BACKGROUND The objective of this review was to investigate whether Chinese population groups that do not belong to classical high risk groups show an increasing trend of engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors. METHODS We systematically searched the English and Chinese literature on sexual risk behaviors published between January 1980 and March 2012 in PubMed and the China National Knowledge I...

BACKGROUND Abstinence-plus (comprehensive) interventions promote sexual abstinence as the best means of preventing HIV, but also encourage condom use and other safer-sex practices. Some critics of abstinence-plus programs have suggested that promoting safer sex along with abstinence may undermine abstinence messages or confuse program participants; conversely, others have suggested that promoti...

BACKGROUND Understanding sexual behavior before marriage is relatively rare in the East, especially in Islamic societies, because sexuality is a sensitive subject for many Muslims. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify premarital sexual intercourse-related individual factors among Iranian adolescents. PATIENTS AND METHODS This qualitative study was performed on 30 students of...

Family environment is one of the most influential factors on youth sexual behavior but has received little investigation in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, a comprehensive understanding of family influences could improve the efficiency of reproductive health (RH) interventions. Using retrospective data from a population-based survey, life-table analysis was utilized to compute the median age at premar...

The causes of large variation in the sizes of HIV epidemics among countries in sub-Saharan Africa are not well understood. Here we assess the potential roles of late age at marriage and a long period of premarital sexual activity as population risk factors, using ecological data from 33 sub-Saharan African countries and with individual-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in Ken...

BACKGROUND The pre-marital sex and live-in relationship among young people are increasing at an alarming rate. Remote consequences of such high risk behaviors are increase in the incidence of STDs (including HIV), unsafe and illegal abortion, adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, single mother child/abandoned child, juvenile delinquency and many more. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to in...

conclusions this study can help find a culturally appropriate intervention to delay sexual initiation and prevent sexual behavior before marriage in adolescents and young adults. the results of the present study have both experimental and theoretical implications for future research. finally, this study is a form of shared experience that can help similar studies. results the study included 30 ...

INTRODUCTION Religion, by definition, is a conservative force based upon a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. These beliefs are mainly based on traditions involving scriptures, prophecy and revelations that have been incorporated into the theories behind a particular religion. The difficulty with religion and traditional beliefs is that they are slow to cha...

InformatIon collected from male and female respondents m a rural Ghanalan town suggests that, although people strongly favour the spacmg of children. actual spdcmg IS not the mtentlonal result of birthcontrol or sexual abstmence but rather a comcldental result of a long period of postpartum amenorrhea caused by prolonged lactation