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A papier mache condom would spell disaster in the bedroom, so it’s surprising to learn the unconventional contraceptive isn’t entirely useless.Standing almost two-metres tall and sporting a subtle lean, a giant blue condom was set amongst the trees of Springwood’s Manners Park on September 19, designed to nudge teens into talking about safe sex.Youth workers from Lower Mountains Youth Service

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KELLY Osbourne has revealed she gets tested for sexually transmitted diseases four times a year.The daughter of rocker Ozzy, 23, said she drunkenly had unprotected sex in the past — but even if it is unnecessary, she gets tested for her own “peace of mind”.She also revealed mum Sharon, who survived colon cancer, fears Kelly will get the disease as she is on the Pill — or if she goes near a

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The government of Botswana, along with Population Services International, has distributed almost 60 million condoms in the country during the past two years in an attempt to scale up the fight against HIV/AIDS, Mmegi reports.

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Can AIDS be stopped in Africa? The temptation, when we confront suffering on such a ghastly scale, is to assume it's beyond human control. But it's not. We know we can contain the spread of HIV, because vulnerable nations have already succeeded. Senegal has held its infection rate below 2 percent throughout the epidemic. And Uganda, once the plague's epicenter, cut its infection rate by half

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HEALTH chiefs are poised to target the Cumbrian schools with the highest teen pregnancy rates in a push to educate young people.The county’s public health boss wants to encourage a new culture where children talk openly about sex from a very young age and parents are no longer prudish or embarrassed.Prof John Ashton also wants to see dedicated teen health centres being set up across the county,

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A £3M sexual health centre opens in Manchester today aiming to provide faster, easier access to tests and treatment.The Hathersage Centre, on the corner of Hathersage Road and Upper Brook Street, will offer confidential, free care and counselling on a range of needs, including contraception, pregnancy, sexually-transmitted infections and HIV.The clinic will have a drop-in service, so most people

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A RECORD number of HIV cases have been diagnosed in Wales over the past year – the highest rate since the start of the epidemic nearly 30 years ago.The latest NHS figures show a total of 172 new patients were confirmed with the virus – a rise over the previous year which was also a record with 154 new cases.Doctors today confirmed that unprotected sex was by far the biggest cause of the spread

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In a first-ever analysis, 25 percent of all teenage girls in the U.S. and nearly half of African-American girls ages 14 to 19 were found to have a sexually transmitted disease. Those alarming rates suggest that admonitions to teenagers about safe sex are falling on deaf ears and that when it comes to infectious diseases, a lot more effort must be put into education, screening and prevention.Some

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New Delhi: Real men use condoms. That’s the message BBC's latest campaign aims to impart. But how comfortable are we talking about the ‘C’ word in this day and age?As part of its ‘Jo Bole Wohi Sikandar’ campaign, BBC has released an advertisement in five different languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telgu, Kanada and Marathi. The message is simple: real men use condoms."Aim of the campaign to get

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MAPUTO, Mozambique, 28 February 2008 – Every week, activists from Kindlimuka, an association of people living with HIV, visit primary schools in Maputo to discuss with students the ways they can protect themselves against HIV.Through lively debates and discussions, children learn the life skills they need to make informed choices. The UNICEF-assisted HIV Prevention School Programme also includes

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Some of the young people who seek help at the Youth Information and Orientation Centre for Reproductive Health (CIOJ) in N'Djamena, capital of Chad, do not understand how they became pregnant or contracted a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Workers at the centre blame the high levels of ignorance on the failure of parents to talk to their children about sex. CIOJ was set up by a local

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On February 28 sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and the New Deal for Communities programme (NDC) are holding a launch event for a new young people’s sexual health clinic in Coventry. The event will be held at Henley Green Community Centre on February 28 from 4 -7pm. The clinic, aimed at under 25s, will test and treat young people for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and

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Patronage of condoms in parts of Accra has increased significantly as the euphoria of the 26th Africa Cup of Nations (Ghana 2008) heightens.Enquiries made by the Daily Graphic indicate that about 1.5 million free condoms have so far been distributed by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), while sale of the product at some commercial outlets has also shot up. The shopping mart at the La Beach Shell

