AIMS To investigate patterns of exposure to tobacco smoke in pregnancy among a representative sample of New Zealand women. METHODS Analyses of smoking-related data from the first wave of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort study, ie from the first data-collection point during the antenatal period in 2009-10. RESULTS Twenty percent of mothers reporting smoking before pregnancy and 9.9% of m...

This quantitative study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, compared contexts of social vulnerability and sexual and reproductive behavior in a sample of 975 women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHIV) and 1,003 women not living with HIV, the latter recruited among users of the primary healthcare system. WLHIV experienced situations of greater vulnerability that potentially increased their risk of HIV inf...

This report examines a myriad of research on teenage pregnancy across the United States and specifically the state of Texas to elucidate the correlates involved with teenage pregnancy rates. This research includes studies compiled mostly from the 2010 census in Texas counties and employs a multiple regression analysis of the variables to determine the statistical significance of each one in rel...

BACKGROUND In common with other countries, teenage pregnancy is attracting policy attention in Sri Lanka because of the risks it poses to maternal and infant health and social and economic well-being. This study aimed to increase understanding of the context of teenage pregnancy, by (1) describing the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of pregnant teenagers and their partners; (2) e...

The current study was designed to examine the relation between cognitive associative networks, perceptions of vulnerability to unplanned pregnancy, and erotophobia. Two issues were addressed. The first was whether negative emotional orientation toward sexuality (i.e., erotophobia) is related to cognitive associations between sexual words and words with positive vs negative connotations (e.g., v...

Since the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, a relevant question has been whether contraception can influence or be influenced by the disease, and how HIV prevention can be integrated into HIV prevention and care programmes. On face value, it would appear that the promotion of all types of contraceptives would complement and synergize HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. However, there is now sufficient e...

BMJ 1992;305:931-2 be assumed not to be., planning a pregnancy. A treatment which minimised the likelihood of a delayed bleed, and therefore the requirement for a pregnancy test, would seem advantageous. The three pregnancies conceived after mifepristone treatment suggests that the next cycle and ovulation may occur without an intervening bleed. As we found no true failures of mifepristone trea...