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Middle school youth are engaging in sexual intercourse as early as age 12, according to a study by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health.Results from this study are published in the April issue of Journal of School Health.Christine Markham, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral science at the UT School of Public Health, and colleagues examined sexual risk behaviors among middle school students in a large southeastern U.S. urban public school district."This is one...
A study of young black men who have sex with men, in the Jackson, Miss., area shows many common risk behaviors, federal health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report said that black men who have sex with men ages 17-25 in the Jackson area who were recently diagnosed with HIV completed surveys about their risk and HIV testing habits, and many had three risk behaviors in common, including: having unprotected anal intercourse;...
The incidence of heterosexual anal sex is increasing among teens and young adults -- a sexually transmitted disease and HIV risk factor, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center in Providence said these findings mirror recent data that show anal sex rates among adults doubled from 1995 to 2004. The topic of anal intercourse is often considered taboo -- especially when discussed in the context of youth relationships -- even though we know that this...
A new study of U.S. teens' sexual behavior found evidence to disprove the notion that many teens try to substitute oral sex for intercourse in order to stay "technically" virgins.In fact, oral sex was more commonly reported by teens that also had engaged in vaginal sex.Slightly more than half (55 percent) of teen participants said they had engaged in oral sex, but teens reported beginning vaginal and oral sex at about the same time. By six months after first vaginal intercourse, 82...
By Natalie ArmstrongTORONTO (Reuters) - AIDS is "spiraling out of control" in Asia among men who have sex with other men, activists warned on Tuesday -- and the epidemic is likely to spread because many of these men also marry or have sex with women.And because the issue of homosexual sex is taboo in many Asian cultures, these men are difficult to identify and reach through public health campaigns, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or AmFAR, and a group called TREAT Asia...
By Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Young women risk being infected with Chlamydia more than once, researchers reported on Tuesday in a series of studies showing just how vulnerable younger women are to the disease. But other studies presented at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention STD prevention conference showed that screening people can reduce the rate of infection across entire communities. The findings also show that younger women are more susceptible to and do not...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heterosexual men are more likely to engage in high-risk sex if they use methamphetamine, or "meth," according to results of a study conducted in California.Previous studies have linked meth use, risky sexual behavior and increased incidence of HIV infection among gay men. However, there have been few studies looking at these same issues among straight men, despite the growing burden of HIV among heterosexuals.Dr. C. S. Krawczyk, from the California...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The number of U.S. syphilis cases rose for the fourth straight year in 2004, fueled by increases among men, while the gonorrhea disease rate reached a historic low, federal health researchers said on Tuesday. The annual report on sexually transmitted diseases (STD) by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also showed a rise in chlamydia cases, but the increase is believed to reflect better screening and not a rise in new infections. The rate of primary...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The number of U.S. syphilis cases rose for the fourth straight year in 2004, fueled by increases among men, while the gonorrhea disease rate reached a historic low, federal health researchers said on Tuesday. The annual report on sexually transmitted diseases (STD) by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also showed a rise in chlamydia cases, but the increase is believed to reflect better screening and not a rise in new infections. The rate of primary...
Experts warn more teens at risk for sexually transmitted diseasesAbout 12 percent of males and 10 percent of females aged 15-to-19 have participated in oral sex with a member of the opposite sex, possibly to delay sexual intercourse, a new federal survey has found. The findings, released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disclosed that these teenagers had not had vaginal intercourse. But by the time they are 22 to 24 -- when most individuals have already had...
