An online survey of men who have sex with men (MSM) and their health service providers shows that the majority of respondents said most “gay men worldwide don’t have access to HIV testing, counseling or free condoms and lubricant, a new study finds,” according to a report by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV [...]
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Media outlets continued to track the major developments in HIV/AIDS this week, including: prevention research using an antiretroviral; new UNAIDS estimates of HIV/AIDS around the world; and Pope Benedict XVI’s stance on condoms for HIV prevention…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Pope’s Condom Comments Create Confusion: Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks in a new book that condom use may be acceptable in some cases prompted confusion and led to a clarification from the Vatican this week. CNN’s John Allen explained the significance of the comments (Whitfield, CNN, 11/20)…
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In parts of Asia, “policies outlawing sex work are undermining HIV/AIDS prevention efforts by fragmenting and stigmatizing the sex workers and turning condom possession into an act that could lead to jail time, NGO officials say,” IRIN reports (10/15)…
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Women’s health advocates hope a new product design and campaigns in several cities across the U.S. will encourage more women to consider female condoms to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, CNN reports…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Actor Posing as a Slave Promotes Forcing Women To Be Incubators,” Alex DiBranco, Change.org’s “Women’s Rights”: Abortion-rights opponents “seem to have decided that comparing women exercising control over their own bodies to the enslavement of African-Americans is an excellent campaign tactic,” DiBranco writes…
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The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city’s population over age 12 is HIV-positive…
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Men who consistently use condoms during sex are less likely to contract human papillomavirus than those who do not, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Reuters reports. There are more than 100 strains of HPV, some of which can cause genital warts and lead to cervical cancer in women and [...]
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U.S. women and their partners are increasingly using contraception when they have premarital sex for the first time, although about half of all pregnancies in the U.S. remain unintended because rates of unprotected sex overall are fairly high, according to the National Survey of Family Growth released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and [...]
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Health statistics “point to the urgency” of increasing use of the female condom, especially among black women, Yolanda Young, founder of the blog On Being a Black Lawyer, writes in a USA Today opinion piece…
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