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Showing result 6 - 10 of 59 swedish dissertations containing the word sti.

2. 6. Sexual Behaviour and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Urban Ugandan Youth – Perceptions, Attitudes and Management

   Author : Eva-Britta Råssjö; Elisabeth Darj; Gunilla Lindmark; Gunta Lazdane; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; International health; Adolescents; Uganda; Syndromic approach; STI; VCT for HIV; Safe sex behaviour; Internationell hälsa; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

   Abstract : The aims of this thesis were to expand the knowledge about sexual and reproductive health among urban Ugandan youths, living in a slum, and to evaluate the national flow-chart for management of the abnormal vaginal discharge (AVD) syndrome in adolescent girls. Data collection included individual interviews, focus-group discussions and clinical investigations with tests for chlamydia trachomatis (CT), neisseria gonorrhoea (NG), trichomonas vaginalis (TV), syphilis, and HIV infection. READ MORE

4. 7. The Work of Contracepting : Young people's experiences and practices with contraceptives in Sweden

   Author : Marie Larsson; Sociologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Contraceptives; Contraception; Work; Pregnancy prevention; STI prevention; Young people; Sweden; Relationality; Feminist theory; Technoscience; Qualitative methods; Preventivmedel; Preventivmetoder; Arbete; Graviditetsprevention; STI prevention; unga vuxna; Sverige; relationellt perspektiv; feministisk teori; Teknovetenskap; kvalitativa metoder;

   Abstract : Contraception is a complex phenomenon with differing meanings, expressions, and materialities depending on its historical, social, and cultural context. In this thesis, I depart from the conceptualisation of contraception as the prevention of both pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and I name these practices through the collective term of contracepting. READ MORE

5. 8. Plant-produced STI vaccine antigens with special emphasis on HIV-1 p24

   Author : Ingrid Lindh; Åke Strid; Sören Andersson; Edward Rybicki; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Plant-based vaccines; Arabidopsis thaliana; HIV-1; p24; GALT; mucosal immunity; Chlamydia trachomatis; MOMP; Daucus carota; Chemistry; Kemi; Chemistry; Kemi;

   Abstract : Objective: To establish stable transgenic non-toxic plants as a platform for plant-based vaccine production as well as potential oral delivery system of vaccine antigens for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The concept is to immunize the mucosal immune system present in the gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT). READ MORE

6. 9. The interface between biomedical and traditional health practitioners in STI and HIV/AIDS care : study on intersectoral collaboration in Zambia

   Author : Berthollet Bwira Kaboru; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Traditional medicine; health practitioners; collaboration; multisectoralism; integrative medicine; STI; HIV; AIDS; Zambia.;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore potential opportunities for and obstacles to collaboration between biomedical and traditional health practitioners (BHPs and THPs) and to test a dialogue nurturing intervention in order to improve attitudes and increase collaborative activities pertinent for STIs and HIV/AIDS care in Zambia. The specific objectives were: to explore the local communities views on prerequisites (or preconditions) to collaboration between biomedical and traditional health providers with regards to STIs and HIV/AIDS care (I); to explore BHPs and THPs' experiences of and attitudes toward collaboration and to identify obstacles and potential opportunities for them to collaborate with regard to care for patients with STIs and HIV/AIDS (II); to explore biomedical and traditional health practitioners perceptions of good STIs and HIV/AIDS care and their opinions on weaknesses in the services they provide to patients with STIs and HIV/AIDS (III); to assess the changes in attitudes to and practices of collaboration among a set of BHPs and THPs following a participatory intervention in the Zambian city of Ndola, focusing on STIs and HIV/AIDS care (IV). READ MORE

7. 10. Contagious Interactions : Essays on social and epidemiological networks

   Author : Monica K. Nordvik; Fredrik Liljeros; Peter Hedström; Alden S. Klovdahl; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social networks; social network analysis SNA ; network epidemiology; sexually transmitted infections STI ; mathematical modeling; suicide; diffusion.; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation has two overall aims; to explore and develop the use of SNA in sociology, and to demonstrate that sociology has much to give to other sciences. Interdisciplinary collaboration is necessary because we do not live in a world in which subject areas are strictly isolated. READ MORE