Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Kenyan Adolescent Girls and Young Women With Limited Sexual Experience
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Sexually transmitted infections in adolescent women.
Adolescent women possess physiologic and, frequently, behavioral characteristics that place them at an increased risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections. Diagnosis and prompt treatment of sexually transmitted infections is of paramount importance for an adolescent's future fertility and prevention of transmission to future partners. Diagnosis and treatment is often hindered by lack...
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Department of Reproductive Health and Research and UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland; Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37203 USA; University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine and British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Va...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Public Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2296-2565
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00303