Unsafe Sex
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Health system and personal barriers resulting in decreased utilization of HIV and STD testing services among at-risk black men who have sex with men in Massachusetts.

29 Sep 2009 Testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD) remains a cornerstone of public health prevention interventions. This analysis was designed to explore the frequency of testing, as well as health system and personal barriers to testing, ... Read more...

Egocentric networks of Chinese men who have sex with men: network components, condom use norms, and safer sex.

29 Sep 2009 Research on risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) is often based on individualistic models of health behavior, but sexual behavior is inherently social in nature and often determined by constituents of social networks. The objective ... Read more...

Changes in at-risk behavior for HIV infection among HIV-positive persons in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Many HIV-positive persons reportedly continue to engage in at-risk behavior. We compared the sexual and drug-using practices of HIV-positive persons before and after the diagnosis of HIV infection to determine whether their behavior had changed. To ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Unsafe Sex'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Male circumcision for prevention of HIV transmission. 29 Oct 2009
• Health system and personal barriers resulting in decreased utilization of HIV and STD testing services among at-risk black men who have sex with men in Massachusetts. 29 Sep 2009
• Egocentric networks of Chinese men who have sex with men: network components, condom use norms, and safer sex. 29 Sep 2009
• Changes in at-risk behavior for HIV infection among HIV-positive persons in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• Risk assessment and screening for sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and hepatitis virus among long-distance truck drivers in New Mexico, 2004-2006. 15 Sep 2009
• Hepatitis B immunization coverage and risk behaviour among Danish travellers: are immunization strategies based on single journey itineraries rational? Sep 2009
• Concurrent sexual partnerships and racial disparities in HIV infection among men who have sex with men. 30 Aug 2009
• How do social norms impact HIV sexual risk behavior in HIV-positive men who have sex with men?: multiple mediator effects. 30 Aug 2009
• Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students. 30 Aug 2009
• Sexual mixing patterns and heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans in the southeastern United States. 30 Aug 2009
• High HIV prevalence detected in 2006 and 2007 among men who have sex with men in China's largest municipality: an alarming epidemic in Chongqing, China. 30 Aug 2009
• Preinfection human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes failed to prevent HIV type 1 infection from strains genetically unrelated to viruses in long-term exposed partners. 10 Aug 2009
• Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers. 9 Aug 2009
• Beyond the "model minority" stereotype: trends in health risk behaviors among Asian/Pacific Islander high school students. 30 Jul 2009
• Sibling relationship, family, and genetic factors in sibling similarity in sexual risk. 30 Jul 2009
• Recurrent lumbosacral herpes simplex in two men. 30 Jul 2009
• "Someone naughty for tonight": sex partner recruitment venues and associated STI risk. 30 Jul 2009
• Gender differences in high risk sexual behaviors and injection practices associated with perceived HIV risk among injection drug users. 30 Jul 2009
• Unseen and unheard: predictors of sexual risk behavior and HIV infection among men who have sex with men in Chennai, India. 30 Jul 2009
• Exploring HIV prevention utilization among female sex workers and male-to-female transgenders. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Unsafe Sex'

Definition: Sexual behaviors which are high-risk for contracting SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES or for producing PREGNANCY.

Descriptor UI: D047568

Alternative terms: Unsafe Sex; Sex, Unsafe; High-Risk Sex; High Risk Sex; Sex, High-Risk; Unprotected Sex; Sex, Unprotected;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; ethnology; history; prevention & control; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F01.145.802.987;

History Note: 2005; use SAFE SEX 2001-2004