Medically Accurate Sex Education - It's for the public good

          Many Texans mistakenly view sexual education, and moreover, teaching it to public school children, as a threat to family values and the idea of abstinence. However, this view is erroneous. As with all information-based education,...

UK -Mobile phone kits to diagnose STDs

UK - Mobile phone kits to diagnose STD s Soon your mobile will be able to diagnose weather or not you have an STD. Doctors and technology experts in the UK say there will soon be a kit, similar to a pregnancy...

Spread love, not infection...

Spread love, not infection...Alka Pande, CNS "Say Yes to Condom – No to HIV" "A Rupee saves a life" "Stay Negative Love Condom" "Love yourself, Love your partner, Love Condom" With these catchy slogans, a health organisation distributed condoms to people in New Delhi,...

April is STD Awareness Month

April is STD Awareness Month, a yearly observance to raise awareness about the impact of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on the health of all Americans. " To reduce the impact of STDs, it is important to...

Harnessing the Power of Internet: E-Card Warns, "Get Checked"

Public health officials have looked for ways to utilize the internet to conduct safe-sex education and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease, and inSpot, an on-line service that allows a sender to...

Mississippi Tops List for Teen Pregnancies

The Center for Disease Control has released information stating Mississippi as the leading state in teen pregnancies, stealing the top spots from New Mexico and Texas. The report reveals data gathered from birth...

Doctors Urge HIV Tests for All Patients Over 13

On World AIDS Day 2008, The American College of Physicians is recommending that all patients over age 13 get tested for the HIV virus which causes AIDS."The organization, which represents more than 126,000...

Playful campaign boosts India condom sales

As concern over the spread of HIV/AIDS in India became bigger, a campaign to boost the use of  condoms was launched. This is not the first time the use of condoms has been prescribed in India, but any effort...

Cyrus Sullivan Outs STD Carriers with Website

Cyrus Sullivan has created a site called STDCarriers.com, where he hopes to out STD carriers before they have a chance to infect more people after he himself contracted genital herpes from a girl who chose not to...

Got an STD? Send an inSPOT E-Card To Notify Partners

inSPOT.org was developed in 2004 by the Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS) for the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) in order to address the growing problem of STD notification between...

AIDS pandemic prevention shows stabilising signs but more funds are needed

According to a UNAIDS report, "the share of the world's population with HIV reached 0.8 percent in 2000 and has stayed roughly at this plateau ever since". This stabilising signs and the increasing use of condoms...

African homophobia fuels spread of HIV?

During a recent meeting at Limbé, Cameroon, AIDS activists warned that violence against gay people are fueling the spread of HIV in Africa.  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission  stated that 38 of the 53 countries in Africa...

The Banana-Flavored Big Deal

Girl forgets she left a banana flavored condom in her back pocket. While at school, Grandma finds the wrapper and declares, "“Oh, I’ve never tried banana flavored gum before!"Read Full Story...

UCLA Student Affairs -- Mens Health

Whether you are gay, bi, or just have sex with casual partners, it is important to learn what safer sex is all about. Find out what is safer sex about... It is not necessarily about eliminating passion from your sex life.

Nuns Behaving Badly

In what has been called the “tip of the iceberg” by a lay group that monitors sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church a nun has been brought up on criminal charges for allegedly sexually assaulting two boys...

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