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Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2003
This report presents data on syphilis infections and trends in the United States in 2003.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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December 2004
Trends in the Prevalence of Sexual Behaviors: NYRBS 1991-2007
This chart provides data from the Risk Behaviour Survey on current and lifetime sexual behaviour including contraceptive use and school acquired knowledge of STDs among American students in grades nine to twelve.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Center for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services
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2008
Sweden’s Successful Drug Policy: A Review of the Evidence
This report examines the history and development of Sweden’s drug policy aimed at creating a drug free society.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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United Nations, Office on Drugs and Crime
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February 2007
The National Household HIV Prevalence and Risk Survey of South African Children
This report presents the results of a survey investigating South African children's experience of HIV/AIDS.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Human Sciences Research Council
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2004
Global Summary of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic, 2006
This brief provides the global data and estimates for HIV and AIDS for 2006.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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World Health Organization
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December 2006
American Sexual Behavior: Trends, Socio-Demographic Differences, and Risk Behavior
This report discusses issues pertaining to the sexual activities and behaviours of Americans, including prostitution, premarital and extramarital sex, homosexuality, the use of condoms, pregnancy, and AIDS.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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National Opinion Research Center
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March 2006
The Entertainment Media as "Sex Educators?" And, Other Ways Teens Learn About Sex, Contraception, STDs, and AIDS
In question & answer format, this paper examines the different sources of sex education for adolescents and looks specifically at the impact of the media in this area.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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June 24, 1996
Sex, Marriage, and Fathering: A Profile of Latin American and Caribbean Men
This report provides information about the sexual health, behaviours, attitudes, and needs of men in seven different Latin American and Caribbean countries.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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2004
HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Sexual Behavior Among Junior Secondary School Students in South Africa
This article examines sexual activity, safe sex practices, and HIV and AIDS knowledge and awareness among South African adolescents.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Science Publications
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2005
The Condom Controversy: Safe Sex or Russian Roulette?
This paper examines the decline of sexual health despite government funded initiatives to improve sexual health through condom promotion.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Family Education Trust
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August 2002
Guardianship Planning Among HIV-Infected Parents in the United States: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample.
This study surveyed 222 unmarried HIV-infected parents regarding guardianship planning.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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February 2007
Pediatric, Adolescent, and Maternal AIDS Branch NICHD: Report to the NACHHD Council
This paper discusses AIDS and its impact on maternal and child health outcomes in the US.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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January 01, 2003
The Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Interventions for the Care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Literature Review of Evidence-Based Interventions for Home-Based Child-Centred Development
This report describes and evaluates interventions designed to support AIDS-affected children in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Human Sciences Research Council
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2004
The State of Children in Gauteng: A Report for the Office of the Premier, Gauteng Provincial Government
This comprehensive report provides statistical data on various indicators of the well-being of children in the South African province of Gauteng.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Child, Youth and Family Development Research Programme of the HSRC
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October 2003
Child Health
This update from the Health Systems Trust presents articles on various topics relating to child welfare in South Africa, including smoking, malnutrition, surgery, HIV, gun violence, child labour, and child abandonment.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Health Systems Trust
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May 2000
Preventing HIV Transmission to Children: Quality of Counselling of Mothers in South Africa
This article assesses the quality of counselling received by mothers who participate in a program to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Taylor and Francis Group
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2005
Disparities in Attitudes Towards People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA): A Nationwide Study
This study examines social and cultural factors that affect people's attitudes and behaviours toward individuals living with AIDS.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Human Sciences Research Council
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2003
HIV/AIDS in Households with Children Suffering from Malnutrition: The Role of Social Security in Mount Frere
This case study, based on the Mount Frere region of South Africa, examines the effects of HIV/AIDS on households already experiencing poverty and child malnutrition.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The South African Journal of Economics
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December 2002
Not Yet: Programs to Delay First Sex Among Teens
This report provides detailed information about the cost, availability, and content of programs that have experienced success at delaying sexual initiation among adolescents.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
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September 2004
Ominous Convergence: Sex Trafficking, Prostitution and International Family Planning
This article examines the problem of sex trafficking and its frequent equation with prostitution.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Allan Guttmacher Institute
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February 2005
Implications of Racial and Gender Differences in Patterns of Adolescent Risk Behavior for HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
This article examines race and gender variations in adolescent risk-taking behaviour and explores the possibility of a connection between a population's risky behaviour and rate of sexually transmitted disease infection.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Allan Guttmacher Institute
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November/December 2004
The Elderly and AIDS: Coping Strategies and Health Consequences in Rural Tanzania
This study examines the activities and welfare of older adults in households before and after the loss of a prime-aged household member in Tanzania, primarily as a result of the AIDS virus.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Council, Policy Research Division
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2002
The Living Arrangements of Older Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Time of HIV/AIDS
This study examines the living arrangements of adults aged 60 and over in 16 African countries.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Council
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2003
Condom Use and Abstinence Among Unmarried Young People in Zimbabwe: Which Strategy, Whose Agenda?
