OBJECTIVES To evaluate quality of sexual debut and first marriage data, measure trends and study the association of risky sexual behaviour in youth with adult risk behaviour. METHODS Reports on age at first sex (AFS) and age at first marriage (AFM) from the Kisesa cohort study, 1994-2004, were evaluated for consistency and used to describe trends in median age-at-event and time spent single b...

Immunological thought is exerting a growing effect in cancer research, correcting a divorce that occurred in the mainstream of the field decades ago just as cancer genetics began to emerge as a dominant movement. Today, with a general consensus on the significance of epigenetics, the inflammatory cancer microenvironment and the immune response in determining cancer pathophysiology, a new synthe...

The antiquities of Jammu and Kashmir reveal that women might have enjoyed a high status as elsewhere in India. But ,there was a marked deterioration in the position of women. Female children were not much desired and their sufferings became endless with the beginning of inroads of Turko-Afghan tribes for whom carrying away of women formed the prized item of booty. This situation gave new dimens...

Incredible as it may seem, we can no longer assume that people in our culture understand what the proper definition of “marriage” and “the family” is. Not only is this a sad commentary on the impact of same-sex marriage activists on our society, it also shows how the culture’s memory of the biblical tradition on which it is largely based is fading fast. What is marriage, biblically defined? And...

Background: Discordance has always been a bane in the efforts to stop spread of HIV within population as it creates gap through which re-infection occurs. Knowing demographics associated with discordance will help fight against AIDS transmission. Objectives: The study was conducted assess demographic and social factors among HIV- infected couples. Methods: A total 158 couples 317 individuals we...

This paper examines the relationship between female entrepreneurship and environmental implications in ASEAN economies. While economic growth affluence benefit society, they come at cost of degradation, particularly rising carbon dioxide levels ecosystem concerns. Women entrepreneurs Southeast Asia can potentially support their families contribute to societal development by starting own busines...

Abstract Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of emotional financial engagements. The latest reform the Danish Inheritance Act in 2008 was an attempt to cope legal challenges posed by regard inheritance. solution grant surviving spouse greater rights as well a share estate, thus favouring horizontal conjugal bond between current spouses. S...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have indicated that married people have lower mortality and are generally healthier. Most previous studies have been cross-sectional and few studies investigated the effect of marital transition on health. With a prospective design and repeated measures of variables, we sought to analyse the temporal relation between marital transition and change in health behaviours...

BACKGROUND Sentinel surveillance for HIV in ante-natal clinics (ANC) remains the primary method for collecting timely trend data on HIV prevalence in most of sub-Saharan Africa. We describe prevalence of HIV and syphilis infection and trends over time in HIV prevalence among women attending ante-natal clinics (ANC) in Magu district and Mwanza city, part of Mwanza region in Northern Tanzania. HI...