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Human Papillomavirus Risk Factors

Research from Rollins School of Public Health in the area of human papillomavirus risk factors published

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 22nd, 2010

A report, 'Association of sexual abuse with incident high-risk human papillomavirus infection among young African-American women,' is newly published data in Sexually Transmitted Diseases. "Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Noticeably absent from the known risk factors for HPV infection is history of sexual abuse," investigators in the United States report.

"The current study examined the association between sexual abuse and incident high-risk HPV among young adult black women. This longitudinal study was part of a larger HIV/STI randomized controlled behavioral trial that randomly recruited...

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