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HIV risk behaviors and testing rates in adolescent girls: evidence to guide clinical practice.

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: With an estimated 11 million cases worldwide, adolescents are the fastest growing group of persons newly diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and are at the center of the worldwide AIDS pandemic (United Nations Children's Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS & World Health Organization, 2002). The most recent epidemiological data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that 89% of all recent adolescent heterosexually acquired HIV infections occurred in girls (2004c).

Source: PubMed

Authors: Dianne Morrison-Beedy, LaRon E Nelson, Ellen Volpe

Institution: University of Rochester

Language: English

Topic: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Nursing Research

Award: Maintaining HIV Prevention Gains in Female Adolescents