Yong Ma

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association of psychological distress and health risk behaviors among HIV-infected adolescents, and found that higher levels of distress would be associated with increased sexual risk behaviors, and increased use of alcohol and drugs.

TL;DR: Higher levels of depression were associated with frequent alcohol use and with unprotected sex at last intercourse, with depressed adolescents significantly more likely to have had unprotected sex than those who were not depressed.

TL;DR: It was found that adolescent girls with greater numbers of lifetime sex partners were more likely to have mature cervixes (less ectopy), and HIV infection was not independently associated with ectopy.

TL;DR: Strong risk factors for abnormal anal cytology were HIV infection and anal HPV in boys and analHPV and higher number of sexual partners for girls and the results suggest that anus cytology screening should be considered in HIV infected homosexual/bisexual males.

TL;DR: The novel association between herpes simplex virus-2 seropositivity and incident HPV infection warrants further investigation because having a high-risk partner is a potentially modifiable risk factor for persistent HPV infection.