Interactions between substance use and sexual behaviours for women receiving alcohol and other drugs services.
Literature indicates that addressing interactions between substance use and compulsive behaviours can improve outcomes for chemical addiction counselling, mental health and physical health. This paper presents the results of a survey that explored (a) how frequently interactions between problematic sexual behaviour and substance use are presented by women receiving...

Men's condom use in higher-risk sex: trends in five sub-Saharan African countries.
This paper analyses trends in men's condom use at last higher-risk sex (i.e., with a non-marital, non-cohabiting partner) using the two most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in five sub-Saharan African countries: Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Burkina Faso. Condom use is an important method of preventing HW...

An instuitive approach to risky decision making in adolescence.
Would you put a substance into your body that skills most people? Would you do something that your brother and two of the most important adults in your life did that resulted in their deaths? The answer is clearly "no" to both of these questions, if you are thinking...

Reassure parents about vulvovaginal disease.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Spend plenty of time addressing parents' concerns about a child's vulvovaginal disease or their worries may contribute to the problem, Dr. Libby Edwards said at a meeting sponsored by Skin Disease Education Foundation. When a skin lesion, pain, or itching develops in a girl's...

Blacks' HIV Risk Dramatically Higher Than Whites Despite Safer Sex Lives.
Population-Wide Prevention is Vital, Study Suggests CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Young black adults are far more likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease, including HIV, than young white adults, even when they engage in the same or even safer behavior, according to...

Computer-age interviewing.
Women and, to a lesser extent, men attending a Seattle sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic in 2002-2003 were more apt to tell a computer about sensitive behaviors than they were to tell a live interviewer. (1) A total of 609 men and women between the ages of 14 and...

CDC guidelines give options for resistant gonorrhea.
MONTEREY, CALIF. -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guide lines for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases for the first time since 2002. The new guidelines recommend alternatives to drugs that may soon be ineffective for the treatment of gonorrhea or that...

27 Policy: FDA approves vaccine for cervical cancer.
The cervical cancer vaccine--the second vaccine after the hepatitis B vaccine to target a sexually transmitted disease--debuted this year. In June the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine, distributed under the brand name Gardasil, for girls and women ages 9 to 26. The European Union and Australia have...

The battle over the cervical cancer vaccine heats up.
Should adolescent girls be required to get a vaccine for a potentially lethal sexually transmitted disease? State governments around the country will soon have to decide. Merck has developed a vaccine for human papillomavirus, the leading cause of cervical cancer. The vaccine, which may receive FDA approval as early...

Odds of penile HPV are reduced for circumcised men and condom users.
Men who are circumcised and use condoms consistently may have a reduced risk of carrying human papillomavirus (HPV) on their penises. In analyses of data from a public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic in Tucson, (1) HPV was significantly less likely to be detected on the penises of circumcised...