Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV risk behavior in adolescents compared with adults in Arad county
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Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV risk behavior in adolescents compared with adults in Arad county
Background Young people are exposed to numerous risk behaviors that can affect their present life and perspectives as adults. Commonly risk behaviors for them are: regular smoking, more than 5 glasses of alcohol in the last month, attempted suicide in the past year, marijuana use in the past month, consumption of other illicit drugs in the last year and unprotected sex at any time of life, resu...
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Introduction Sexually active adolescents are the group at greatest risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections.' 2 The adverse sequelae that occur as a consequence of some of these infections are particularly devastating in the very young. Teenagers have their entire reproductive future at risk and jeopardise their fertility by infection. Chronic viral infections with long latent periods ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-s1-p85