Background The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectiousness of anal intercourse (AI)
has not been systematically reviewed, despite its role driving HIV epidemics among men …

An increasing amount of research is beginning to offer a global overview of the extent of
violence against women. In this paper we discuss the magnitude of some of the most …

Summary In 1996, the World Health Assembly declared violence a major public health
issue. To follow up on this resolution, on Oct 3 this year, WHO released the first World Report …

Violence pervades the lives of many people around the world, and touches all of us in some
way. To many people, staying out of harm's way is a matter of locking doors and windows …

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same …

Sexual violence is ubiquitous; it occurs in every culture, in all levels of society and in every
country of the world. Data from country and local studies indicate that, in some parts of the …

Sex workers have long been considered a high-risk group for HIV infection, but to date little
quantitative research has explored the association between HIV risk and exchange of sex …

This literature review assesses the extent of age mixing and economic transactions in the
sexual relationships of adolescent girls in sub‐Saharan Africa and the behavioral dynamics …

Background Increased education of girls in developing contexts is associated with a number
of important positive health, social, and economic outcomes for a community. The event of …

We explored the prevalence and predictors of transactional sex with casual partners and
main girlfriends among 1288 men aged 15–26 from 70 villages in the rural Eastern Cape …