Men generally play an important role in women's reproductive health and family planning.
However, men's participation in these areas has been difficult. Surveys from Africa reveal …

Researchers across the health sciences are engaged in a vigorous debate over the role that
the concepts of “race” and “ethnicity” play in health research and clinical practice. Here we …

An effective communication strategy is a critical zomponenl of the global efforts in HIV/AIDS
prevention and education. Such a strategy should be grounded in a sound theory such that …

For anyone approaching Discourse Analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is
not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use. Describing Discourse …

AIDS has been experienced in Nepal mostly as an expected epidemic. When
epidemiologists in the late 1980s began warning that South Asia would soon be hit by an …

Health communication, as an area of theory, research, and practice, focuses on the
relationships between communication and health, health attitudes and beliefs, and health …

The goal of the present study was to examine the possible links between global self-esteem
and sexual self-esteem, and their links to sexual communication in relationships. It was …

This study examined a model in which sexual communication apprehension and sexual self-
esteem were expected to predict individuals' verbal and nonverbal communication of …

To investigate how individuals seek and disclose information related to testing for sexually
transmitted infections (STIs) in sexual relationships, this study utilizes the revised theory of …

In the US, continued high rates of unintended pregnancy, combined with increases in
heterosexual transmission of HIV to women, have sharply magnified concern about the …