Purpose To conduct a literature review of studies that examined risk and protective factors
related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health in developing countries. Methods A …

Background There is considerable evidence of racial/ethnic patterning of sexually
transmitted infection (STI) risk in the United States. There is also evidence that poorer …

Objective Black female youth have been disproportionately burdened by the HIV epidemic.
Emerging literature suggests that individual and social-structural factors may uniquely …

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States have been increasing at record
levels and exhibit unequal spatial patterning across urban populations and neighborhoods …

Abstract Knowledge of the geographic and temporal clustering of drug activity can inform
where health and social services are needed and can provide insight on the potential impact …

Objectives: In small-scale, intra-urban communities, do fundamental demographic correlates
of crime, proven important in community criminology, link to next year's crime levels, even …

Incidence rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea reached unprecedented levels in 2015 and are
concentrated in southern counties of the USA. Using incidence data from the Center for …

Ecologic and cross-sectional multilevel analyses suggest that characteristics of the places
where people live influence their vulnerability to HIV and other sexually-transmitted …

In order for treatment as prevention to work as a national strategy to contain the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in the United States (US), the HIV care continuum must become more robust …

Baltimore, Maryland ranks among US cities with the highest incidence of HIV infection
among men who have sex with men (MSM). HIV screening at sex partner meeting places or …