Reproductive Health

Studies conducted at University of North Carolina on reproductive health recently published

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 3rd, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, "We studied whether female youths from communities with higher sexual violence were at greater risk of negative reproductive health outcomes. We used data from a 2003 nationally representative household survey of youths aged 15-24 years in South Africa."

"The key independent variable was whether a woman had ever been threatened or forced to have sex We aggregated this variable to the community level to determine, with control for individual-level experience with violence, whether the community-level prevalence of violence was associated with HIV status and adolescent pregnancy among female, sexually experienced,...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-12-03)

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