This paper compares Zimbabwean young peoples' views about condom use and abstinence to the beliefs underlying government policies and religious beliefs.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Council
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2003
Pregnant or Positive: Adolescent Childbearing and HIV Risk in South Africa
This study explores the extent to which adolescent childbearing preferences are affected by their perceived risk of acquiring HIV.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Council
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2002
Willingness to Care for Children Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: a Study of Foster and Adoptive Parents
This study investigates foster parents' willingness to care for children orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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NISC
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2004
The Demography of Sexual Behaviour
This paper attempts to understand sexual behaviours in America and how sexual practices are shaping society.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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1994
Prevention of Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection: Report to Congress
This report describes human papillomavirus (HPV) characteristics, transmission, and prevention methods, and also reveals that condoms are not necessarilly effective in protecting against HPV.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Department of Health and Human Services
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January 01, 2004
Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Unsafe Sexual Behaviors Among Young Women and Men in South Africa
This paper discusses the relationship between low socio-economic status and participation in sexual activities that increase the risk of pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted disease among young adults in South Africa.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Council
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2004
Women’s Sexual Control within Conjugal Union: Implications for HIV/AIDS Infection and Control in a Metropolitan City
This study, conducted in Lagos, Nigeria, examines women's control over sexual relations within marriage and the implications of this for the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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March 01, 2005
Family and Community Interventions for Children Affected by AIDS
This report reviews existing literature on interventions designed to meet the needs of children who have been orphaned or are at risk as a result of AIDS in South Africa.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Human Sciences Research Council
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January 01, 2004
AIDS and Older Persons: An International Perspective
This paper looks at older people's experience with AIDS, both through personal infection and, more commonly, through the illness and death of their adult children.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Studies Center
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January 2002
Combined Use of Condoms with Other Contraceptive Methods Among Inner-City Baltimore Women
This paper examines how the increase in Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's), particularly among adolescents, has dictated a reassessment of the need for various protective methods.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Alan Guttmacher Institute
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April 01, 1995
America's "Lost Children": Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality in International Perspective
This paper compares rates of adolescent and young adult mortality across thirty countries over four decades, focusing specifically on death caused by motor vehicle accidents, suicide, HIV infection and homicide.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Research Center
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November 12, 1998
Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2001
This report presents 2001 data on sexually transmitted diseases for the
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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September 2001
Sexually Transmitted Infections in Canada: Recent Resurgence Threatens National Goals
This article discusses the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in Canada in light of 1997 national goals for prevention.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
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Fall 2000
Public Policy Implications of HIV/AIDS in Adolescents
This article discusses the risk of HIV/AIDS infection to young people, the role that adolescents play in spreading the disease, and the options for intervention programs based in schools.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Future of Children
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Winter 1994
The Mwomboko Research Project: The Practice of Male Circumcision in Central Kenya and its Implications for the Transmission and Prevention of STD/HIV
This report discusses the practice of circumcision in Central Kenya and its implications for the transmission or prevention of HIV.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Counceli for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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1997
2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
This 2004 report examines the AIDS epidemic on a global scale.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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UNAIDS
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June 2004
National HIV and Syphilis Antenatal Sero-Prevalence Survey in South Africa
Using data from a 2003 South African survey of pregnant women, this report describes the trends of HIV and syphilis among its participants.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Department of Health: Republic of South Africa
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2003
Poverty and Labour Market Markers of HIV+ Households: An Exploratory Methodological Analysis
This paper highlights the multidimensional relationship between poverty, labour market participation, and HIV infection at both the individual and household levels.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Development Policy Research Unit
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February 2004
Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 1998
This paper examines substance use rates in Australia, the health of drug and alcohol users, and the health behaviours and incidences of crime and violence related to substance abuse.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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March 01, 2000
Youth Risk Behaviour Surveillance - United States, 2003
This article examines health-risk behaviours among youth, such as: violence, substance abuse, sexual activity, diet, and physical inactivity.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Epidemiology Program Office, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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May 21, 2004
