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Although Brazil has the reputation of being more sexually liberal than its Spanish-speaking neighbours, Brazilians suffer their own fears of stigma when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – the target of a new public health...
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Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight...
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Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the...
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There is a new man in South Africa,” proclaims a new ad splashed across South African media, aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist the...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Diarrhea kills 1.5 million young children a year in developing countries — more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined — but only 4 in 10 of those who need the...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her...
made popular Oct 22 2009
The first day of school was a special one last month for the 15 children from the Mai Hoa orphanage here. They are infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and...
made popular Oct 14 2009
For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent...
made popular Sep 24 2009
We are fond of brushing off human interest stories and focus most of our discussions on political oriented debates that we fast catch up with any political gossip that...
made popular Sep 23 2009
A controversial plan to make HIV testing compulsory in South Africa has been criticised by campaigners who argue it would breach patients’ human...
made popular Sep 22 2009
AIDS is a widespread disease in Africa and has devoured millions. All the countries across Africa – and across the globe as well – are struggling to control the...
made popular Sep 17 2009
As African countries still struggle to control the deadly AIDS epidemic, they are also grappling with debates over what rights and duties to give those living with the...
made popular Sep 14 2009
A tasteless advertisement featuring Adolf Hitler having sex has been condemned by HIV charities.
The steamy advert, filmed by a German charity, features the couple...
made popular Sep 8 2009
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent...
made popular Sep 5 2009
Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing, right?...
made popular Sep 3 2009
AIDS is spreading faster among Canada’s aboriginal people than in the general population, and a strong cultural stigma and links to rising drug use make the...
made popular Aug 27 2009
Under the dusty sun, the fathers of the bride and groom agreed to the marriage and this ancient Muslim tradition proceeded as it has for hundreds of years.
But unknown...
made popular Aug 20 2009
University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of “molecular condom” to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex,...
made popular Aug 11 2009
French and english scientists have discovered of a strain of HIV, they believe was passed on by gorillas to humans. The researchers who believe that the rare HIV...
made popular Aug 4 2009
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human...
made popular Aug 3 2009
South Africa launched a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers Monday, a proud moment in a nation where government denial, neglect and...
made popular Jul 21 2009
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In the past, the onus was on the woman and men didn’t have much choice in contraceptives. However, a male contraceptive jab now could be as effective at preventing...
made popular May 7 2009
I don’t think its global killer, more selective than we might pretend to think, personally I believe its continental, Africa suffering the brunt, as usual.
But...
made popular Apr 9 2009
India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million...
made popular Mar 20 2009
AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a virus that is mainly transmitted by having sex with an infected partner. HIV also is spread through...
made popular Mar 19 2009
The spread from the high-risk behavior groups to the general populace is another key indicator that HIV/AIDs in India has reached epidemic proportions. The disease is...
made popular Mar 19 2009
Teenagers arrested for juvenile offenses have a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases, so screening these teens soon after arrest may help catch many cases, a new...
made popular Aug 26 2008
Gimme More!
A well known, but a really overlooked and neglected issue this is. We fall in Love, taste the pleasures of touching different sex, and then, it becomes...
made popular May 28 2008
Could you have an STD and not know it? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Some sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea, have symptoms that are often confused...
made popular May 16 2008
The number of patients with HIV/AIDS in India are not as high as that has been transpired by official figures. A new study by Dr. Lalit Dandona and his colleagues from...
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