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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Young women would accept age-based screening for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia, but would want this test to be offered to everyone, rather than to people 'singled out' according to their sexual history.In the study, published in the BioMed Central open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, the Australian women interviewed did not like discussing their sex lives with their GPs.
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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Mark Henderson; 10/5/08 The fight against the AIDS epidemic in Africa is founded on ineffective strategies and should focus on male circumcision and reducing promiscuity, according to leading scientists in the field. HIV containment is generally based on the “three pillars” - promotion and provision of condoms, HIV status testing and treatment of other sexually transmitted [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A study of young women in Australia said they would prefer age-based screening for the sexually transmitted infection Chlamydia if it was offered to all.
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Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
In her new article in The Times of London, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, who has researched HIV for more than 10 years, says political correctness has impeded the eradication of HIV in Africa. Specifically, that the many nations and medical groups working to prevent the spread of HIV are unwilling to express this truth: “HIV is [...]
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A UNC-Chapel Hill HIV/AIDS doctor has received the school's highest faculty award.
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Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A new study published in Science claims that funds for HIV prevention (like most funds directed at Africa, cynics might argue) are being wasted. Telling people to use condoms demonstrably doesn't work; asking them not to have sex is religion-inspired lunacy; testing for HIV has had little impact so far (although forthcoming research on this [...]
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Young women would accept age-based screening for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia, but would want this test to be offered to everyone, rather than to people singled out` according to their sexual history.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Sexually Transmitted DiseaseA Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), also known as Venerealdisease (VD), is a disease that is transmitted primarily bysexual contact including vaginal intercourse, oral sex and analsex. STDs are also transmitted via the needles, birth canal andbreast feeding. The infection may be bacterial, fungal, viral orprotozoan....
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
CLX Medical, Inc. Announces Increasing Interest and Sales of Zonda's Rapid Point of Care Test for ChlamydiaCLX Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXN), which is focused on the launch and distribution of unique medical diagnostic testing products, today announced that the company's European distributors have reported an increased interest in diagnostic testing products for chlamydia, which has resulted in increased...
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MyJoyonline (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has expressed concern about the increasing cases of Syphilis in most communities in the country especially among people between 40 and 50 years. Dr Thomas Agyarko-Poku, Ashanti Regional HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator, who expressed the sentiments, noted that the disease was more prevalent in the Central and Western Regions.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
THE State Government has been accused of failing to protect vulnerable children from sexually transmitted diseases, with 66 diagnosed already this year.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
MORE than 60 Western Australian children, including 53 Aboriginal youngsters, have been treated for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) since January.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
According to a recent study published in the journal PLoS ONE,researchers better understand why symmetry and sexual dimorphism arekey variables that determine how attractive a face is. Faces are important in transmitting social information among humans,and attractiveness is a quickly noted quality.
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On Deadline (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
While Saddam Hussein was being held in Baghdad, he wrote about his fear of catching AIDS or other "young people's diseases" from his U.S. military guards. Al-Hayat newspaper says that was among the revelations contained in Saddam's prison diaries, which...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Source: IRIN Millions of condoms will be distributed across Afghanistan in 2008 in a new drive to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, reduce maternal mortality and improve family planning, aid agencies and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said.
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nicolexue | 03/03/2008
1 Common, but on the decline Nationwide, at least 45 million people ages 12 and older -- or one out of five adolescents and adults -- have had genital herpes, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the herpes simplex viruses type 1 or type 2. Over the past decade, the percentage of Americans with genital herpes has decreased, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. It's more common...
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raimondo | 01/13/2008
Iran: AIDS rate doubles in the holy city of Qom Tehran, 11 Jan. (AKI) - In the past year, the incidence of AIDS has doubled in the holy Shia city of Qom, second only to the Iraqi city of Najaf in religious significance. "The great share of the newly infected have contracted the HIV virus, not through using infected syringes, but through unprotected sexual relations," said Amir, Akbari, director of
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wallarookiller | 11/12/2007
A new study finds that certain Std's can't be stopped by proper use of a condom. This is explaining the high amount of new cases of Hpv and other Std's such as...
