Publications by authors named "Marlina D Nasution"
Background: Determination of vaginal distribution is important to the development of potential vaginal microbicidal or spermicidal products.
Study Design: This was a descriptive study of three imaging techniques with a randomized crossover assignment of two gels and activity status within each technique.
Method: Each of three sites utilized one technique.
Background: Little is known about pregnancy rates among sex workers (SWs) or the factors that predispose SWs to this risk. We aimed to estimate the pregnancy incidence rate among Madagascar SWs participating in an intervention trial promoting use of male and female condoms and assess the influence of various predictive factors on pregnancy risk.
Methods: SWs from two study clinics in Madagascar participated in a randomized trial to assess the effect of peer education and clinic-based counseling on use of male and female condoms and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Objectives: To assess whether individual clinic-based counselling as a supplement to peer education for male and female condom promotion leads to greater use of protection and lower STI prevalence among sex workers in Madagascar already exposed to intensive male condom promotion.
Methods: In two public dispensaries in Madagascar, a total of 901 sex workers were randomly allocated between two alternative male and female condom promotion
Interventions: peer education only, or peer education supplemented with individual clinic-based counselling. Participants were followed for 12 months.
Goal: To examine and compare young sex workers' risk of acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with the risk among their older counterparts.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of young age--16-19 years vs. 20 years and older--on risk of incident infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) or Chlamydia trachomatis (CT).