Articles Tagged With: partner
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With Domestic Violence Increasing, Family Planning Providers Should Screen for Signs
Recent research suggests domestic violence may be increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Family planning clinics will need creative techniques to screen for signs as many visits continue through telehealth.
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Study: Women Use Female Condoms More When Their Partners Approve
Female (internal) condoms were hailed as a method that gave women control over their disease protection. But one factor was overlooked: Women’s reproductive health decisions are influenced by male partners.
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Avoid Common Mistakes in Handling Medical Malpractice Claims
Although a medical malpractice claim can drag on for months or years, the ultimate outcome of the case may be determined by what happens in the first hours or days. Some mistakes and oversights can put you at a disadvantage when defending against the claim.
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Time to Close Gaps in HIV Testing, Treatment
About 80% of new HIV transmissions can be linked to people whose infection is undiagnosed or is not currently treated, according to findings from a just-published analysis.
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Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic violence and abuse is a national and global healthcare problem with massive consequences, affecting men, women, and children. Awareness, recognition, and resource allocation, in addition to trauma management, is an important aspect of emergent care of the trauma patient possibly injured in a domestic violence incident.
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Eliminate Barriers to Expedited Partner Therapy
Since 2006, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has recommended the use of expedited partner therapy (EPT) for treatment of sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhea and chlamydia, but the infection rate continues to climb.
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Research Focuses on Untreated Genital Warts and HIV Risk
New research indicates that genital warts may lead to a higher risk of acquiring HIV from a partner who is infected because anogenital warts may be especially susceptible to the infection.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Online Sex and Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Swingers Come Out; HIV-positive Patients Require Hepatitis B Vaccine
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Want new hires to have a valuable resource? Give them an ‘associate friend’
About 70% of patient access training at Jacksonville, FL-based Baptist Health now takes place on the job, instead of in a classroom.