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Brasilia - Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao guaranteed Wednesday that there will be enough free condoms for anyone needing them during Carnival festivities across the country. "We have distributed 20 million condoms for this Carnival. We are going to distribute 600 million male condoms throughout this year," the minister said in a press conference.Gomes Temporao was responding to

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Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) Young Leaders Project is inviting groups of young people to apply for small grants to create and deliver their own sex and relationship education projects. The grants are to educate their friends and the wider community on issues relating to sexually transmitted infections, sexual health and HIV. THT is looking for 13-19 year olds in London, Eastern England, the South

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Teenagers are being educated about the dangers of sex and alcohol in a new scheme being run in the borough's schools.Play Hard Party Safe is aimed at final year high school pupils and sixth formers.It has been launched to help address Bolton's problems with teenage pregnancy.The borough's figures are way above the national average - in England and Wales 41.3 under 18s per 1,000 fell pregnant in

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China rolled out its first major television campaign on Thursday to promote condom use to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, now mostly being transmitted by sex in the world's most populous country.The short public service announcements will mainly be shown on screens in buses, trains and planes, on the Internet, in entertainment venues, and on some state television channels.They

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Surkhet, Dec. 3: Surkhet in mid-west Nepal has become the hotbed district for HIV and AIDS. Almost 60 per cent of the people go to India for work and they come back with the virus which are transmitted to their wives and community.Dev Prasad Gautam, section secretary at the Nepal Red Cross Society, said there could be at least 500 to 600 people in Surkhet living with HIV and AIDS.Going to India

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No, because there's too many young tarts having babies.Simmone Hasler, 18, RokebyNo. Sex ed is boring so no one pays attention to it.Kana Cantrell, 16, RokebyYes, I think so.Whitney Garth, 19, Clifton BeachIt varies. Some families do and some don't.Ted Cooper, 58, South ArmI don't think it's as much about safe sex as it is about responsibility - being responsible for their actions.Kara Johnston,

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THE United Nations Women's Fund (UNIFEM), estimates that of the 38.6 million adults living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2002, 19.2 million (nearly 50%) were women. It adds that the rate of new infections among women is increasing faster than those among men.This indicates a rise in incidence or prevalence among women due to biological, social and economic factors. It is not surprising when some

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People were last night urged to heed the safe sex message after a study revealed a shock increase in cases of sexually transmitted infections across Ulster.Research released annually by the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Northern Ireland (CDSCNI) also shows that an outbreak of syphilis which began in early 2001 continues unabated.Consultant epidemiologist Dr Neil Irvine said the

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Better sex education in schools and condom advertising targeted at young people are key to tackling the nation’s sex disease epidemic, according to an expert.
 
A recent report by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) found that diagnoses of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Illnesses (STIs) were increasing.
 
The results for NHS South East Coast, the Strategic Health Authority covering Kent,

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A packet of condoms should be at the top of everyone's Christmas wish list, according to one charity. Oxfam is offering the unusual gift as one of five "Positive Pressies" launched this year as part of a new campaign to tackle HIV and Aids.The campaign, launched to tie in with World Aids Day, will help to directly tackle the spread of HIV by encouraging safe sex and providing condoms.Anyone who

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Chairwoman of the National AIDS Council Nafsiah Mboi has clarified that an aggressive condom-use campaign does not endorse promiscuity.Speaking at the official launch of National Condom Week in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Saturday, Nafsiah warned against a common misconception: "National Condom Week doesn't legalize free sex ... we do not approve of this. But if we already have youths who are

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's government announced plans to put condom-dispensing machines in public schools to help teenagers reduce the spread of AIDS.The health and education ministries and the United Nations sponsored a nationwide contest for students to design the dispenser. Three potential models were selected on Friday, the government news agency Agencia Brasil said.Condom

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Jakarta (1 December) - Saturday was World AIDS Day. The United Nations says 33 million people are infected with the HIV virus which can cause the disease. New figures indicate that Indonesia currently has the world's highest rate of increase in new cases. Indonesia's first ever campaign against HIV/AIDS, which will encourage the use of condoms, was launched on Saturday.China, which for many years

