Loretta Brabin

..Some of these issues will need to be addressed to ensure continued high vaccine coverage as HPV vaccination becomes a less prioritised, routine activity...

..Under-16s in the UK have a right to confidential sexual health care without parental consent. We investigated parents' views on making available HPV vaccination to adolescent minors at sexual health clinics without parental consent...

..To assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to adolescent girls...

..It will be important to raise general awareness of the role of HPV in cervical cancer without stigmatizing the vaccine...

..The objective of this paper was to assess whether rural Gambian women were aware of the importance of the timing of the two-dose IPT dose schedule and its relevance to drug safety...

..To assess maturity indices, menstrual patterns, hormonal factors, and risk of adolescent genital tract infections...

..Failure to prioritize adolescent health in this way will seriously limit the success of disease control programs for malaria and HIV prevention...

..The objective of this study was to assess the uptake of free postal chlamydia screening by women under 25 years who requested EHC at pharmacies in Manchester, UK...

..We investigated the views of adolescent girls who had been offered the vaccine as part of a feasibility study conducted in Manchester...

..Fear of cervical cancer may motivate young adolescents for vaccination but false assumptions might undermine later preventive actions by both the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups...

..A similar, nonsignificant trend was observed among women with a persistent HPV infection. CONCLUSION: Lower fetal androgen exposure may predispose to persistent HPV and increased risk of CIN...

..As part of a vaccine study conducted ahead of the National HPV Vaccine Programme we sought the views of school nurses on vaccinating girls who did not have parental consent...

..Our results indicated that the film's four key messages were acceptable to parents and largely understood by adolescents but these messages will need reinforcing if the full potential of a prophylactic vaccine is to be realised...

..Different approaches may be needed to maximize HPV vaccine uptake in engaged and non-responding parents, including ethnic-specific approaches for non-responders...

..To describe the pattern and relation of sex serum hormones and retinol concentrations over 1 menstrual cycle in adolescent girls living in a resource-poor setting...

..Clinicians with patients at high risk of sexually transmitted infections, especially HIV, require better information on the risks associated with different hormonal contraceptive regimes...

..Responses suggested that fact sheets and parent information evenings confirmed, rather than changed, consent decisions. The views of active refusers on safety and efficacy may be difficult to change, lowering vaccine coverage...

..We explored these factors to inform and improve the process by which health workers provide care and treatment to pregnant women...

..Nutritional supplementation of girls and adolescents should not be discouraged for fear of increasing the risk of CPD by improving birthweight. When CPD is present, it may result from childhood rickets and calcium deficiency...

..To avoid offence they selected women based on age, education and ethnicity. The rationale for chlamydia screening in pharmacy-based EHC schemes is compromised if pharmacists do not offer screening comprehensively...

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..We assessed hormonal factors and risk of abnormal vaginal pH and bacterial vaginosis (BV) among adolescents attending genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics...

..028 [95% CI 0.001-0.66], P= 0.001). This preliminary study suggests that higher levels of IL-10 may prevent cervical neoplasia through their role in eliminating HPV...

..Pregnancy in older women is of great relevance, particularly in developed countries where many women experience pregnancy late in the childbearing age...