Issue 1/2017
Content (31 Articles)
Sexual abuse and risky sexual behaviors among young female hawkers in Burkina Faso: a mixed method study
Saide Yacine Y.A. Ouédraogo, Ebrima J. Sisawo, Song-Lih Huang
Unpacking early infant male circumcision decision-making using qualitative findings from Zimbabwe
Webster Mavhu, Karin Hatzold, Getrude Ncube, Shamiso Fernando, Collin Mangenah, Kumbirai Chatora, Roy Dhlamini, Owen Mugurungi, Ismail Ticklay, Frances M. Cowan
Fine and Gray competing risk regression model to study the cause-specific under-five child mortality in Bangladesh
Khandoker Akib Mohammad, Most. Fatima-Tuz-Zahura, Wasimul Bari
Methods to increase reporting of childhood sexual abuse in surveys: the sensitivity and specificity of face-to-face interviews versus a sealed envelope method in Ugandan primary school children
Anna Louise Barr, Louise Knight, Ivan Franҫa-Junior, Elizabeth Allen, Dipak Naker, Karen M. Devries
Perceptions of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health and rights: a cross-sectional study in Lahore District, Pakistan
Sarosh Iqbal, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Florian Fischer
Wife beating refusal among women of reproductive age in urban and rural Ethiopia
Eshetu Gurmu, Senait Endale
Bibliometric analysis of medicine – related publications on refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people: 2000 – 2015
Waleed M. Sweileh
Prevalence of, and barriers to the disclosure of HIV status to infected children and adolescents in a district of Ghana
Eric Gyamfi, Paul Okyere, Acheampong Enoch, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong
Challenges in the delivery of public HIV testing and counselling (HTC) in Douala, Cameroon: providers perspectives and implications on quality of HTC services
Patrice Ngangue, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Emmanuelle Bedard
Health and legal literacy for migrants: twinned strands woven in the cloth of social justice and the human right to health care
Bilkis Vissandjée, Wendy E. Short, Karine Bates
“When they know that you are a sex worker, you will be the last person to be treated”: Perceptions and experiences of female sex workers in accessing HIV services in Uganda
Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Geofrey Musinguzi, Juliet Kiguli, Fred Nuwaha, Geoffrey Mujisha, Joshua Musinguzi, Jim Arinaitwe, Joseph K. B. Matovu
Premarital HIV testing in Malaysia: a qualitative exploratory study on the views of major stakeholders involved in HIV prevention
Sima Barmania, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
Assessing the impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments prior to the uptake of the national health insurance scheme in Ghana
James Akazili, John Ele-Ojo Ataguba, Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, John Gyapong, Osman Sankoh, Abraham Oduro, Di McIntyre
HIV prevalence, risky behaviors, and discrimination experiences among transgender women in Cambodia: descriptive findings from a national integrated biological and behavioral survey
Siyan Yi, Chanrith Ngin, Sovannary Tuot, Pheak Chhoun, Srean Chhim, Khuondyla Pal, Phalkun Mun, Gitau Mburu
Effective implementation of the UNCRPD by Thailand State Party: challenges and potential remedies
Donruedee Srisuppaphon, Arnon Sriboonroj, Wachara Riewpaiboon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Scrambling for access: availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of healthcare for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in South Africa
Alex Müller
An investigation of the relationship between autonomy, childbirth practices, and obstetric fistula among women in rural Lilongwe District, Malawi
Julika Ayla Kaplan, Jonathan Kandodo, Joseph Sclafani, Susan Raine, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Alison Norris, Abigail Norris-Turner, Elly Chemey, John Michael Beckham, Zara Khan, Reginald Chunda
Analysis of the association between millennium development goals 4 & 5 and the physician workforce across international economic strata
Christopher P. Morley, Dongliang Wang, Emily M. Mader, Kyle P. Plante, Lindsey N. Kingston, Azadeh Rabiei
Sexual violence against female university students in Ethiopia
Yohannes Mehretie Adinew, Mihiret Abreham Hagos
Key populations and human rights in the context of HIV services rendition in Ghana
Amos Laar, Debra DeBruin
Realizing Universal Health Coverage in East Africa: the relevance of human rights
Alicia Ely Yamin, Allan Maleche
Perspectives of basic wheelchair users on improving their access to wheelchair services in Kenya and Philippines: a qualitative study
Emma Williams, Elizabeth Hurwitz, Immaculate Obaga, Brenda Onguti, Adovich Rivera, Tyrone Reden L. Sy, R. Lee Kirby, Jamie Noon, Deepti Tanuku, Anthony Gichangi, Eva Bazant
Determinants of internal migrant health and the healthy migrant effect in South India: a mixed methods study
Warren Dodd, Sally Humphries, Kirit Patel, Shannon Majowicz, Matthew Little, Cate Dewey
Perceptions about Iranian-Kurds’ ethnic-inequality in health
Arezoo Yari, Saharnaz Nedjat, Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Reza Majdzadeh
Curbing the lifestyle disease pandemic: making progress on an interdisciplinary research agenda for law and policy interventions
Brigit Toebes, Marlies Hesselman, Jitse P. van Dijk, Joost Herman
Online surveillance of media health event reporting in Nepal: digital disease detection from a One Health perspective
Jessica S. Schwind, Stephanie A. Norman, Dibesh Karmacharya, David J. Wolking, Sameer M. Dixit, Rajesh M. Rajbhandari, Sumiko R. Mekaru, John S. Brownstein
“It is good to take her early to the doctor” – mothers’ understanding of childhood pneumonia symptoms and health care seeking in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania
Florida Muro, Judith Meta, Jenny Renju, Adiel Mushi, Hilda Mbakilwa, Raimos Olomi, Hugh Reyburn, Helena Hildenwall
Should community health workers offer support healthcare services to survivors of sexual violence? a systematic review
Anne Gatuguta, Barbra Katusiime, Janet Seeley, Manuela Colombini, Isaac Mwanzo, Karen Devries
Human rights and mental health in post-apartheid South Africa: lessons from health care professionals working with suicidal inmates in the prison system
Jason Bantjes, Leslie Swartz, Pieter Niewoudt
Transgender women in Malaysia, in the context of HIV and Islam: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ perceptions
Sima Barmania, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
Institutional context and VCT practitioner narratives: possibilities and limitations for HIV prevention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Claudia Mora, Simone Monteiro, Carlos Otávio Fiúza Moreira