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PARIS (AFP) — Activists and global leaders used World AIDS Day Saturday to warn against complacency in fighting the disease and called on governments to fill a multi-billion-dollar funding gap."We have made tangible and remarkable progress on all these fronts. But we must do more," United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a message for World AIDS Day.The highlight of events across the

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Women are the key to battling the HIV/Aids pandemic, and improving their rights is one of the most effective ways of tackling the disease, charities such as ActionAid say.Here, to mark World Aids Day on Saturday, Lihle Dlamini, a South African who is HIV positive, explains why it is so important that women speak up. Lihle became infected in her early twenties during a relationship with a

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HIV and sexual health charity, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is calling for people from the African community to get involved in World AIDS Day on December1, either by attending an event, making a donation to support local HIV services, or wearing a red ribbon to raise awareness.World AIDS Day, which has been running every December since 1988, is dedicated to raising awareness of the disease. In

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World AIDS Day is celebrated around the globe on 1 December, highlighting the progress made in the battle against the epidemic and brings into focus remaining challenges.The theme for World AIDS Day remains ''Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise''. This is an appeal to governments, policy makers and regional health authorities to ensure that they meet the many targets that have been set in the fight

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Paris has long been known as the city of love, but a submission at Colorado State University's condom concoction competition put a different slant on the idea.A 3-foot tall replica of the Eiffel Tower, built entirely out of condoms, was one of about a dozen creations featured at the event, held as part of World AIDS Day activities at CSU this week.The event, held for the first time this year, was

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BEIJING -- Chinese police are to stop arresting women who carry condoms, traditionally seen as evidence of prostitution, in an effort to help curb the spread of AIDS, state press said Friday.Despite efforts to stop the practice, women in China are still being sent to labor camps for prostitution offences merely because they were carrying condoms when detained by police, the report said, quoting

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Officials of the Msunduzi Municipality will do their bit to mark World Aids Day on Saturday by handing out condoms at intersections in Pietermaritzburg.Mayor Zanele Hlatshwayo, her deputy, Mervin Dirks, Municipal Manager Rob Haswell, Speaker Alpha Shelembe and Chief Whip Sehla Ngubane would hand the condoms and snack bars with the slogan "Each of us matters, HIV and Aids can be prevented" on

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The world's first "safe sex passport" will be launched in the United States tomorrow to coincide with World Aids Day. Aimed at those who find love over the internet, the passport is a way of letting the users of dating and social networking sites find out whether the person they have their eye on has a clean sexual bill of health.The passport's creator, Gonzalo Paternoster, said he was inspired

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Three in four young women do not have safe sex in casual relationships, a survey shows. This puts them at risk of infections which could affect their fertility, experts have warned. The poll found that three-quarters of women between 16 and 30 did not insist on a condom. But only 64 per cent of men in this age group admit to not always using one.Meanwhile, one in four men and women polled wrongly

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Rajyashree Choudhuri, chief of the Institute of International Social Development (IISD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), said the idea proceeded from formal surveys which showed that sex workers in Sonagachi, the largest red light area in the city, entertained more than five clients a day on average. "Many of them were married or had regular relationships too. So we encouraged them to have

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-44843700802501972402007-11-19T12:05:00.001-08:002007-11-19T12:07:34.564-08:00

From 15 November 2007 HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be encouraging young people in Birmingham and Solihull to be tested for Chlamydia by handing out test kits across the region. The charity is working with the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust on behalf of all Birmingham and Solihull NHS Trusts and hopes to get more people taking the test by

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From 15 November 2007 HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be encouraging young people in Birmingham and Solihull to be tested for Chlamydia by handing out test kits across the region. The charity is working with the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust on behalf of all Birmingham and Solihull NHS Trusts and hopes to get more people taking the test by

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-81606046150591060602007-10-30T08:43:00.000-07:002007-10-30T08:44:42.501-07:00

ABOUT half of Swakopmund's shebeens that receive a free supply of condoms from NGOs in an attempt to fight the spread of HIV are selling them to customers - sometimes for as much as N$8 per packet of four.According to a recent survey by the Swakopmund District AIDS Committee (DAC), about 50 per cent of those who answered a questionnaire on condom supply, availability and distribution indicated

