Media informasi dan tingkat pendidikan berhubungan dengan kehamilan remaja Indonesia

In the digital era, everyone has free access to various content using an electronic device, including teenagers. Pornographic content is also easy to access. The lack of reproductive knowledge among teenagers can cause risk behavior such as unsafe sexual activity that can lead to teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is a serious problem that can be endangering every young mother’s life. This condition can be a life-threatening for both mother and baby. This study aimed to determine the effect of media access and adolescent girls' educational levels on the incidence of teenage pregnancy in Indonesia. A cross-sectional design was used in this study. This study's sample was all young women contained in the 2012 IDHS data with an age range of 15-19 years old with a total sample size of 7,203 respondents. A Chi-square test was used in this study for data analysis. The results of this study show that there is a relationship between media information and the educational level of adolescent girls to the incident of teenage pregnancy in Indonesia.

Deteksi Gen sHBsAg sebagai Penanda Koinfeksi Hepatitis B pada Pengidap HIV

<p>Bandung is the city with the highest number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) sufferers in West Java. HIV patients often have co-infection with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). This condition can increase the risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death. Co-infection status can be detected by the presence of the HBsAg gene amplified using the nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (nested PCR) method. This study aimed to decide the number of HBV co-infection cases with the sHBsAg gene as a marker and factor influencing the presence of the gene in HIV patients in Bandung. This research used 50 human samples domiciled in Bandung which have been infected with HIV and never had a hepatitis test. Taking blood specimens was done on the people who had signed the informed consent. The detection of the sHBsAg gene started with genomic DNA isolation. Moreover, the purity and concentration of DNA isolation results were measured by the Nanodrop. The amplification process of the sHBsAg gene was done twice using two pairs of the specific primary. The amplification results were visualized by agarose electrophoresis method. Then, the data collected was analyzed by a logistic regression method. The laboratory results showed that 18 people (36%) had HIV-HBV co-infection, marked by the presence of the sHBsAg gene in their blood. Unsafe sexual activity, syringe drug use, and a vaccination profile were factors that significantly influence (p&lt;0.05) on this co-infection.</p>

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Epidemiology of Risky Sexual Behaviors in College and University Students in Ethiopia, 2018

Background. Risk of sexual ill-health occurs with the onset of unsafe sexual activity, mostly among the adolescents, and continues as long as the risky activities are engaged in. Globally, and in Africa, adolescent AIDS-related mortality among adolescents has been increasing. Therefore, a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiology of risky sexual behaviors in college and university students in Ethiopia is mandatory. Methods. We conducted extensive search of articles as indicated in the guideline of reporting systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA). Databases such as PubMed, Global Health, Africa-wides, Google advance search, Scopus, and EMBASE were accessed for literature search. The pooled estimated effect of epidemiology of risky sexual behaviors and associated factors were analyzed by using the random effects model meta-analysis and 95% CI was also considered. PROSPERO registration number is CRD42018109277. Result. A total of 18 studies with 10,218 participants were encompassed in this meta-analysis. The estimated pooled prevalence of risky sexual behaviors among college and university students was 41.62%. Being male [OR: 2.35, with 95% (CI; 1.20, 4.59)], alcohol use [OR: 2.68, with 95% CI; (1.67, 4.33)] and watching pornography [OR: 4.74, with 95% CI; (3.21, 7.00)] were positively associated with risky sexual behaviors. Conclusion and recommendation. Risky sexual behavior among students was high. Educational institutions should give special attention for male sex, alcohol user, and students who watch pornography.

HIV and syphilis in young Chinese adults: implications for spread

Our objective was to explore the epidemiology of HIV and syphilis at population level in young Chinese adults. The study was carried out in six areas of three Chinese provinces: Zhejiang, Yunnan and Shaanxi. All couples attending the compulsory premarital examination were recruited. Routinely taken blood was collected onto filter paper. Tests for HIV and syphilis used modified particle agglutination techniques. In all, 17,226 individuals were tested. There were no HIV infections in Zhejiang or Shaanxi. In Yunnan, there were 28 positives: 0.75% (95% confidence interval: 0.5, 1.1), with 22 (78%) in men and 16 (57%) in known high-risk individuals. Syphilis prevalence ranged from 0.33% to 0.71% across study sites, with 58% in men. Although syphilis levels suggest that unsafe sexual activity is occurring in all areas, HIV is not yet affecting the general population of Zhejiang or Shaanxi. The epidemic in Yunnan is being driven by injecting drug users, but there may now be transmission in the general population.

Marginalization, Information, and Infection: Risk Behavior Correlation in Ghettoized Sociogeographic Networks and the Spread of Disease to Majority Populations

Information theory analysis suggests that observed frequency distributions and intercorrelations of risk—benefit behaviors as determined from administrative data sets and surveys should characterize the internal structure of community-scale social networks, particularly in the context of social disintegration. This perspective further suggests that a ‘code’ is created using behaviors and correlated sequences of behaviors to overcome the noise generated by the oppressive externalities and consequent internal feedbacks causing community disorganization. The often-observed and highly destructive clustering of violence, substance abuse, and unsafe sexual activity appears as a consequence of a fundamental canonical mechanism (described by the Shannon—McMillan theorem) which favors intercorrelated meaningful sequences of behavioral or other signals to maximize the rate of transmission of information under noisy conditions. Such intercorrelation, in addition to accelerating the spread of infection carried by risk behaviors within marginalized communities, may cause their fragmented networks to become highly efficient compound channels, acting as bridges for the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other pathogens or behavioral pathologies from inner core groups to embedding majority populations. Individually oriented prevention programs addressing risk behaviors in ghettoized populations will thus have limited impact—particularly as strategies for the containment of infection—without a parallel address of the external marginalizing stressors which structure and enhance the value of such behaviors as useful symbols for communication. Without the introduction of new, politically based behaviors as alternative symbols within ‘core group’ communities, control of HIV and other pathogens seems unlikely in the United States.