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Human sexual behavior

Barriers and facilitators to the diagnosis of HIV and other STIs in primary care within publicly funded healthcare systems: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Pilar Galicia, Maria Jesús García de Yébenes, Consuelo Pascau, Juan Cuadros González, Loreto Carmona, Jose-Manuel Ramos-Rincón

published 05 Feb 2026

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Navigating HIV self-testing: Concerns among adolescents and young people aged 15–24 years in Uganda. An exploratory qualitative study

Richard Muhumuza, Denis Ndekezi, Rehema Nagawa, Esther Awino, Chiti Bwalya, Madalitso Mbewe, Joanita Nassali, Jackline Namara, Felix Rutaro, Musonda Simwinga, Virginia Bond, Janet Seeley, Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata

published 05 Feb 2026

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Associations between big five personality traits, facets, and sexual fantasies

Emily Cannoot, Amy C. Moors, William J. Chopik

published 04 Feb 2026

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The influence of stigma on PrEP uptake among adolescent girls and young women in Johannesburg, South Africa and Mwanza, Tanzania: Qualitative findings from the EMPOWER study

Anne L. Stangl, Caitlin Bryan, Iman Barré, Lethabo Ramskin, Shelley Lees, Nomhle Ndimande-Khoza, Deborah Baron, Manuela Colombini, Sheila Harvey, Saidi Kapiga, Fiona Scorgie, Sinéad Delany-Moretlwe

published 03 Feb 2026

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Assessing the relationship between menstrual products and reproductive and urogenital tract infections (RUTIs): A systematic review evaluating the evidence and recommendations for future research

Ana Krause, Gregory K. Zane, Andrea C. Rivas-Nieto, Abigail Mulugeta, Md. Rezaul Hossain, R. Scott McClelland, Jairam R. Lingappa, Stephen E. Hawes

published 22 Dec 2025

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Caregivers’ perspectives on factors influencing adolescent girls’ engagement in sexual risk-taking in Uganda: A qualitative study

Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Fred M. Ssewamala, Flavia Namuwonge, Florence Namuli, Proscovia Nabunya, ICHAD Field Team

published 18 Dec 2025

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Micro and macro structural brain plastic changes induced by sexual experience in male rats

Zacnite Mier-Quesada, Lorena Gaytán-Tocaven, Alberto Prado, Raúl G. Paredes

published 28 Oct 2025

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Early childhood risk and protective factors and their association with adolescent sexual behaviors: A Latent Class Analysis

Qingyang Liu, Sara A. Vasilenko, Xiafei Wang, Rachel A. Razza

published 06 Oct 2025

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Estimating the population size of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in four major provinces in Canada: A descriptive study using data from a population-based survey

Felipe Tavares Duailibe, David Moore, Mark Hull, Viviane D. Lima

published 11 Sep 2025

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Validation of the Multidimensional Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-M) in the Chilean population

Oriana Figueroa, Pablo Polo, José Antonio Muñoz-Reyes, Rodrigo Ferrer, Gabriela Fajardo, Daniel Torrico-Bazoberry

published 14 Aug 2025

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Pregnancies, intentions, and fertility behaviors during use of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System after initial intention to avoid pregnancy: Results from the Creighton Model effectiveness, intentions, behaviors assessment study

Joseph B. Stanford, Shahpar Najmabadi, Chun-Pin Esther Chang, Daniel Opoku Agyemang, Kathy Rivet, Christina A. Porucznik

published 29 Jul 2025

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Prevalence of, and factors associated with oral sexual behaviours in men and women in Ibadan, Nigeria

Imran Oludare Morhason-Bello, Adekunle Daniel, Akinyele Adisa, Kathy Baisley, Isaac Adewole, Rasheed Bakare, Robert Murphy, Lifang Hou, Silvia de Sanjosé, Suzanna C. Francis, Deborah Watson-Jones

published 16 Jul 2025

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Multi-level factors influencing HIV risk behaviors and oral PrEP use among Black and Latino men with heterosexual contact in New York City

Ohshue S. Gatanaga, Dalila Victoria Lanza, Robert A. Pitts, Ronald S. Braithwaite, Sahnah Lim

published 11 Jul 2025

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