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Accidental Exposures And Kap Surveys Concerning Theuniversal Precaution Among The Clinical-Year Medicalstudents Of Faculty Of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Narin Hiransuthikul, Mayuri Chiravisit, Chokchai Plianpairoj Oct 1997

Accidental Exposures And Kap Surveys Concerning Theuniversal Precaution Among The Clinical-Year Medicalstudents Of Faculty Of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Narin Hiransuthikul, Mayuri Chiravisit, Chokchai Plianpairoj

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.


In The Affirmative, Vol.4, No.8 (Mid-September / Mid-October 1997), Mike Martin, The Aids Project Sep 1997

In The Affirmative, Vol.4, No.8 (Mid-September / Mid-October 1997), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.


Condom Availability In New York City Public High Schools: Relationships To Condom Use And Sexual Behavior., Sally Guttmacher, Lisa D. Lieberman, David Ward, Nick Freudenberg, Alice Radosh, Don Des Jarlais Sep 1997

Condom Availability In New York City Public High Schools: Relationships To Condom Use And Sexual Behavior., Sally Guttmacher, Lisa D. Lieberman, David Ward, Nick Freudenberg, Alice Radosh, Don Des Jarlais

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

OBJECTIVES: This study examines the impact of the condom availability program in New York City public high schools by comparing rates of sexual activity and condom use for New York students and similar students in Chicago.

METHODS: A total of 7119 students from 12 randomly selected New York schools and 5738 students from 10 Chicago schools participated in a cross-sectional survey.

RESULTS: New York students, compared with Chicago students, reported equal rates of sexual activity but higher rates of condom use at last intercourse (odds ratio [OR] = 1.36). For higher-risk students (those with three or more sexual partners in …


Attitudes Toward Sexuality And Sexual Behaviors Of Asian-American Adolescents: Implications For Risk Of Hiv Infection, Connie S. Chan Sep 1997

Attitudes Toward Sexuality And Sexual Behaviors Of Asian-American Adolescents: Implications For Risk Of Hiv Infection, Connie S. Chan

Institute for Asian American Studies Publications

Until 1990, Asian Americans represented an ethnic minority group that was perceived to be at lower risk than African Americans or Hispanics/Latinos for HIV infection, the presumed causal agent for AIDS. Reasons cited for this perception include behavioral differences in intravenous drug use, sexual behavioral habits, and underidentification of AIDS cases. However, in urban areas such as San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Seattle, where Asians have immigrated and settled in large numbers, cases of HIV infection and AIDS have begun to increase dramatically, perhaps reflecting the rise in the number of AIDS cases in Asia. In …


Book Review Of Global Aids Policy (Douglas A. Feldman, Ed.; Bergin & Garvey 1994), Devin Morgan Jun 1997

Book Review Of Global Aids Policy (Douglas A. Feldman, Ed.; Bergin & Garvey 1994), Devin Morgan

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of the book Global AIDS Policy (Douglas A. Feldman, ed.; Bergin & Garvey 1994). About the editor and contributors, index, introduction, preface, references. LC 94-2850; ISBN 0-89789-412-YK [250 pp. $18.95 paper; $65.00 cloth. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.]


In The Affirmative, Vol.4, No.5 (Mid-May/Mid-June1997), Mike Martin, The Aids Project May 1997

In The Affirmative, Vol.4, No.5 (Mid-May/Mid-June1997), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.


Aids News As Risk Communication, Admassu Tassew Jan 1997

Aids News As Risk Communication, Admassu Tassew

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Reports on a study of AIDS prevention stories in four prestige dailies, two in Europe and two in Africa, over an eight-year period.