Archive for the ‘Sexual Health / STDs’ Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Two University of Kentucky researchers from the department of communication in the UK College of Communications and Information Studies have learned that targeted mass media campaigns alone can be effective in convincing high sensation-seeking, impulsive decision-making young adults to adopt safer sex practices.Past public health campaigns, particularly those promoting healthy ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Starting today in Atlanta, the Trojan Evolve tour will travel across the U.S. raising awareness regarding the poor state of sexual health in America and urging Americans to petition for change. The fact is, this is not a sexually healthy nation, and the Evolve tour is designed to address ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has published its updated 1997 Report of the Working Party on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted diseases - a document which examines the place of pharmacists in the fight against these illnesses1. Ten years after the ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The Nigerian state of Anambra recently banned the promotion and distribution of what it calls "unnatural" contraceptives, including condoms, IRIN News reports. "Instead of teaching children how to use condoms and enjoy sex, they should be taught total abstinence," Amobi Ilika, the state commissioner for health, said when announcing ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Women ages 40 and older have more contraceptive options than in previous years, during which their contraceptive options were often limited to tubal ligation surgery and condoms, the AP/Google.com reports. According to the AP/Google.com, women ages 40 and older are a "complex group" in terms of contraception because some have ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Brazilian government on Monday opened a condom factory in the northwestern state of Acre that will produce condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon rainforest, Reuters reports. The factory will help reduce the country's dependence on imported condoms to fight the spread of HIV and will help preserve ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Thursday announced that Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, Palm Beach and Treasure Coast will buy two of five clinics that were previously operated by Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties, the Miami Herald reports (Samuels, Miami Herald, 4/4). PPFA suspended ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A recent CDC study that found 48% of black U.S. girls and young women ages 14 to 19 have at least one of four common sexually transmitted infections, compared with 20% of white and Hispanic teens, is "[s]adly" not a "new trend," Yolanda Young, host of the video blog spadeproject.com, ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
A recent CDC study that found that black teenage girls have "far greater rates of common" STIs, including human papillomavirus, chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis than whites, is "an issue that blacks can't afford to ignore," Yolanda Young, host of the video blog spadeproject.com, writes in a USA Today ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
After several health advocates and librarians commented that excluding 'abortion' as a search term in the world's largest reproductive health Web site amounts to censorship, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health decided to restore the search term. How the restriction was introduced in the first place is ...
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