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Looking around and seeing the number of young girls who are falling pregnant as well as the large number of unplanned and unwanted babies that people have, at times adults, who society expects to know better, show that there is need for more work to be done around educating each other about the importance of safe practices.Discussing reproductive health issues with friends on the sidelines of a

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COUNTERFEIT condoms which do not provide an effective barrier to pregnancy and disease may be on sale in Waltham Forest, Trading Standards officers have warned.The alarm was raised by a member of the public in Hackney who reported that the condoms he bought were smaller than usual, not lubricated and had a dry texture.A total of 1,500 boxes of the fakes were subsequently seized. As a result there

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Children in care could be offered condoms under proposals due to be approved by county councillors. New guidelines, which have to be approved by Lancashire County Council, will set out "very restricted circumstances" in which carers can give young people contraception and pregnancy testing kits.County Hall bosses state that the move is designed to cut down on teenage pregnancies and

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CONDOM cards are now available to young people, giving them access to free contraceptives.Gravesham Council has been working in partnership with independent community youth charity The Beat Project to help reduce teenage pregnancy rates in the borough.People aged under 19 can register for a card at one of two Gravesham registration points.Youngsters can register on the second floor of Gravesend

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CONDOM cards are now available to young people, giving them access to free contraceptives.Gravesham Council has been working in partnership with independent community youth charity The Beat Project to help reduce teenage pregnancy rates in the borough.People aged under 19 can register for a card at one of two Gravesham registration points.Youngsters can register on the second floor of Gravesend

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The stability of the world depends on safe sex, according to a Boston University demographer who addressed the future of human population last night at the School of Management.The world's population affects and is affected by culture, economy and environment, said Joel Cohen, a visiting professor at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.Cohen

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BANGKOK (Reuters Life!) - A Thai bank is pitching into the battle against HIV/AIDS and handing out condoms to customers too shy to get them at the shop.Despite Bangkok's reputation as one of the world's sex industry centers, Thailand is a generally conservative country.Kasikorn Bank launched the "Condoms for Confidence" campaign at 600 branches nationwide and said it would start giving out the

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The executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is urging action as concerns the transmission of HIV to children through sexual abuse, incest and early teenage sex.Many outreach programmes target HIV-positive pregnant women and young children, and progress is being made in this arena, Peter Piot told IPS during a recent conference at Harvard Medical School in the

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MUMBA (Reuters Life!) - After handling mature themes like marital blues and surrogate motherhood, Bollywood is making a film on teenage pregnancy, a sign that more serious scripts are becoming popular with viewers."Tere Sang" (With You), to be directed by Satish Kaushik, aims to inform viewers about unsafe sex and raise the issue of providing sex education, especially to Indian youth.Sex

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Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) Young Leaders Project is launching the ‘You Know You’ campaign today. The campaign is calling for young people across England to get involved in a new sex and relationship education project.THT is looking for 13-19 year olds in London, Eastern England, the South East, the South West, the West Midlands, the North West and Yorkshire and Humberside to get involved. Each

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GETTING the message of safer sex to pupils is the aim of a new production organised by Ware based charity Herts Aid.The HIV and Aids support group is using a £5,000 grant from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to educate teenagers about the dangers of unprotected sex.Outreach worker Steve Adair: "There are three main objectives we want the production to get across... how taking drugs or

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THE Lothians has bucked the national trend with a fall in the number of sexually-transmitted infections recorded this year. Cases of chlamydia and gonorrhoea in the region dropped by nearly ten per cent, despite a rise across Scotland generally.The fall follows a series of controversial initiatives in the Lothians, including giving condoms to children as young as 13 and providing free home-test

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The number of sexually transmitted diseases is rising across the St. Louis area, most notably among teenagers and young adults.In the city of St. Louis, for example, the number of chlamydia cases climbed from 3,206 in 2002 to 4,581 last year. Of those, 41 percent were people 15 to 19 years old.In St. Louis County, 7,100 residents were diagnosed last year with either chlamydia or gonorrhea, up

