OBJECTIVES To establish the sexual practices and their associated morbidity among women within 6 months of childbirth in Kampala Uganda. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING The three Mulago hospital child immunization clinics. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred and seventeen eligible mothers took part in the study from November to December 2001. OUTCOME MEASURES Time to resumption o...

After having intercourse or sex for the first time, a person may experience a range of physical or emotional reactions. Common physical reactions vary, too, and can include soreness, numbness, pleasure, orgasm, no orgasm, lubrication, no lubrication, irritation, urinary tract infection (UTI) [2], vaginal infection, or a sexually transmitted infection (STI) [3], with or without symptoms [4]. Com...

The aim of this review was to investigate if sexual intercourse during pregnancy is safe for mother and foetus. The method of this study included bibliography research from both the review and the research literature, mostly in books, professional journals and in ‘pubmed data base’ Results: The research showed that Women often wonder about the safety of sexual intercourse while pregnant and als...

BACKGROUND Less is known about the sexual health of young adults than about adolescents, despite 20 to 24-year-olds' greater risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmissible infections. This paper provides information on college students' prior and current sexual practices including oral sex, vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse and masturbation. METHODS We analysed data from a cross-...

BACKGROUND Most of the sexually transmitted infection prevention programs fail to attend to the relationship type of individuals at first sexual intercourse and how it influences contraceptive behavior. STUDY DESIGN A national sample of adolescents (3084 females and 2745 for males) was analyzed to determine the associations between relationship types (committed, going steady and casual), use ...

CONTEXT Although intimate partner violence and anal intercourse are common in young adult relationships, few studies have examined whether these behaviors are associated with each other. METHODS Data from 6,280 women aged 18-28 who took part in Wave 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used to examine the association between physical and sexual intimate partner viole...

background: the objective of this study was to describe the extent of sexual activity in adolescent school girls. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with prolective collection of data carried out at lycée general leclerc, yaounde (cameroon), from october 1 to november 30, 2011. heterosexual coitus was considered as sexual activity. a pretested self-administered questionnaire was proposed...