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Changes in contraceptive and sexual behaviours among unmarried young people in Nigeria: Evidence from nationally representative surveys.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ContextNigeria is a high-burden country in terms of young people's health. Understanding changes in young people's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) behaviours and the associated factors is important for framing appropriate interventions.ObjectiveThis
Sunday A Adedini, Jacob Wale Mobolaji, Matthew Alabi, Adesegun O Fatusi   +3 more
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Adolescents’ risky sexual behaviours and practices: Implications for sexuality education implementation in Zambia

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Background: Adolescents’ risky sexual behaviours (RSB) are detrimental to their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) well-being and present a serious public health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Aim: This study aims to assess RSB among Grade 12 school-going adolescents after exposure to comprehensive sexuality ...
Bright Mukanga, Siyabonga B. Dlamini, Ngoy Mwanabute, Myra Taylor   +3 more
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Sexual harassment in South African Schools: Is there an association with risky sexual behaviours?

South African Journal of Child Health, 2018
Background. Several drivers of risky sexual behaviour are known, although research has not yet examined the relationship between experiences of sexual harassment at school and risky sexual behaviours among adolescents. Objective. To examine the association between peer- and teacher-perpetrated sexual harassment and risky sexual behaviours among ...
Mabetha, K, de Wet, N
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Interrogating the immune landscape of microsatellite stable RAS‐mutated colon cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
COLOSSUS project RAS‐mutated MSS colon cancer study explored transcriptomics and immune cell density by immunohistochemistry (IHC), Immunoscore (IS), ISIC/TuLIS scores, mutation counts, and detected different prevalences but similar microenvironment composition across immune markers with clinical relevance for future immunotherapy combination ...
Rodrigo Dienstmann, Eduardo García‐Galea, Alice O'Farrell, Zak Kinsella, Maxime Meylan, Florent Petitprez, Ingrid Arijs, Tom Venken, Hari Ps, Adrian Lärkeryd, Ian Miller, Janick Selves, Nadja Meindl‐Beinker, Fiorella Ruiz‐Pace, Elena Élez, Raquel Comas‐Navarro, Frank Lincoln, Dirk Fey, Gift Nyamundanda, Aoife Nolan, Joern Lewin, Raquel Perez‐Lopez, Jonathan Briody, Kathleen Bennett, Walter Kolch, David Matallanas, Alexander Kel, Enrique Arenas, Joaquín Arribas, Bart Ghesquière, Josep Tabernero, Julie Meilleroux, Deborah McNamara, Ray McDermott, Marvin Lim, Mary O'Reilly, Brian Bird, Lisa Stack, Lucia Moloney, Patrick Morris, Keith Egan, Maciej Milewski, Lars Scheuer, Joachim Behringer, Georg Bolz, Ramon Salazar, Cristina Santos, Andrea Ruiz, Orla Casey, Verena Murphy, Matthias Ebert, Livio Trusolino, Diether Lambrechts, Anguraj Sadanandam, Catherine Sautès‐Fridman, Jochen Prehn, Paolo Nuciforo, Jacques Fieschi, Florence Monville, Darran O'Connor, Wolf Fridman, Annette Byrne   +61 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge and behavioural factors associated with gender gap in acquiring HIV among youth in Uganda

Journal of Public Health Research, 2015
Background. The increasing prevalence of HIV in Uganda during the last decade (7.5% in 2004-05 to 8.3% in 2011 among women and 5.0% in 2004-05 to 6.1% among men in 2011 of 15 to 49 years) clearly shows that women are disproportionately affected by HIV ...
Shraboni Patra, Rakesh Kumar Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Social Media Use on Sexual Behaviour of Undergraduate Students in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Interdisciplinary Journal of Education, 2020
Despite the fact that social media enhances learning opportunities and increases access to information, it has also paved way for exposure to illicit sexual content online and misuse of social sites which has been linked to risky sexual behaviour among ...
Olayinka A Onasoga, Joel A Aluko, Nisola Sweet Adegbuyi, Adeniyi A Filade, Halima I. B. Shittu   +4 more
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Deciphering transcriptional plasticity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma reveals alterations in sensory neuron innervation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pancreatic sensory neurons innervating healthy and PDAC tissue were retrogradely labeled and profiled by single‐cell RNA sequencing. Tumor‐associated innervation showed a dominant neurofilament‐positive subtype, altered mitochondrial gene signatures, and reduced non‐peptidergic neurons.
Elena Genova, Michele Montrone, Uday Rangaswamy, Francesco Diversi, Irene Schiavo, Denise Ferrarini, Roberta Di Florio, Irene Longo, Michele Coscia, Nicola Zamboni, Giorgia Demontis, Lisa Veghini, Vincenzo Corbo, Remo Sanges, Paul Heppenstall   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sexual risk compensation following voluntary medical male circumcision: Results from a prospective cohort study amongst human immunodeficiency virus-negative adult men in Botswana

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2020
Background: Circumcised men may increase sexual risk-taking following voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) because of decreased perceptions of risk, which may negate the beneficial impact of VMMC in preventing new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Lisa P. Spees, Kathleen E. Wirth, Shreshth Mawandia, Semo Bazghina-werq, Jenny H. Ledikwe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A lifetime portfolio of risky and risk-free sexual behaviour and the prevalence of AIDS [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 2002
A lifetime portfolio of risky and risk-free sexual activities is conceptually constructed in this paper. People's time allocation between risky and risk-free sexual activities affects, and is affected by, the prevalence of AIDS. A small satisfaction differential between risky and risk-free sex can lead to a significant prevalence of AIDS.
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Barriers to sexual health services for young people in Nepal

, 2010
Although sexual and reproductive health education and services are provided to young people, current rates of HIV infection and pregnancy are increasing in Nepal, indicating that young people do not always use sexual health services.
Simkhada, Padam, Dev Raj Acharya, Padam Simkhada, Edwin Van Teijlingen, Pramod R Regmi, van Teijlingen, Edwin, Teijlingen, Edwin van, Regmi, Pramod, Regmi, Pramod R., Acharya, Dev Raj   +9 more
core   +1 more source