Sökning: "sexual risk taking"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden sexual risk taking.
21. Life circumstances and adolescent mental health: Perceptions, associations and a gender analysis
Sammanfattning : Despite a well-documented gender pattern of adolescent mental health, public health research investigating possible influencing factors from a gender-theoretical approach is scarce. This study aimed to explore what factors and circumstances are related to adolescent mental health and to apply a gender analysis to the findings in order to improve the understanding of the relationships between life circumstances and the gendered patterning of mental health among young people. LÄS MER
22. Sex, drugs and intersecting risks : HIV among people who belong to more than one key population in the United States
Sammanfattning : Background: The HIV epidemic in the United States (US) is mainly concentrated in so-called ‘key populations’ including men who have sex with men (MSM) and people who inject drugs (PWID). In addition, other groups such as people of low socioeconomic status and people belonging to some ethnic minorities have a higher prevalence of HIV. LÄS MER
23. Sexting among adolescents: A gendered online phenomenon, related to individual and social determinants
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns sexting among Swedish adolescents and adolescent sexual development. Adolescence is a period of major bodily, cognitive, and social changes and of sexual exploration. LÄS MER
24. Mucosal immune responses in HIV-1 exposed uninfected individuals
Sammanfattning : The development of HIV vaccines and immunotherapeutics remains hampered by our lack of understanding correlates of immune protection to infection and disease. The major (perhaps only) piece of evidence indicating that long-term, solid resistance to HIV infection is indeed possible comes from HIV exposed yet uninfected individuals (EUI). LÄS MER
25. Epithelial barrier protection : implications for HIV susceptibility
Sammanfattning : The majority of HIV infections today occur through sexual HIV transmission. The female genital mucosa offers a barrier against incoming pathogens. Although, studies show that the vaginal microbiome, co-current infections and local inflammation, the use of hormonal contraceptives and microbicides, can weaken this protective lining. LÄS MER