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Michael W. Ross
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Open AccessWould you offer contraception to a 14-year-old girl? Perspectives of health students and professionals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Rates of unplanned adolescent pregnancy and unsafe induced abortions are very high in Sub-Saharan African countries including Tanzania. Despite their availability and accessibility, modern family planning meth...
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Open AccessCultural and clinical challenges in sexual health care provision to men who have sex with men in Tanzania: a qualitative study of health professionals’ experiences and health students’ perspectives
Health care providers across sub-Saharan Africa continue to face challenges while delivering sexual health care services. We explored the experiences, views and challenges of health care professionals and heal...
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Sexual Motivation, Sexual Transactions and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Men who have Sex with Men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Understanding the associations between sexual motivation and sexual risk behaviors of men who have sex with men (MSM) is critical for develo** effective HIV prevention interventions. To examine these associa...
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Use of Latent Class Analysis Approach to Describe Drug and Sexual HIV Risk Patterns among Injection Drug Users in Houston, Texas
Following latent class analysis (LCA) approach we examined patterns of HIV risk using two related domains of behavior: drug use, and sexual activity among 523 injection drug users (IDUs) recruited into the 200...
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Condom Negotiation and Use Among Female Sex Workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
We examined condom-use negotiation strategies and condom use among 81 female sex workers (FSWs) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Percentages of FSWs who did not negotiate condom use or could not describe a negotiation...
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Open AccessDimensions of gender relations and reproductive health inequity perceived by female undergraduate students in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam: a qualitative exploration
Increasing evidence indicates that gender equity has a significant influence on women’s health; yet few culturally specific indicators of gender relations exist which are applicable to health. This study explo...
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Open AccessReliability and validity of the Student Perceptions of School Cohesion Scale in a sample of Salvadoran secondary school students
Despite a growing body of research from the United States and other industrialized countries on the inverse association between supportive social relationships in the school and youth risk behavior engagement,...
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HIV Risk and the Internet: Results of the Men’s INTernet Sex (MINTS) Study
This study assessed the feasibility of online recruitment of high-risk Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) for HIV prevention survey research and investigated the relationship between Internet use and unsaf...
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Conducting Internet-Based HIV/STD Prevention Survey Research: Considerations in Design and Evaluation
The aim of this paper is to advance rigorous Internet-based HIV/STD Prevention quantitative research by providing guidance to fellow researchers, faculty supervising graduates, human subjects’ committees, and ...
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Factors Associated with Suboptimal Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence to Dose, Schedule, and Dietary Instructions
The purpose of this study was to assess the degree of suboptimal antiretroviral therapy adherence to dose, schedule, and dietary instructions and to examine the effects of extra-personal, intra-personal, and i...
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Differences in HIV Risk Behaviors by Gender in a Sample of Tanzanian Injection Drug Users
This study investigated differences in drug use and sexual behaviors among from 237 male and 123 female heroin users in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Multivariate models of risk of needle sharing were estimated usi...
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Spatial bridging in a network of drug-using male sex workers
This study sought to determine whether drug-using male sex workers (MSWs) spatially bridge sexual networks across cities and to determine whether the behaviors of MSWs who bridge differ from the behaviors of t...
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The HIV Medication Self-Reported Nonadherence Reasons (SNAR) Index and Its Underlying Psychological Dimensions
The purpose of this paper is to report on the construction of the HIV Medication Self-Reported Nonadherence Reasons (SNAR) index and its psychological correlates. Data were derived from a sample of 193 Swedish...
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Open AccessPrimary source of income is associated with differences in HIV risk behaviors in street-recruited samples
The relationship between primary source of income and HIV risk behaviors and the racial/ethnic differences in risk behavior profiles among disadvantaged populations have not been fully explored. This is unusua...
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Medication Compliance and Satisfaction with Treatment for HIV Disease in a Sample of African-American Crack Cocaine Smokers
The development of treatment regimes for African-American HIV-infected crack cocaine users has often been based on assumptions about compliance with medication regimes rather than evidence. This study sought t...
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Situational Correlates of Condom Use in a Sample of African-American Drug Users Who Are Primarily Crack Cocaine Users
We studied the situational determinants of condom use for vaginal sex in 151 African-American crack cocaine users in Houston, Texas, using situational presentation (Sitpres) methodology, which uses hypothetica...
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Ethical Issues in the Use of New Treatments for HIV
The stunningly rapid growth of the medical and psychosocial knowledge about HIV and its treatment has left many caregivers struggling to incorporate new findings into their work and many patients uncertain abo...
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Drug Use, Unsafe Sexual Behavior, and Internalized Homonegativity in Men Who Have Sex With Men
Previous research has identified alcohol and drug use as predictive of unsafe sexual behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM). The purpose of this study was to assess whether substances associated with t...
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Predictors of Stages of Change for Condom Use in Crack Cocaine Users
This paper addresses the question of whether sexual activity and partner characteristics differentiate people in different stages of change. Factors expected to distinguish people in different stages of change...
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Interventions to Reduce HIV Transmission in Homosexual Men
An understanding of any intervention to reduce the impact of an infectious disease always rests on three domains-an understanding of the biology of the infectious agent, an understanding of the epidemiology of...
