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Women who use oral contraceptives do not appear to have any increased risk of acquiring HIV, researchers said here. But, depending on the types of statistical analyses employed, there was a 37% increased risk of HIV acquisition with injected hormonal contraceptives, McCoy told MedPage Today during the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
Here’s the dirty little secret of condoms: They actually were meant to suck. In 1877, a medical study of syphilis prevention described condoms as “the least bad system, and so much the better if a condom is more likely to inspire disgust than provoke desire. The number of couplings, and consequently of cases of [infection], will thereby be reduced.” In other words, if condoms suck badly enough, maybe people will get so turned off that they won’t have sex anymore.
DENVER — A new ad campaign is getting attention across the metro area, especially with one saying on the side of an RTD bus: “I Have Riff Raff In My Hoo Hoo.”"What is, ‘I have riff-raff in my hoo hoo?’” asked 7NEWS reporter Marshall Zelinger.”It’s slang that is very — it resonates with the target group,” said Ellen Marshall, one of the masterminds behind Colorado Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy and beforeplay.org.
Daily Independent
Nigeria
July 16, 2011
The reality in recent times that there is a rapid decline in the age at menarche, that is, age at which young girls see their menstruation as well as increased schooling among girls are two key events that have prolonged the period of adolescence.
Increased schooling in particular has made teenagers less dependent on parents and family, and has postponed the age at marriage, and thereby the age of socially sanctioned sexual relations.
Yahoo Lifestyle
United Kingdom & Ireland
Could lead to global health emergency
© Irina Chirkova – Fotolia.com
July 11, 2010
An international team of scientists has discovered a new strain of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhoea that is resistant to all currently available antibiotics.
Science News
Human papillomavirus lingers for months in men, study shows
By Nathan Seppa
Web edition : Monday, February 28th, 2011
The virus notorious for causing cervical cancer in women also turns up frequently in men and can hang on unnoticed for months or even years, researchers report online March 1 in Lancet. The study solidifies earlier research indicating that human papillomavirus is highly prevalent in men and strengthens the case for vaccinating men and boys against it, the report’s authors say.
Your Canterbury
February 27, 2011
Sexual health doctors have urged the Government to vaccinate against genital warts as part of the school-based jabs programme.
Cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) have soared, with an increase of 33 per cent across the South East since 2000.
More than 400 new cases per 100,000 of the population were diagnosed in Kent in 2009.
Medway had the highest rate of the infection at 167 in 2009. Recent figures from Medway’s GUM (genitor-urinary medicine) clinic show cases of genital warts rose 36 per cent from 302 to 412 between 2004 and 2010.
SANE Vax, Inc. is Concerned about Missing Data in the Reports
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 21, 2011 – The media went wild last week announcing the report published in the Feb. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, (NEJM) was funded by the vaccine’s maker, Merck & Co., 1 stating Gardasil was 90 percent effective in older teenaged boys and young men.
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