Purpose: Public health risk reduction efforts commonly focus on avoiding multiple-partner relationships, as they can be associated with increased sexual risk behaviors (e[...]

Purpose: First vaginal sex is constructed as a significant event imbued with cultural relevance. Voluminous literature documents cultural, social, religious, and psycholo[...]

Purpose: To evaluate relationship and behavioral predictors of attitudes towards contraceptive versus non-contraceptive microbicides among young women.

Purpose: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy emphasizes the importance of linkage to care (LTC) for newly diagnosed persons. However, 30% or more of newly diagnosed youth are [...]

Purpose: Clinic-specific factors, including physical space and staff characteristics, are associated with linkage to care and engagement in care for newly diagnosed HIV-p[...]

Purpose: Teen pregnancy and birth continue to be major public health issues in the United States, particularly in urban centers with various related issues (e.g., poverty[...]

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The goal of this study is to develop an effective and efficient STI preventive intervention among college students following the principles and [...]

Purpose: The provision of uninterrupted care as youth with HIV transition from pediatric and adolescent to adult HIV care is essential as disengagement from care has impl[...]

Purpose: To assess attitudes toward vaginal microbicides for sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention and stability of those attitudes over a 3-month period among [...]

Purpose: Vaginal microbicides are proposed as woman-controlled, potentially surreptitious methods of STD prevention. However, little is known about how such products are [...]

Purpose: After significant decline since the early 1990's, rates of teen births in Baltimore increased in 2005 and 2006. Despite a slight rate decrease (from 66.4 to 63.7[...]

Due to high cervical cancer rates and limited research on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptability in India, the research team examined parental attitudes toward [...]

Study Objective Although underutilized, the vaginal contraceptive ring has several advantages over other contraceptive methods that could benefit adolescents. We examined[...]

Promoting a "broad view of health" is an important objective of the healthy cities movement, including recognition of the powerful role that social relations and living c[...]

SUMMARY As part of an evaluation of the California Healthy Cities and Communities (CHCC) Program, we assessed the extent to which coalitions implementing the healthy citi[...]

Purpose: The HIV Care Continuum highlights the need for HIV-infected youth to be tested, linked, and maintained in lifelong care. Care engagement is important for HIV-inf[...]

It is important for both individual- and population-level health that HIV-infected individuals progress through the Care Continuum. However, HIV-infected youth frequently[...]

Sexuality education (sex education) is recognized as one of the most effective ways to address adolescent sexual health needs. However, limited research exists on how ind[...]

Many evaluation studies assess the direct effect of an intervention on individuals, but there is an increasing interest in clarifying how interventions can impact larger [...]

There has been little systematic study of the impact of support groups on the psychological well-being (PWB) of adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD). Questionnaires[...]

Increases in substance use prevalence among girls, as well as a lack of research conducted with urban girls of color, highlight the importance of understanding both predi[...]

The effectiveness of dietary changes as a means of reducing blood lipid levels and ultimately controlling the development of coronary heart disease has been debated for m[...]

Recently, time-series correlations of aggregated data have been used to demonstrate the length of latency periods for environmental factors, such as economic conditions a[...]

Objectives: All-hazards preparedness was evaluated in North Carolina's 85 local health departments (LHDs). Methods: In regional meetings, data were collected from LHD tea[...]

Purpose To examine, from a youth's perspective, adolescent pregnancy and parenting in Baltimore, Maryland, a city with high rates of adolescent pregnancy. Methods Six gen[...]