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Call for papers: Human rights as social and structural drivers of sexually transmitted infections

BMC Infectious Diseases and BMC International Health and Human Rights are delighted to announce the launch of a thematic series focused on highlighting novel studies characterizing human rights infringements as structural determinants of infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections. 

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Featured article: Confidential disclosure methods more effective in detecting sexual abuse

Modified from Photo Tony Ntumba/MONUSCO/Flickr

The sealed-envelope method was superior to face-to-face-interview in identifying cases of forced sex amongst primary school children, particularly for boys, indicating future surveys should make more use of confidential disclosure methods to detect childhood sexual abuse.

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1. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Bibliometric analysis of medicine – related publications on refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people: 2000 – 2015

   Waleed M. Sweileh

   Published on: 20 March 2017
2. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Wife beating refusal among women of reproductive age in urban and rural Ethiopia

   Eshetu Gurmu and Senait Endale

   Published on: 16 March 2017
3. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Methods to increase reporting of childhood sexual abuse in surveys: the sensitivity and specificity of face-to-face interviews versus a sealed envelope method in Ugandan primary school children

   Anna Louise Barr, Louise Knight, Ivan Franҫa-Junior, Elizabeth Allen, Dipak Naker and Karen M. Devries

   Published on: 23 February 2017
4. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Perceptions of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health and rights: a cross-sectional study in Lahore District, Pakistan

   Sarosh Iqbal, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar and Florian Fischer

   Published on: 23 February 2017
5. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Fine and Gray competing risk regression model to study the cause-specific under-five child mortality in Bangladesh

   Khandoker Akib Mohammad, Most. Fatima-Tuz-Zahura and Wasimul Bari

   Published on: 28 January 2017

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