[Tuberculosis in day-to-day medical practice and the boomerang effect of neglect].

The scope of this study was to understand the perceptions and feelings of physicians dealing with tuberculosis (TB) in Rio de Janeiro. Eleven physicians working in a large public hospital were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. The interpretation of the interviews was based on hermeneutic-dialectic phenomenology.

["It takes two to tango": a study on inconsistent use of male condoms by adolescents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].

This study assessed gender-related aspects involved in the inconsistent use of male condoms by adolescents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Four focus groups were conducted, two with each gender, two in a public school and two in a private school, totaling 34 participants, comparing gender and social status. The resulting material was analyzed using a critical interpretative approach.

Third-party informed consent in research with adolescents: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Third-party informed consent for child and adolescent participation in research is a legal requirement that has been questioned by authors who argue that children over 10 are fully able to make decisions regarding this matter. The extent to which this requirement encumbers survey researches in this age range has not been fully reported. In order to understand the reasons for the inconsistent use of condoms among adolescent students in Rio de Janeiro, we designed a survey based on an anonymous self-reported questionnaire.