Sexual Initiation with Older Male Partners and Subsequent HIV Risk Behavior Among Female Adolescents
This article provides evidence that adolescent girls whose first sexual encounter was with a partner several years older than them were more likely to have sex at a younger age and less likely to use a condom.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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October 01, 1997
Confronting a Hidden Epidemic: The Institute Of Medicine’s Report on Sexually Transmitted Diseases
This article discusses the serious and growing problem of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, and argues that Americans need to practice healthier sexual behaviour.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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April 01, 1997
Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2002
This paper examines HIV and AIDS statistics in the US by state, means of exposure, gender, race/ethnicity, age, and vital status.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2002
Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in the United States
This fact sheet outlines the sexual behaviour of adolescents in the US including related issues such as STD's, condom use, teenage pregnancy, and age of sexual initiation.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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February 01, 1997
The Estimated Direct Medical Cost of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among American Youth, 2000
This article estimates that the direct cost of new cases of sexually transmitted disease among youth, ages 15 to 24, was about $6.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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February 01, 2004
Conflicting Advice? Australian Adolescents’ Use of Condoms or the Pill
This article examines the types of contraception used by Australian young people, and looks also at the factors that affect their choice of method.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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August 01, 1999
Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Change In Developing Countries
This article analyzes the family planning programs in developing countries that promote the use of contraceptive measures.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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September 01, 2000
Sex Education in the U.S.: Policy and Politics
This paper discusses the federal, state and local policies on sex education, including abstinence-only, abstinence-plus, and HIV/AIDS education programs.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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October 01, 2002
Prostitution Laws in Australia
This paper investigates Australia's prsotitution laws by state, and examines the problems associated with legislation from the perspectives of both the police and the prostitutes.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Australian Institute of Criminology
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May 01, 1990
Safer Sex, Condoms, and "the Pill"
This poll surveys teenagers attitudes towards contraceptives and condoms, their perceptions and misperceptions about protection, and factors influencing what, if any, protection they use.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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November 01, 2000
Understanding U.S. Fertility: Continuity And Change in the National Survey Of Family Growth, 1988-1995
This article uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to analyse patterns of fertility, infertility, contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, concern about sexually transmitted disease, and women's use of health services from 1988 to 1995.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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February 01, 1996
Canadian Youth, Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Study: Factors Influencing Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours
This paper examines adolescent sexual health and activity including dating, the influence of parents and peers, sexual orientation, STD and HIV/AIDS knowledge and prevalence, and attitudes towards sex.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Council of Ministers of Education
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2003
Dangerous Liaisons: Substance Abuse and Sex
This study looks at the association between substance abuse and risky sexual behaviour, especially among children, teens, women and homosexuals.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
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December 01, 1999
The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers
This paper examines trends in the sexual activity, contraceptive use, and rates of pregnancy, births and abortions of teenage girls.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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February 25, 2000
Investing in Adolescent Health: A Social Imperative for California's Future
This paper discusses the importance of ensuring good adolescent health, makes recommendations for providing health services to teens, and suggests specific strategies to address seven different areas of adolescent health.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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National Adolescent Health Information Center
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2000
National Survey of Adolescents and Young Adults: Sexual Health Knowledge, Attitudes and Experiences
This paper examines the sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of today’s adolescents and addresses topics such as pregnancy, STD's, AIDS, the use of birth control, the influence of substance use on sexual choices, and experiences with peer pressure to engage in sexual activities.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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2003
The World's Youth 2000
This report provides a profile of young people around the world, covering topics such as education, marriage, sexual activity, childbearing, sexually transmitted disease, sexual violence against women, and contraception.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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Population Reference Bureau
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April 01, 2003
Promoting Sexual Responsibility Among Young People in Zimbabwe
This article discusses a campaign that creates awareness of contraceptive methods and general knowledge about reproductive health among Zimbabwian youth.
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Category:
Sexuality > AIDS
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute
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March 01, 2001
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