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BACKGROUND: Youths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) account for a large burden of the global HIV/STI crises. As such, strategies directed at promoting behavioral modifications would be critical to reducing the prevalence of risky sexual behaviors among high risk adolescents in post-conflict environments. OBJECTIVES: This study describes a condom promotion strategy to prevent HIV/STIs among highly vulnerable urban youth in a post-conflict, resource-constrained environment via the provision of both male and female condoms to nontraditional venues like music and photo shops, ice cream parlors, money exchange centers and beauty salons. METHODS: Community members in the designated catchment areas volunteered their services and the use of their small businesses to support this endeavor. RESULTS: In this paper, we describe the condom promotion strategy and its implications within the context of a community-based participatory social marketing program to prevent risky sexual behaviors among highly vulnerable urban youth in a post-conflict country. CONCLUSION: We postulate that this approach may likely increase condom use among urban youth in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia.
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Condoms/statistics & numerical data , HIV Infections/prevention & control , Social Marketing , Adolescent , Commerce , Female , Health Promotion/methods , Humans , Liberia , Male , Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & control , Social Conditions , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
The capacity-building strategy used by a US-based research organisation, the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), to strengthen the system for the protection of human research subjects and the infrastructure of its international collaborating partner, the University of Liberia, are discussed. To conduct the much-needed biomedical and social science-based research-related activities in the future, this partnership is expected by PIRE to gradually evolve over time to strengthen the capacity of the local investigators and administrators of the University of Liberia. Accordingly, a unique opportunity to share technology and resources with a post-conflict, resource-constrained country is created by this partnership. This capacity-building model to strengthen the protection of human subjects in research can also be replicated in similar resource-constrained international settings and, accordingly, our experiences and limitations are shared in this paper.
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Developing Countries , Ethics, Research , Research Subjects , Warfare , Culture , Ethics Committees, Research , Humans , International Cooperation , Liberia , United StatesABSTRACT
This article reviews the essential clinical and pathologic features of a number of tumors of the dermis and epidermal appendages to help improve the clinician's skill at formulating preoperative differential diagnoses, assessing the need for treatment, and determining appropriate follow-up. In addition, it attempts to alert the practitioner to a number of heritable and systemic conditions that may be signalled by the presence of cutaneous tumors.
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Skin Diseases , Skin Neoplasms , Surgery, Plastic/methods , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Female , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Male , Skin Diseases/diagnosis , Skin Diseases/pathology , Skin Diseases/therapy , Skin Neoplasms/diagnosis , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/therapySubject(s)
Myxedema , Scleroderma, Localized , Cardiovascular Diseases/complications , Central Nervous System Diseases/complications , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Muscular Diseases/complications , Myxedema/complications , Myxedema/pathology , Myxedema/therapy , Paraproteinemias/complications , Prognosis , Scleroderma, Localized/complications , Scleroderma, Localized/pathology , Scleroderma, Localized/therapyABSTRACT
A patient is described in whom orange-brown discoloration occurred following occupational exposure to mahogany wood. Mahogany-induced dermatitis is reviewed.