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Students at an East Yorkshire college were today being offered free tests for chlamydia in a bid to combat the spread of England's most prevalent sexually transmitted infection (STI).Staff from the Chlamydia Awareness Screening Programme for Hull and East Riding (Caspher) were on the Bridlington campus of East Riding College to speak to students about the dangers of the disease and carry out

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The government has done much to raise the profile of sexual health but more can be done, says David Evans Figures published by the HPA over the summer showed a rise in new diagnoses of almost all sexual infections, with the exception of gonorrhoea. This is to be expected. Advertising about the availability and need for testing is increasing and testing venues, especially for chlamydia and HIV,

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Young People Deserve the Facts of Life – From Their ParentsFamily First is welcoming the ERO report on sex education reports and says it should be a wake-up call to parents to get involved in the process.“The current curriculum is flawed because it doesn’t tell the truth, and doesn’t involve parents in the process,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.The first flaw with the

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Most schools are failing to meet students' needs in sex education lessons, casting doubt on classroom efforts to cut the number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.The Education Review Office assessed the quality of sexuality education programmes in Years 7 to 13 in 100 primary and secondary schools and found many were adopting a "one size fits all" approach.

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NO condom, no way' was the message of Sexual Health Week as advisers hit the streets of Redbridge to talk to teenagers. As many as ten per cent of young people in the borough are estimated to have a sexually transmitted infection and officers from the Children's Trust spent the week in Ilford's Exchange Mall offering information on the use of condoms and the morning after pill. Youngsters wrote

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Can she get pregnant while taking a hot, steamy bath together, even if we have swimsuits on?The short answer to this question is "NO". There are many myths out there about what will and will not cause a woman to get pregnant. These myths are even more prominent in some of the more conservative religious family cultures because sex is simply not talked about in the home, so the kids grow up

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Imagine being the health minister of Papua New Guinea, a poor country confronting one of the fastest growing Aids epidemics but which can call on the services of fewer than 300 doctors.Or of Ethiopia, which has one doctor for every 100,000 people.In many sub-Saharan countries, the public health infrastructure is so inadequate and incomplete that they do not have anywhere near enough refrigerated

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Children living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries need access to specialized antiretroviral drugs and other treatments, Annette Sohn, an assistant professor at the University of California-San Francisco's pediatric infectious disease division, said on Wednesday at the 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Sydney, Australia, AFP/iafrica.com reports (Sands, AFP/

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Pharmacists and Primary Care Organisations planning for Sexual Health Week 2007 (6 - 12 August) can now order Ask about sexual health, a leaflet from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) which promotes the specialist services available from community pharmacies.

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Chlamydia and genital warts, the most prevalent sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers, are on the rise, the latest Health Protection Agency figures reveal.The figures show chlamydia infections among under-16s rose from 61.6 per 100,000 in 2005 to 65.6 per 100,000 in 2006, and among 16- to 19-year-olds infections rose from 914 per 100,000 in 2005 to 929.4 per 100,000 in 2006.Similarly, new

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Young fathers are to be targeted by the Government's new teenage parenting strategy and teenage mums are to be encouraged to stay at home with their parents wherever possible.The Teenage Parents Next Steps strategy, published last week by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, offers guidance to local authorities and primary care trusts on what is expected of local services in terms

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Clinics for people with sexually transmitted infections are unable to treat patients properly because they don't have the right information, according to health watchdogs.Gaps in data make it difficult for health workers to find and provide services for high-risk groups or to monitor levels of sexual health in England, said the Healthcare Commission. As a result, government moves to tackle a huge

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More cash needs to be pumped into sex education to curb rising abortion rates in Bolton, claims a leading expert. The number of women opting for a termination has increased from 960 in 2005, to 1,026 last year. Now a leading family planning group is calling for more investment into sex education.

