Background Information: According to the United Nations, about 150 million youth spent most of their time on the street, or better still, homeless. This is becoming a global phenomenon and majority of this vulnerable people live in large cities and urban areas of developing countries. Street youths are a...
Contraceptive knowledge is vital to promoting youth health. It has been proven to lower the high rates of unwanted pregnancies,and STIs including HIV/AIDS. The aim of the study was to examine the level of contraceptive knowledge and use among youths in Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) Nigeria. The study...
Background: Studies in children and adults have reported variations in 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) over time. Furthermore, there has been a reported association of 25(OH)D with BMI, BP and lipid levels in some cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.
Meth...
Objective: Adolescence is a transition period where drug experimentation is common. Spirituality and religiosity have been recognized by literature as having a possible role in stabilizing good physical and mental health. To compare the religiosity and spirituality among adolescents abusing a psychoactiv...
Objectives: Despite numerous interventions to facilitate adolescents’ access to family planning (FP) services in West Africa, studies reveal that unmarried adolescents have difficulties accessing these services. This study analyses the supply of the FP services package to unmarried adolescents as well ...
Background: Risky sexual behavior (RSB) is common among youths which predispose them to sexually transmitted infections. This study sets out to identify the factors associated with RSB among undergraduates in Osun state.
Methods: The study design was descriptive cross sectional and a total of 550 respond...
A good knowledge of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in female students is an important element in the prevention of STI transmission. The objective of this study is to describe the level of knowledge and practices on STI among female students at the University of Kara. A cross-sectional study was c...
Background. Factors associated with menstrual hygiene management (MHM) and practices affect school absenteeism, with up to 7 million girls missing 25% of their given school year each month in South Africa (SA).
Objective. To identify the most significant factors associated with MHM and practices affectin...
Contexte et objectif. L’éviction des infections sexuellement transmissibles et du VIH (IST/VIH) chez les jeunes et adolescents passe par l’adoption de comportement sexuel sain. L’objectif était de décrire les comportements sexuels à
risque d’IST/VIH chez les élèves du secondaire du CEG1 de...
Introduction: The novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), etiological agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in China in December 2019 and spread worldwide. As of March 6th, 2021, there have been 116,670,105 million confirmed cases globall...
Africa/epidemiology,
COVID-19/epidemiology,
Communicable Diseases, Imported,
Contraception,
Global Health,
Humans,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Adolescent,
Pandemics,
Patient Acuity,
SARS-CoV-2,
Communicable Diseases, Imported/epidemiology
