{"id":31,"date":"2006-11-06T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/11\/06\/lancet-4-nov-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T11:02:08","slug":"lancet-4-nov-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/11\/06\/lancet-4-nov-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancet 4 Nov 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Lancet <\/em>rarely condescends to publish qualitative research, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606696621\/fulltext\">paper <\/a>slips in because it calls itself a systematic review and deals with factors which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606696621\/fulltext\">shape young people\u2019s sexual behaviou<\/a>r. Understanding these is critical to limiting the HIV epidemic, since half of new infections are acquired between the ages of 15 and 24. So this study tries to draw out common themes across different cultures, with no startling new insights. <!--more-->In all societies, boys are expected to be sexually active and girls to be chaste. Nobody much likes condoms.<\/p>\n<p>The problem goes beyond HIV\/AIDS, of course: other sexually transmitted diseases, and unsafe abortion, can also be a matter of life and death. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606694786\/fulltext\">global survey of sexual health<\/a> finds that unsafe sex is the biggest health threat in the poorest countries, after malnutrition. The burden of unsafe abortion, illustrated in Figure 2, is particularly appalling in the whole of South America and East Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606696633\/fulltext\">Alzheimer <\/a>first presented a case of his disease on Nov 3<sup>rd<\/sup> 1906, and this nice little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606696633\/fulltext\">article <\/a>looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606696633\/fulltext\">changes in management <\/a>since. Basically, there have been none, despite the borderline effects of a few drugs: humane care is still what\u2019s needed most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet rarely condescends to publish qualitative research, but this paper slips in because it calls itself a systematic review and deals with factors which shape young people\u2019s sexual behaviour. Understanding these is critical to limiting the HIV epidemic, since half of new infections are acquired between the ages of 15 and 24. So this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/11\/06\/lancet-4-nov-2006\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}