Objective: To obtain information about sexual transmitted diseases (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) behavioral risk factors and perceptions in adolescent women, ages between 16 and 17 years, who subscribed to obtain their military identification card. Design: Randomized anonymous, transversal study done in Lima and Callao during 2001. Material and methods: Auto applied questionnaire that used a structural equation model to conduce a path analysis. Results: Seven hundred and fifty-five adolescent women participated in this study, mean age 16,4±0,49 years, mean age at first sexual intercourse 15,4 years. There were risk behaviors related to STD/HIV/AIDS in the adolescents with reported active sexual life: 35,1% had an occasional sex partner, the proportion of global condom use was low (23,4%) while 16% reported two or more sexual partners in the past year, one third (33%) repo...

Objective: To quantify the inequalities of anemia in Peruvian children aged 6–59 months and uncover its contributing factors. Materials and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study based on the secondary data analysis of the 2021 Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Our sample included Peruvian children aged 6–59 months with complete data for the variables of interest. Anemia was defined as having a hemoglobin level of less than 11 g/dL, adjusted by altitude. Erreygers Concentration Index (ECI) and concentration curves were computed to estimate the socio-economic inequality in anemia among Peruvian children. Moreover, ECI was decomposed to figure out the contributing factors to the inequality of anemia and the residual variation. Results: Nationwide, the prevalence of anemia in Peruvian children was 29.47%. We found a pro-poor inequality regarding anemia at the national...