Data on anal intercourse practices among high risk core transmitters of HIV like Female Sex Workers (FSW) in India are sparse. Methods: Data are drawn from the first round of Integrated Biological and Behavioural Assessment aimed at evaluating "Avahan, the India AIDS initiative", a HIV ...
This study surveyed college students in one southern state to determine their sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. A group of 915 students (602 female and 313 male) attending 4 state universities completed the Sexual Knowledge instrument during class. The instrument contained 27 sex knowledge ...
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the most common sexually transmitted viruses [1], with a life-time risk of cervical infection of up to 80% in the female population [2]. Two safe and effective vaccines covering high-risk HPV types 16 and 18 are licensed. Since HPV infection rates rise soo...
A large body of research on justice-involved youth focuses on risk and promotive factors associated with delinquent behaviors. However, few studies of youth involved with the justice system have centered on predictors of positive adjustment post-adjudication, that is, once a youth has been charged ...
Social phobia (SP) refers to excessive anxiety about social interactions. College students, with their exposure to academic, familial, and job-related pressures, are an ideal population for early screening and intervention of social phobia. Additionally,
Current social, legal and institutional factors impede a safe working environment for sex workers and their clients. OBJECTIVES: To describe characteristics and sexual behaviour of female, male and transgender sex workers, and assess their risk factors for unprotected sex. METHODS:Repeat cross-sectional...
We identified three doublesex and mab-3-related transcription factors (DMRT) that were sexually differentially expressed in human fetal gonads and present in the ovaries at the time of meiotic initiation. These were also identified in murine embryonic female germ cells. Among these, we focused on...
In analyses of the full sample, those who were married at both points in time reported lower depression scores than those who were never-married, divorced, or widowed at both time points, and those whose unions dissolved in the interval. Those who were married at both times also generally ...
Studies on the sexual health of sexual minority women (SMW), encompassing both women who have sex with women (WSW) and those who engage in sexual activity with both women and men (WSW/M), have been extensively documented in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia, yet they remain ...
Risk factors and prognosis of cerebral microbleeding (CMB) complicated acute large artery atherosclerotic cerebral infarction (ALAACI) patients was controversial. Present study aimed to investigate the risk factors and severity of CMB among ALAACI. Methods Totally 256 ALAACI patients receiving treatment ...