Sexual risk behaviour among school-going adolescents in Sierra Leone and Liberia: a secondary analysis of the 2017 Global school-based student health surveys [PDF]
Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2022 Background Sierra Leone and Liberia have experienced civil wars and, recently, Ebola outbreaks that led to profound economic hardship, psychopathologies and family disruptions.
Peter Bai James +4 more
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Correlations between drug use, HIV disclosure and interpersonal communication on sexual risk behaviour of HIV-positive men who have sex with men [PDF]
BMC Proceedings, 2020 Background The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic is a global health problem whose number of cases are always higher among men who have sex with men (MSM). Most existing MSM have moderate and very high risk behaviour in HIV transmission.
Lussy Afriyanti, Agung Waluyo, Sri Yona
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Sexual risk behaviour and its correlates among adolescents in Mozambique: results from a national school survey in 2015 [PDF]
SAHARA-J, 2021 The study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of sexual risk behaviours among adolescents in Mozambique. In the cross-sectional ‘Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS)’, 1918 students aged 11–18 years from Mozambique responded to a ...
Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer
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“My partner was not fond of using condoms and I was not on contraception”: understanding adolescent mothers’ perspectives of sexual risk behaviour in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Adolescent pregnancy has been a persistent area of interest and concern in the field of public health. The debate about adolescents’ sexual risk behaviour has also gained prominence due to findings that have demonstrated that adolescent girls ...
Desiree Govender +2 more
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Influence of socio-contextual factors on the link between traditional and new media use, and young people’s sexual risk behaviour in Sub-Saharan Africa: a secondary data analysis [PDF]
Reproductive HealthBackground Traditional and new media use links to young people’s sexual risk behaviour. The social contexts of young people’s daily lives that influence media use and sexual risk behaviour are often investigated as independent causal mechanisms.
Helen Uche Okoye, Elizabeth Saewyc
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Association between risky sexual behaviour and HIV risk perception among in-school adolescents in a municipality in Ghana [PDF]
Ghana Medical Journal, 2019 Background: Studies considering the association between adolescents’ risky sexual behaviour and how they perceive themselves to be at risk of HIV infection are scares in Ghana.
James Afriyie, Maame E. Essilfie
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Sexual behaviour and risk of sexually transmitted infections in young female healthcare students in Spain [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Background. Several authors have examined the risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI), but no study has yet analyzed it solely in relation with sexual behaviour in women.
Felipe Navarro-Cremades +7 more
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European Review Of Applied Sociology, 2020 The study examined the influence of impulsivity on undergraduates’ sexual risk behaviour and also scrutinized the mediating roles of family type and peer pressure on undergraduates’ sexual risk behaviour in Southwestern Nigeria.
Ekundayo Opeyemi Oyewunmi +1 more
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Association of high-risk sexual behaviour with diversity of the vaginal microbiota and abundance of Lactobacillus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 To compare the vaginal microbiota of women engaged in high-risk sexual behaviour (sex work) with women who are not engaged in high-risk sexual behaviour.
Jocelyn M Wessels +13 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Perception of risk is a central construct of models of health behaviour change as it is assumed to be an intermediate step before adoption of the related safer behaviour.
Takwanisa Machemedze
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