprotected sex, when it is most effective. Prospective randomized controlled studies in the United States, (1-5) the United Kingdom (6)...

California parents' preferences and beliefs regarding school-based sex education policy.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Ongoing and sometimes rancorous policy debates at the federal, state and local school district levels focus on the relative merits of sex education that teaches abstinence-only until marriage versus approaches that include instruction on...

Developing Spanish-language family planning materials: lessons learned from extensive field tests.(SPECIAL REPORT)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Despite the importance of providing family planning clients with educational materials that are easy to read and understand, scant information is available on the development of materials for clients who feel most comfortable speaking and...

Having children with multiple partners is associated with women's perception of lower social support.(DIGESTS)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Women who have had children with multiple partners are less likely than others to feel supported by their family and friends, according to analyses of data on mothers of an urban U.S. cohort of children. (1) Multipartnered fertility was...

A fourth of U.S. women aged 14-59 have a human papillomavirus infection.(Digests)(Clinical report)
September 1, 2007... Twenty-seven percent of U.S. females aged 14-59 are infected with at least one type of human papillomavirus (HPV); 15% are positive for high-risk types, which can cause cervical, genital or anal cancer, and 18% for low-risk types, according to...

Infants' low birth weight is linked to low-income mothers' chronic stress.(Digests)(Clinical report)
September 1, 2007... Low-income women who suffer from chronic psychosocial stress are at increased risk of having a low-birth-weight baby, according to findings from a study of Illinois welfare recipients. (1) Overall, 13% of women who gave birth during the course...

Ovarian cancer protection from oral contraceptives is greatest with the lowest doses of hormones.(Digests)(Clinical report)
September 1, 2007... Oral contraceptive use has a well-established association with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer; new evidence from a population-based case-control study suggests that pills with the lowest hormonal content offer the greatest protection. (1) The...

Teenage parents' educational attainment is affected more by available resources than by parenthood.(Digests)(Report)
September 1, 2007... For teenage parents, the availability of material resources has a greater effect on educational attainment than parenthood, according to an analysis of data from the 1988-2000 waves of the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS). (1)...

Delinquent youths' risky behavior presents public health challenge for their communities.(Digests)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Patterns of risky behavior among youth who pass through the juvenile justice system may persist for years, keeping these young men and women at high risk of acquiring, and transmitting, STDs. (1) In a study of youth who spent time in a Chicago...

Partners' reports of sexual activity, but not of risky behavior, generally agree.(Digests)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Women and their partners enrolled in a clinical trial of an intervention aimed at preventing heterosexual transmission of HIV and other STDs generally gave the same responses when asked whether they had recently engaged in a variety of sexual...