Background Sexual behaviour is a major determinant of sexual and reproductive health. We
did a National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal 2000) in 1999–2001 to …

Background Relatively high rates of teenage conception and sexually transmitted infection
among young people in Britain have focused attention on early sexual behaviour and its …

Background We did a meta-analysis to assess factors associated with disparities in HIV
infection in black men who have sex with men (MSM) in Canada, the UK, and the USA. Methods …

The study of sexual behaviour lies at the heart of understanding the transmission dynamics
of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Academic investigation into sexual behaviour dates …

Background The UK has had universal free health care and public health programmes for
more than six decades. Several policy initiatives and structural reforms of the health system …

… Kevin Fenton participated in the design and implementation of this study, supervised the C
trachomatis substudy, and was the lead writer. Christos Korovessis undertook the statistical …

The need for estimates of the extent of sexual function problems in the general population has
become more urgent given recent debates surrounding the identification and definition of “…

PURPOSE: To describe and contextualize changes in rates of human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) notifications in men who have sex with men (MSM) in eight countries (Australia, …

In large metropolitan areas, which typically have the highest rates of gonorrhea, the identification
of chains of transmission by use of partner notification is problematic, and there is an …

Background In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), knowledge about
health and its determinants has been integrated into a comparable framework to inform health …