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- 1From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths among women. Each year there are approximately 250,000 deaths; most of which occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. The...
- 2From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Birth and emergency planning encourages early decision making, helps overcome barriers to skilled maternity care and reduces preventable maternal and newborn deaths. A facility based postnatal survey of 483...
- 3From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedPrior to 2011, uptake of PMTCT in Malawi remained low despite increased access to antiretrovirals. We sought to understand barriers to PMTCT in rural Malawi. Twenty-two HIV-infected pregnant and postpartum women in...
- 4From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedWhether well founded or not, perceptions of one's own HIV risk have been shown by health behavior models to be an important factor in determining individuals' sexual behavior. Although empirical studies on the...
- 5From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis study examined sexual practices in a Nigerian University community with a view to understanding the role of family structure and poverty on risky sexual behaviours. A representative sample of 1,301 undergraduate...
- 6From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLe but de l'etude etait de determiner l'association entre l'activite sexuelle et situation serologique du VIH et les facteurs qui contribuent a un effet positif de la situation serologique du VIH. Nous nous sommes...
- 7From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The objective of this study was to bring ethical issues in the practice of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Nigeria to the fore, to determine and articulate the views of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on...
- 8From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper is about methodological issues in a community-wide study in Nigeria on an infectious disease, namely HIV/AIDS. The study was designed to ascertain the risk factors that contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS...
- 9From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
Exposure to media content and sexual health behaviour among adolescents in Lagos metropolis, Nigeria
L'influence de l'exposition des adolescents au contenu sexuel des medias sur leur comportement de leur sante sexuelle au Nigeria n'est pas encore evidente. Les donnees ont ete recueillies a l'aide d'une enquete menee... - 10From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedSerodiscordant couples are a significant source of new HIV infection in sub-Sahara Africa. The prevention of HIV transmission to the uninfected partner should be an integral part of their health care. Serodiscordant...
- 11From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAit Benkaddour Y *, Mansouri MZ, Rabbani K, Jalal H, Aboulfalh A, Abbassi H. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology "A" Cadi Ayyad University, Marra Kesh, Morrocco * For correspondence: Email:...
- 12From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAmong the impoverished population of coastal Kenya, there is a rapidly growing group of young single mothers who suffer from adverse health outcomes, incomplete schooling, social ostracism by their communities, and...
- 13From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This study has as specific objective to analyze the prevalence of risky sexual behaviors and their social factors in Francophone sub-Saharan African countries among young people by highlighting the...
- 14From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedAvailable evidence indicates that sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease (HIV/AIDS) in the world. Of the 35.3 million persons living...
- 15From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The total fertility rate of Nigerian women has remained high at 5.7. This is even higher for women in rural areas. Men and women in rural areas desire more children than those in urban areas. This study was...
- 16From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Skilled birth attendance (SBA) and healthcare facility (HCF) delivery are effective means of reducing maternal mortality. However, their uptake remains low in many low-income countries. The present study...
- 17From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedUsing data from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, this paper examines the drivers of young people's attitudes towards HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in Ghana. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic...
- 18From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue S4) Peer-ReviewedNigeria is scaling up prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV interventions to primary health care centres (PHCs). This retrospective study of PMTCT was at two PHCs in Northwest Nigeria with the main...
- 19From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLa sterilite est une condition chargee de sens enjambant les biomedicaux, psychologiques, social, economique, culturel et religieux. Compte tenu de son pouvoir perturbateur sur la vie des femmes, il offre une...
- 20From: African Journal of Reproductive Health. (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study reports on findings of a pilot of community-based distribution (CBD) of injectable contraceptives in two local government areas (LGAs) of Gombe State, Nigeria. From August 2009 to January 2010, the project...