HIV/AIDS
Reports from Rutgers University describe recent advances in HIV/AIDS
Published in AIDS Weekly, October 22nd, 2007
"'This study compares demographic characteristics, sexual risk factors for HIV/STI, and cultural predictors of sexual risk among 254 Dominican and 1,012 Puerto Rican women using outpatient health care in New York City. More Dominicans were born outside continental United States and were employed, whereas more Puerto Ricans were single and less educated," scientists writing in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences report.
"Both groups of Latinas exhibited low condom use with main and other sexual partners, perceiving their own and their partners' risk as low. Puerto Ricans were more heterosexually active, had more sexual partners, had higher incidence of STI...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-10-22)
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