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...
Background: In India HIV epidemic still being driven by risky behavior of men and high HIV infection rates among sex workers continue to be detected in India. Research among higher risk subpopulations in developed countries, indicates that persons at risk of HIV infection or transmission of HIV ...
Men are at higher risk of death from COVID-19 than women, but the underlying reasons are not fully understood. We examined the medical data of men and women hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York City to determine whether there were factors which raised the risk of death or requiring inte...
but the determinants of these hormones are not well understood.Cross-sectional analyses of breast cancer risk factors and circulating hormone concentrations in more than 6000 postmenopausal women controls in 13 prospective studies.Concentrations of all hormones were lower in older than younger women, with...
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 ...
The 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) lowered the diagnostic criteria for hypertension. We aimed to explore whether clustering of multiple risk factors are associated with the risk of new-onset hypertension define
Figure 6.Summer temperature and salinity distribution of the surface/bottom seawater The numbers refer to the stations. 下载:全尺寸图片幻灯片 3.2 海水温盐垂向分布特征 虽然调查区不同站位之间水深差别较大,但温度和盐度结构特征在垂向上分布趋势相似(图7)。调查区温度垂直结构表现为自表至底逐渐降低的趋势...
atmosphere during the Middle and Later Pinghu periods caused a sharp increase of erosion. Enormous sediments provided by the source areas were transported into the Xihu Depression, which accelerated the progradation of braided river delta into the sea. In addition, the paleogeographic framework during...
Exchange rates are always relative and are expressed as a comparison of the currencies of two countries. Inflation, interest rates, account deficits, trade balances, and public debt Anurak Tepkhamtai / Getty Images Overview of Exchange Rates ...
The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has begun with a wave of misinformation and fear of infection. This may have led people to self-medicate inappropriately. The World Health Organization describes self-medication (SM) as utilizing medicines to rel