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Topic "Women's Health" in Khmer (cambodian) - total 8 documents
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INTRODUCTION
V annith Uy is the owner of what translates from Khmer as a "mobile nail salon", although the word salon is a stretch. It's a bicycle with a plastic crate on the back filled with hand lotions and nail polishes. Uy, 42, rides it around her Phnom Penh neighbourhood — a tangle of alleys near the river where the residents' domestic lives spill out of their open front doors — until a customer flags her down. She performs a manicure or pedicure on the spot, sitting on a plastic stool by the side of the street. Three years ago, when she arrived from the countryside, Uy had a different plan. She wanted to open a hair and beauty salon on proper premises in the Cambodian capital. The man was a police general who frequented the beer garden where Uy worked as a kitchen help, she says.
Background: We determined the prevalence of vaginal douching cleansing of the vagina with liquid in a sample of Cambodian women, and examined the associations of douching with genitourinary symptoms and infections, after controlling for potential confounding factors, including genitourinary symptoms and sociodemographic factors. Methods: A total of adolescent and adult females aged 15 to 49 years who attended 17 maternal and child health MCH clinics in 7 provinces of Cambodia in were consecutively enrolled as a part of the Sexually Transmitted Infection Sentinel Survey. Sociodemographic factors, genitourinary symptoms, and frequency of douching were assessed by face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire. Vaginal infections were examined by using standard diagnostic procedures specific to each pathogen.