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The issue of women continuing to be at higher risk of HIV infection than men has received considerable attention at a gathering of women's affairs ministers from Commonwealth countries underway in Uganda's capital, Kampala.Of the 53 Commonwealth member states, 38 are represented at the '8th Triennial Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting' (8WAMM), being held under the theme 'Financing

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UK teenagers are facing a "sexual health crisis" fuelled by alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour, a report warns.They are "defining their lifestyle" by this behaviour, encouraged by celebrity culture, the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV says. The increase in sexually-transmitted infections and high teenage pregnancy rates are "disturbing", it says.The Department of Health

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DURBAN (Reuters) - South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said. The call to increase circumcisions in boys as well as some adults comes in the wake of growing evidence that the practice could offer men as well and their sexual

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The 2012 Olympics in London provide a huge opportunity to promote condom use and awareness of HIV, according to a leading charity. The Terrence Higgins Trust said the competition was a "magnet" for sexual activity and could lead to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. The charity urged the government to use the event to promote sexual health.

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Four of England's biggest surveys into the sexual health of the adult population have been launched today by Sigma Research, a social research group from the University of Portsmouth. For the first time, and in an attempt to reduce the spread of HIV, African people in England will be invited to take part in a survey about sexual health and HIV. Lesbian and bisexual women about whose sexual health

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Young people in Tower Hamlets are being encouraged to attend a sexual health clinic in Bow to get advice on sexually transmitted infections, contraception, relationships and self esteem. The clinic, run by Terrence Higgins Trust on Mondays and Wednesdays, is aimed specifically at under 25s. As well as offering one to one and group advice, the clinic also offers chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing,

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MORE teenage girls in Edinburgh have had abortions carried out than ever before with an average of one a day now going through the trauma. The record level today sparked renewed calls for changes to sex education in city schools - but with competing demands as to the direction of the changes.

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In my first blog posting, I tackled the subject of the lack of comprehensive sexuality education in Canadian schools; last week a newspaper article in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper looked at teen pregnancy and abortion. The article entitled "Teen pregnancies drop to a new low, abortions continue decline" was written by public health reporter André Picard and details how "the teenage pregnancy

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-55233250945033592372007-05-22T22:31:00.000-07:002007-05-22T22:32:37.639-07:00

Malaysia's Ministry of Health cannot openly promote condom use to prevent the spread of HIV because it could be misinterpreted as advocating promiscuity, deputy director for the Ministry of Health Jalal Halil Khalil said Sunday in conjunction with International AIDS Memorial Day, Malaysia's New Straits Times reports. Promotion of condom use will be handed over to nongovernmental organizations,

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Latest Research Shows New Zealand Youth Understand Risks But Don't Practise Safer SexFemales have more sexual partners, have sex earlier & less likely to use condoms Fear of rejection driving unsafe sex - and regrets come later Youth positive about condoms but 'don't roll on' at crunch time. An on-line study into the sexual behaviour and attitudes of young New Zealanders has found that while the

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GPs are being given extra training to help them treat patients with sexual health problems.The move is part of plans for more GP surgeries to deal with cases instead of hospital clinics, as health services struggle to cope with a huge rise in infections across East Lancashire. Medics in Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley have been swamped by the number of new cases, according

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-53409853450109185792007-05-16T14:36:00.000-07:002007-05-16T14:38:33.652-07:00

One practice nurse in six has not been trained in contraception and sexual health, while 40 per cent have not had updated training in the past two years. The survey of 1,000 practice nurses across England conducted by the National AIDS Trust found that practice nurses are eager to do more to help improve sexual health and are often the first port of call for patients who have sexual health

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In the United States, teen birth, teen abortion and sexually transmitted infection rates are higher than in most other industrialized countries. In 1999, 48 out of 1,000 U.S. women ages 15 to 19 gave birth -- a rate 11 times greater than in the Netherlands and four times higher than in Germany. The teen abortion rate in the United States is more than three times that of France and nearly seven

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MEDFIELD -- On April 26, Montrose School hosted a presentation by Dr. Meg Meeker, author of the book “Epidemic: How Teen Sex is Killing Our Kids.” A pediatrician with a practice in Michigan, Meeker has taken up the cause of debunking the “myth of safe sex” and makes the bold claim that this false message is actually killing kids.

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There have been many stories written on people living with AIDS, but this one is unusual. It centers on the experience of a reverend who, to this day, does not know how he was infected. The Rev. Canon Gideon Baguma Byamugisha of the Church of England recently spoke with The Jakarta Post's Agnes Winarti about how he manages to continue living and working despite the virus.

