PhD alumni Dennis Flores, Sharron Docherty and Michael Relf were recently featured in an article entitled "Improving family-based comm. Key to enhancing sexual health outcomes of GBQ adolescents" published on the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's website and picked up by eurekalert and newswise.

A research team led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) investigated and found that sex communication with parents throughout adolescence that excludes GBQ males’ same-sex concerns is a missed opportunity for targeted sexual risk reduction. This is particularly important considering male-to-male HIV sexual transmission accounts for 92 percent of new HIV infections among all adolescent males between ages 13 and 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Read the full story here)