Dr. Aletha Yvette Akers MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
3401 Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Aletha Akers is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Akers specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Akers can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Akers can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1999
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Older women and HIV testing: examining the relationship between HIV testing history, age, and lifetime HIV risk behaviors.
- In their own voices: rural African-American youth speak out about community-based HIV prevention interventions.
- In their own voices: rural African American youth speak out about community-based HIV prevention interventions.
- "When you got nothing to do, you do somebody": A community's perceptions of neighborhood effects on adolescent sexual behaviors.
- Understanding social capital and HIV risk in rural African American communities.
- A qualitative exploration of the role of social networks in educating urban African American adolescents about sex.
- Translational research applications for the study of adolescent sexual decision making.
- Racial disparities in human papillomavirus vaccination: does access matter?
- Racial and ethnic differences in young men's sex and contraceptive education.
- Racial and/or Ethnic Differences in Formal Sex Education and Sex Education by Parents among Young Women in the United States.
- Teaching Trainees to Deliver Adolescent Reproductive Health Services.
- Adolescents and parental caregivers as lay health advisers in a community-based risk reduction intervention for youth: baseline data from Teach One, Reach One.
- If You Do Not Ask, They Will Not Tell: Evaluating Pregnancy Risk in Young Women
- Disparities in Body Mass Index Trajectories From Adolescence to Early Adulthood for Sexual Minority Women.
- Evaluating Teach One Reach One-An STI/HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention to Enhance Adult-Youth Communication About Sex and Reduce the Burden of HIV/STI.
Treatments
- Pregnancy
- Pain
- Menstrual Cramps
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