Gender Affirming Graft Only Vaginoplasty.

Objective: To describe our technique for performing gender affirming graft only vaginoplasty.

Methods: In graft only vaginoplasty, penile skin is used only for the external genitals, and the entire vaginal canal is created from a full thickness skin graft. The inner scrotum is excised and used as a skin graft to line the vaginal canal.

Genital Gender Affirming Surgery.

Genital gender affirming surgery is an effective treatment for gender dysphoria in transgender individuals. Optimization of medical and mental health conditions, including coordination with a patient's entire care team, is essential. Feminizing procedures include vaginoplasty (creation of female genitalia with a vaginal canal) and vulvoplasty (creation of female genitalia with a short or absent vaginal canal).

Transrectal Ultrasound MRI-Fusion Biopsy of Perirectal Mass.

This case report describes the novel use of ultrasound-guided MRI-fusion biopsy to sample an extraluminal perirectal mass. This is a 64-year-old man with a history of pT3N2b mucinous adenocarcinoma of the right colon with metastatic disease to the mesocolic lymph nodes. Two years after initial resection he was found on restaging CT to have a mass measuring ∼4.

Tobacco crop substitution: pilot effort in China.

In China, approximately 20 million farmers produce the world's largest share of tobacco. Showing that income from crop substitution can exceed that from tobacco growth is essential to persuading farm families to stop planting tobacco, grown abundantly in Yunnan Province. In the Yuxi Municipality, collaborators from the Yuxi Bureau of Agriculture and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health initiated a tobacco crop substitution project.

Improving reproductive health knowledge in rural China--a web-based strategy.

In China, one of the major problems in upgrading rural health services is the difficulty of communicating between the rural and urban areas. Enabling local agencies to access the Internet in resource-poor areas can provide an efficient means of diffusing current training and information and will have far-reaching policy implications. To test the feasibility of using the Internet to deliver needed health information to the countryside, the UCLA School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Studies of Kunming Medical College (IHS-KMC) collaborated in an experimental website project to improve the quality of reproductive health services to promote women's health in three rural counties of Yunnan.

Evaluation of a web-based intervention for improving HIV/AIDS knowledge in rural Yunnan, China.

Objective: To improve HIV/AIDS knowledge among villagers and students in remote rural counties of Yunnan, China.

Design: The University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Sciences of Kunming Medical College, with the assistance of local health and community agencies, initiated a web-based intervention project. Nanhua county received computers, training on accessing the website, and ongoing logistic support for diffusing information to their village colleagues.

Reproductive health indicators for China's rural areas.

We report community-based development of reproductive health indicators for China's rural areas. To generate these indicators, we sequenced two participatory techniques known as nominal group process and Delphi survey methodology. Nominal group process entailed grassroots reproductive health workers' generating indicators, followed by refinement and prioritization of these indicators through a consensus-building Delphi process among nationally and internationally known reproductive health experts.

Community-based trial to prevent drug use among youths in Yunnan, China.

Objectives: This study evaluated a community-based program in China to prevent initiation of drug use in young men.

Methods: Similar intervention and control areas were selected. Village leaders, teachers, and women and youth leaders were recruited to participate in the program.

Diffusion of HIV/AIDS knowledge, positive attitudes, and behaviors through training of health professionals in China.

A study evaluated a training-of-trainers strategy to update HIV/AIDS knowledge and improve attitudes and behavior among health professionals and the public. A survey was carried out among health workers and villagers. An initial workshop was given to 55 staff from several health institutions.