Background The Philippines is experiencing one of the fastest growing epidemics globally.
Evidence-based public health policies are needed. To describe the public health literature …

Background The state of the HIV epidemic in the Philippines has been described as" low
and slow", which is in stark contrast to many other countries in the region. A review of the …

Purpose: This paper presents the findings of a cross-sectional survey on the risk and
protective factors of premarital sexual behavior among rural female adolescents in …

This paper describes findings on selected determinants of sexual intercourse among 468
unmarried adolescents from a survey in Malaysia. Data on respondents' background, sexual …

PURPOSE: To explore the effect of perceptions of friends' romantic and physical behaviors
on adolescent sexual behavior and the relative influence of friends' sexual behaviors and …

Operating according to UNAIDS''Protocol for the Identification of Discrimination against
People Living with HIV', this study analysed health infrastructure in Manila, Philippines and …

The relations between social desirability bias and happiness and depression were
experimentally investigated to determine if the stated goals of Positive Psychology may be …

Over the past 50 years, nearly every country in Asia has experienced a population boom
followed by a drop in birth rates. This pattern produces, after about 20 years, a significant …

Since 1984, when the first HIV case was reported in the Philippines, the viral infection has
been the subject of popular, political, and public health concern. In the 1980s HIV/AIDS was …

The research study examines sexual practices among 250 Malaysian school-aged
adolescents who participated in the Rakan Muda Program. Based on logistic regression …