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Characteristics, sexual behaviour and risk factors of female, male and transgender sex workers in South Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Background. In South Africa, information on sex workers' characteristics, sexual behaviour and health needs is limited. Current social, legal and institutional factors impede a safe working environment for sex workers and their clients. Objectives.
Chersich, Matthew +3 more
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Hepatitis B knowledge and associated factors among people with chronic hepatitis B
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015 Objective: To assess hepatitis B knowledge among people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Australia. Methods: People with CHB in three Australian jurisdictions completed a self‐administered questionaire, including 24 hepatitis B knowledge questions ...
Behzad Hajarizadeh +4 more
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Development and validation of PozQoL: a scale to assess quality of life of PLHIV
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Advances in medical treatment for HIV are driving major changes in HIV policy and practice, including the encouragement of intake and adherence to HIV antiretroviral treatment (ART) by people living with HIV (PLHIV) for both personal and ...
Graham Brown +8 more
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Screened Out: Women with Disabilities and Preventive Health
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2007 This paper explores the lived experience of women with disabilities in relation to preventative health. It is based on qualitative research in Australia involving 25 individual interviews and 4 focus groups with women with disabilities about their ...
Kelley Johnson +3 more
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Child sex tourism – prevalence of and risk factors for its use in a German community sample
BMC Public Health, 2017 Background To investigate the prevalence of child sex tourism (CST) in a large German community sample, and to compare those who made use of CST with other child sexual abusers regarding established characteristics and risk factors for child sexual abuse.
Thula Koops +3 more
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013 Objective: General Practitioners (GPs) are essential to reducing the impact of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) given their clinical management role where only 56% of people with the infection in Australia have been diagnosed.
Jack Wallace +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2020 If left unrepaired, meiotic DSBs are toxic to mammalian cells, thus oocytes in which DSBs persist are eliminated by the DNA-damage checkpoint. Here the authors provide insights into the roles of PUMA, NOXA and BAX during DNA damage checkpoint that ...
Elias ElInati +11 more
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Heredity, 2002 Sex ratio theory attempts to explain variation at all levels (species, population, individual, brood) in the proportion of offspring that are male (the sex ratio). In many cases this work has been extremely successful, providing qualitative and even quantitative explanations of sex ratio variation.
West, Stuart A +2 more
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Stem Cell Research, 2014 Background: Ovarian teratocarcinoma (OVTC) arises from germ cells and contains a high percentage of cancer stem/progenitor cells (CSPCs), which promote cancer development through their ability to self-renew.
Wei-Min Chung +6 more
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Sex dimorphism of weight and length at birth: evidence based on disorders of sex development
Annals of Human Biology, 2022 Background Males have higher weight and length at birth than females. Aim To verify the influence of the Y chromosome and the action of intrauterine androgens on weight and length at birth of children with Disorders of Sex Development (DSD). Subjects and
D.S.R. Amais +15 more
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