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The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Thomas R. Eng,William T. Butler +1 more
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The Hidden Epidemic as discussed by the authors examines the scope of sexually transmitted infections in the United States and provides a critical assessment of the nation's response to this public health crisis and identifies the components of an effective national STD prevention and control strategy.Citations
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines
TL;DR: Ffective clinical management of STDs represent an important combined strategy necessary to improve reproductive and sexual health and to improve HIV prevention efforts, especially relevant to women, adolescents, and infants.
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Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2003.
Jo Anne Grunbaum,Laura Kann,Steve Kinchen,James G. Ross,Joseph Hawkins,Richard Lowry,William A. Harris,Tim McManus,David Chyen,Janet L. Collins +9 more
TL;DR: Results from the 2003 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey demonstrate that the majority of risk behaviors associated with these two causes of death are initiated during adolescence, and education and health officials at national, state, and local levels are using these data to improve policies and programs to reduce priority health-risk behaviors among youth.
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Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 in the United States, 1976 to 1994
D T Fleming,Geraldine M. McQuillan,Robert E. Johnson,Andre J. Nahmias,Sevgi O. Aral,Francis K. Lee,M E St Louis +6 more
TL;DR: The seroprevalence of HSV-2 in persons 12 years of age or older in the United States was 21.9 percent (95 percent confidence interval, 20.2 to 23.6 percent), corresponding to 45 million infected people in the noninstitutionalized civilian population.
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Application of the Theory of Gender and Power to Examine HIV-Related Exposures, Risk Factors, and Effective Interventions for Women
TL;DR: An extended version of the theory of gender and power is applied to examine the exposures, social/behavioral risk factors, and biological properties that increase women’s vulnerability for acquiring HIV.
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Parental Monitoring: Association With Adolescents' Risk Behaviors
Ralph J. DiClemente,Gina M. Wingood,Richard A. Crosby,Catlainn Sionean,Brenda K. Cobb,Kathy Harrington,Susan L. Davies,Edward W. Hook,M. Kim Oh +8 more
TL;DR: The findings demonstrate a consistent pattern of health risk behaviors and adverse biological outcomes associated with less perceived parental monitoring and additional research needs to focus on developing theoretical models that help explain the influence of familial environment on adolescent health.