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Ignorance about sex is widespread in the land of the Kama Sutra, where explicit sex acts are celebrated in ancient temple architecture. But at home, mothers hesitate to talk to daughters about something as simple as menstruationMOVES to bring sex out of the closet in largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates, and

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-69616100943062850572007-05-10T13:33:00.001-07:002007-05-15T02:14:46.090-07:00

THE sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer also sharply increases the risk of throat cancer among people infected through oral sex, a new study says.The study, involving 300 subjects with and without throat cancer, found that those infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV) were 32 times more likely to develop one form of oral cancer than those free of the virus. Although

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-12043565678311016272007-05-10T13:30:00.000-07:002007-05-15T02:13:44.955-07:00

The board will replace the abstinence-only curriculum passed last year by conservatives.TOPEKA The Kansas Board of Education is set to reverse itself again, this time on controversial standards on the teaching of sex education. Those standards, passed last year by the board’s then conservative majority, recommended an abstinence-until-marriage curriculum and the use of parental permission slips

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A bar has opened in India offering free condoms to drinkers.The Condom Bar in the northern city of Chandigarh aims to promote HIV awareness.It is hoped visitors will take the samples without feeling embarrassed.India still has a very conservative outlook when it comes to topics like sex and HIV/Aids and people generally refrain from talking about these topics.

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Teens who use condoms the very first time they have sex are half as likely to test positive for sexually transmitted diseases several years later, a U.S. study has found.The survey, released last week, involved more than 4,000 sexually active adolescents who were questioned between 1994 and 2002.In addition to having lower rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea, the individuals who were followed were

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-20721373679784730352007-05-03T00:08:00.000-07:002007-05-14T16:52:58.690-07:00

A recent official report says that pregnancy rates for teenage girls under 16 in the UK continue to rise although the situation is getting better in some areas of the country where significant decreases have been reported.The latest country wide figures from the Office of National Statistics show that 7,917 girls under 16 became pregnant in 2005, only a slight increase from the 2004 figures.

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-19396764187767171692007-05-02T23:17:00.000-07:002007-05-14T16:53:17.005-07:00

Terrence Higgins Trust, Newcastle Primary Care Trust and MESMAC North East are working together to launch a rapid HIV testing service in Newcastle on May the 1st. The ‘Fastest’ clinic is aimed at gay and bisexual men and will offer a one hour HIV testing service - results from sexual health clinics can take several days.The aim of the ‘Fastest’ service is to provide an alternative testing

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-70902328722447542032007-05-02T14:12:00.000-07:002007-05-14T16:53:43.699-07:00

More than one in three gay men with HIV have unprotected sex, a survey says. The University College London poll of 2,640 men in Manchester, Brighton and London also revealed a fifth of gay men without HIV do the same. Researchers said it was worrying, and called for a renewed push to discourage risky behaviour, the Sexually Transmitted Infections journal said.

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Young people are learning about sex and relationships from soaps, magazines, adverts and their friends. The media is full of confusing messages about sex - it can seem like everyone is doing it all the time. Talking with their parents helps young people to: be safer, feel less anxious and make up their own minds. It also gives them the confidence to talk to future partners about their

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-14198513863145870002007-04-30T23:15:00.000-07:002007-05-14T16:54:52.651-07:00

Survey shows many Primary Care Trusts fail to take sexual health seriouslyGovernment initiatives making sexual health a priority are not reaching many local services, a survey from Terrence Higgins Trust and professional associations shows today. In the annual survey, Disturbing Symptoms, two thirds of specialist clinicians reported sexual health services were not given local priority in 2006

Blandinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07758738332348596792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872545019243948162.post-8627105334135907162007-04-29T05:51:00.000-07:002007-05-14T16:54:29.847-07:00

Many students are heading off to university completely clueless about condoms. Survey results published by Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and the National Union of Students (NUS) today show over a third of students thought latex condoms had holes in them large enough to allow HIV to pass through. More than one in ten didn’t know how to put a condom on properly and 16% thought that using two condoms

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