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Older adults’ understandings of risks for sexually transmitted infections are influenced by a complexity of factors

Karen Lorimer August 22, 2016 blog, featured

It’s not just young people who have sex; we know from studies that older adults have sex too. But do we know enough about how they understand risks? We spoke to older adults to ask them about their understandings and negotiations of ‘risks’ for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It became clear that ideas about ‘risk’ depended on a range of what we call psycho-social factors – those related t... »

Older adults, pregnancy, STIs

Round-up: 19th Feb 2016

Karen Lorimer February 19, 2016 Roundups

Published journal articles Adolescent sexual health: time to invest in a healthy future generation Vicky Jespers, Christiana Nöstlinger, Janneke van de Wijgert STI (Editorial) Reproductive health Applying the pre-intentional phase of the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) Model to investigate factors associated with intention on consistent condom use with various types of female sex partners am... »

adolescents, condom, Hep C, HIV, HPV, Older adults, pregnancy, technologies, testing

Round-up: 5 Feb 2016

Karen Lorimer February 5, 2016 Roundups

Published journal articles Culture ‘I won’t be able to go home being pregnant’: sex work and pregnancy in Dhaka, Bangladesh Karen R. Katz, Misti McDowell, Laura Johnson & Sultana Aziz Culture, Health & Sexuality Reproductive health Dual contraceptive method use and pregnancy intention among people living with HIV receiving HIV care at six hospitals in Thailand Munsakul W et al. Reproductiv... »

abortion, Chlamydia, consent, drugs, HIV, HPV, PID, pregnancy, sex workers, systematic review, testing

Round-up 22 January 2016

Karen Lorimer January 22, 2016 Roundups

Published journal articles Technologies/social media Young men who have sex with men’s use of social and sexual media and sex-risk associations: cross-sectional, online survey across four countries Karen Lorimer, Paul Flowers, Mark Davis, Jamie Frankis STI (online first) Substance use Substance use and sexual risk behaviors among Peruvian MSM social media users Young, Sean D.; Nianogo, Roch ... »

condom, HPV, MSM, PID, pregnancy, PrEP, sex workers, substance use, Syphilis, technologies, testing, violence, young people

Round-up: 8 Jan 2016

Karen Lorimer January 8, 2016 Roundups

Published journal articles HIV Uptake of services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a community cohort in rural Tanzania from 2005 to 2012 Gourlay A, Wringe A, Todd J, Cawley C, Michael D, Machemba R, Clark B, Masesa C, Marston M, Urassa M, Zaba B BMC Health Services Research 2016, 16 :4 – open access Temporal trends in death causes in adults attending an urban HIV cli... »

adolescents, Chlamydia, methods issues, pregnancy, PrEP, stigma, testing, violence

Weekly Round-up of published articles and news – 27th Nov 2015

admin November 27, 2015 Roundups

Published journal articles An outbreak of high-level azithromycin resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in England Stephanie A Chisholm, Janet Wilson, Sarah Alexander, Francesco Tripodo, Ali Al-Shahib, Ulf Schaefer, Kieren Lythgow, Helen Fifer STI (online first) ‘Eh! I felt I was sabotaged!’: facilitators’ understandings of success in a participatory HIV and IPV prevention intervention in urban South Af... »

AMR, circumcision, contraception, couples, ethics, HIV, HPV, LGBT, MSM, peers, pregnancy, sex workers, technologies

Weekly Round-up of published research and news – 20th Nov 2015

Karen Lorimer November 20, 2015 Roundups

Published journal articles Taking culture seriously in biomedical HIV prevention trials: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies Clara Rubincam, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan & Peter A. Newman Expert Review of Vaccines Short-term administration of disulfiram for reversal of latent HIV infection: a phase 2 dose-escalation study Julian H Elliott, James H McMahon, Christina C Chang, Sulggi A Lee, Wendy H... »

abortion, chemsex, condom, digital media, drugs, HIV, MSM, partner notification, POC tests, pregnancy, technologies

Weekly Round-up of recent sexual health publications and news – 11 Sept 15

Karen Lorimer September 11, 2015 Roundups

Published journal articles Denominators count: supplementing surveillance data for genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection with testing data, Norway, 2007 to 2013 Eurosurveillance The HIV care continuum among men who have sex with men in Moscow, Russia: a cross-sectional study of infection awareness and engagement in care A L Wirtz, C E Zelaya, C Latkin, A Peryshkina, N Galai, V Mogilniy, P Dzhigu... »

abortion, alcohol, Chlamydia, condom, HIV, Masculinity, MSM, policy, pregnancy, stigma, substance use, technologies, young people

Round-up of sexual health articles and news – 28 August 2015

Karen Lorimer August 28, 2015 Roundups

Published journal articles Reproductive health Views of general practitioners on providing contraceptive advice and long-acting reversible contraception at the 6-week postnatal visit: a qualitative study Hannah Lunniss, Sharon Cameron, Zhong E Chen Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care Continuing pregnancy after mifepristone and “reversal” of first-trimester medical aborti... »

abortion, contraception, HIV, HPV, pregnancy, PrEP, stigma, violence, young people

Weekly Round-up of sexual health articles and news – 12th June 2015

Karen Lorimer June 12, 2015 Roundups

Published journal articles Cost-effectiveness of a repeat HIV test in pregnancy in India Smita Joshi, Vinay Kulkarni, Raman Gangakhedkar, Uma Mahajan, Sushma Sharma, Devendra Shirole, Nomita Chandhiok BMJ Open (open access) Women and HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges in the Road Ahead Helen Land Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services Identifying HIV-Infected Women’s Psychosocial Stressors: ... »

condom, contraception, HIV, pregnancy, PrEP, sex workers, stigma, young people

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