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The last time your teen-age male patient came to the adolescent clinic, he left with a bag of male condoms. However, when he returns to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), he tells you he hasn't used the condoms. Why?
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Sexuality is a normal part of adolescent development. Though sexual behaviors can lead to adverse reproductive health outcomes, most adolescents will become sexually active during their teen-age years, which makes interventions that promote or enhance sexual health in adolescents increasingly important.
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As a clinician who counsels on contraceptive choice, how can you determine if a woman is a likely candidate for the contraceptive vaginal ring (NuvaRing, Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ)? New research suggests that young women who report tampon use are more likely to choose the contraceptive vaginal ring over oral contraceptives as their initial birth control method.
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Trichomoniasis is the most common curable sexually transmitted disease (STD) in young, sexually active women. An estimated 7.4 million new cases occur each year in women and men, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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[Editor's note: Look to the July 2010 issue for the second of this two-part series for information on SWAP, an online database developed by the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center.]
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The test results are in: Your patient tests positive for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). What is your next step?
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In the United States, women and teen girls accounted for more than one-fourth of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2007 and more than 93,900 cumulative deaths from AIDS.
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Learn to be more specific in your sexual health history taking. Results of a new study from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University in Bloomington indicate that no uniform consensus exists when the term "had sex" is used.
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The options in birth control might be set to expand: Watson Pharmaceuticals of Corona, CA, has signed an exclusive licensing agreement to commercialize the Population Council's investigational contraceptive vaginal ring in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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What is your facility's protocol when it comes to testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)? It probably involves patient testing, with treatment provided after test results are completed.
