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HIV/AIDS Behavior Medicine
HIV infection from high-risk behaviors in adolescence occurs under psychosocial stressors
September 19th, 2006
HIV infection from high-risk behaviors in adolescence occurs in youth with multiple psychosocial stressors. "We undertook a retrospective medical chart review of HIV-infected adolescents referred to a Southern U.S. urban comprehensive adolescent HIV clinic between 1992 and 2003 to describe the psychosocial profile of adolescents infected with HIV via high-risk behaviors. "Ninety-one adolescents (59 females, 32 males, 95% African-American, median age 17 years) were identified," investigators in the United States report. According to H. Kadivar and colleagues at the University of Tennessee, "Common reasons for initial HIV testing...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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