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Sexual behaviour in Britain: partnerships, practices, and HIV risk behaviours
Anne M Johnson,Catherine H Mercer,Bob Erens,Andrew Copas,Sally McManus,Kaye Wellings,Kevin A. Fenton,Christos Korovessis,Wendy Macdowall,Kiran Nanchahal,Susan Purdon,J Field +11 more
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The increased reporting of risky sexual behaviours is consistent with changing cohabitation patterns and rising incidence of sexually transmitted infections.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2001-12-01. It has received 862 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reproductive health & Condom.read more
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Prophylactic quadrivalent human papillomavirus (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) L1 virus-like particle vaccine in young women: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled multicentre phase II efficacy trial
Luisa L. Villa,Ronaldo L.R. Costa,Carlos Alberto Petta,Rosires Pereira de Andrade,Kevin A. Ault,Anna R. Giuliano,Cosette M. Wheeler,Laura A. Koutsky,Christian Malm,Matti Lehtinen,Finn Egil Skjeldestad,Sven Eric Olsson,Margareta Steinwall,Darron R. Brown,Robert J. Kurman,Brigitte M. Ronnett,Mark H. Stoler,Alex Ferenczy,Diane M. Harper,Gretchen M. Tamms,Jimmy Yu,Lisa Lupinacci,Radha Railkar,Frank J. Taddeo,Kathrin U. Jansen,Mark T. Esser,Heather L. Sings,Alfred Saah,Eliav Barr +28 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a double-blind placebo-controlled phase II study was done to assess the efficacy of a prophylactic quadrivalent vaccine targeting the human papillomavirus (HPV) types associated with 70% of cervical cancers (types 16 and 18) and with 90% of genital warts (types 6 and 11).
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Global burden of human papillomavirus and related diseases.
David Forman,Catherine de Martel,Charles J.N. Lacey,Isabelle Soerjomataram,Joannie Lortet-Tieulent,Laia Bruni,Jérôme Vignat,Jacques Ferlay,Freddie Bray,Martyn Plummer,Silvia Franceschi +10 more
TL;DR: Cervical cancer is the third most common female malignancy and shows a strong association with level of development, rates being at least four-fold higher in countries defined within the low ranking of the Human Development Index (HDI) compared with those in the very high category.
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Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective.
Kaye Wellings,Martine Collumbien,Emma Slaymaker,Susheela Singh,Zoé Hodges,Dhaval Patel,Nathalie Bajos +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present original analyses of sexual behaviour data from 59 countries for which they were available, and show substantial diversity in sexual behaviour by region and sex, indicating mainly social and economic determinants of sexual behavior.
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Sexual behaviour in Britain: early heterosexual experience.
Kaye Wellings,Kiran Nanchahal,Wendy Macdowall,Sally McManus,Bob Erens,Catherine H Mercer,Anne M Johnson,Andrew Copas,Christos Korovessis,Kevin A. Fenton,J Field +10 more
TL;DR: The increase in the proportion of women reporting first intercourse before age 16 years does not appear to have continued throughout the past decade, and only a small minority of teenagers have unprotected first intercourse, and early motherhood is more strongly associated with educational level than with family background.
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HIV transmission risk through anal intercourse: systematic review, meta-analysis and implications for HIV prevention
TL;DR: It was demonstrated that it would require unreasonably low numbers of AI HIV exposures per partnership to reconcile the summary per-act and per-partner estimates, suggesting considerable variability in AI infectiousness between and within partnerships over time.
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The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
John H. Gagnon,Robert T. Michael +1 more
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Adolescent sexual behavior, drug use, and violence: increased reporting with computer survey technology
Charles F. Turner,Leighton Ku,Susan Rogers,Laura Duberstein Lindberg,Joseph H. Pleck,Freya L. Sonenstein +5 more
TL;DR: Estimates of the prevalence of male-male sex, injection drug use, and sexual contact with intravenous drug users were higher when audio-CASI was used and increased reporting was also found for several other risk behaviors.
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Concurrent partnerships and the spread of HIV.
TL;DR: The summary measure of concurrency developed here does a good job in predicting the size of the amplification effect, and may therefore be a useful and practical tool for evaluation and intervention at the beginning of an epidemic.
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Sexual behaviour in Britain: early heterosexual experience.
Kaye Wellings,Kiran Nanchahal,Wendy Macdowall,Sally McManus,Bob Erens,Catherine H Mercer,Anne M Johnson,Andrew Copas,Christos Korovessis,Kevin A. Fenton,J Field +10 more
TL;DR: The increase in the proportion of women reporting first intercourse before age 16 years does not appear to have continued throughout the past decade, and only a small minority of teenagers have unprotected first intercourse, and early motherhood is more strongly associated with educational level than with family background.
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