Rape and sexual violence occur in all societies, and cut across all social classes.
Prevalence estimates of rape victimisation range between 6 and 59% of women having …

Research aimed at investigating sexual behaviour and assessing interventions to improve
sexual health has increased in recent decades. The resulting data, despite regional …

Executive summary Intimate partner and sexual violence affect a large proportion of the
population–with the majority of those directly experiencing such violence being women and …

Background Early sexual debut among adolescents is associated with considerable
negative heath and development outcomes. An understanding of the determinants or …

Background Tobacco use is the most important preventable cause of premature death and
major risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Due to strict tobacco legislation in the …

Although there is increasing evidence of risky consensual sex among young people in
developing countries, non-consensual sexual experiences among them have rarely been …

Background Risky sexual behaviors adversely affect the health of youth and young adults
exposing them to sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and unwanted …

The primary focus of this article is to determine which risk and protective factors are most
important to adolescent reproductive health in developing countries. A comprehensive and …

Cultures all over the world have evolved illness representations that can accommodate not
only new diseases, but also new epistemologies for explaining disease. This paper …

The same careful rigour imposed on the design of phase III randomised controlled trials is
not always applied to medical research in other areas such as trials conducted at earlier …