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A School Teachers Crusade to Promote Sex Education

... lectures on sex-related topics like masturbation, condoms or homosexuality, have often left several parents complaining about her efforts to educate students about sex at an impressionable age. Behl says she is doing a social duty and trying to augment the governments efforts to spread sex-education and ...

High-risk Sexual Behavior Adolescents Attract Peers With Similar Attitudes

..., since having multiple sex partners without using condoms puts adolescents at risk for contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The researchers also constructed a measure of attitudes about the undesirable consequences of sex. These measures of sexual behavior and attitudes, from individual ...

Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions

...x education programme and the free distribution of condoms in the schools. According to a study published last week by the health ministry, last year 230,523 women were admitted to public hospitals after suffering complications from illegal abortions. Abortion is allowed in Brazil only in cases of rape, ...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...the purest form of relationship. This hangup about condoms could be destroyed only when the virus is rampant and everyone reconciles himself to that, one of the arrested has been quoted as saying. An agonising soulsearching is on in Netherlands over its permissive sex milieu. Health Minister Ab Klink calle...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...ent so far, 2,000 centers giving sex education and condoms to sex workers and clients, and 3,600 free testing centers. Indian government workers hand out condoms outside porn theaters, even though pornographic films are illegal. It created a government condom br...

South African AIDS Delegates Issue Contraception Call

...revention methods. Male circumcision and female condoms both needed to be more readily obtainable, delegat...eir HIV infections," said the archbishop. Female condoms which have been shown to prevent HIV and also put the onus of protection onto women were not as wide...

HIV and AIDS Pregnancies Considerably Reduced- South African Health Minister

...39 million male and more than three million female condoms were distributed. UNAIDS executive director Pete...hat prevents people from HIV, it is condoms,Though condoms are widely accessible and affordable they are not very popular with males in Africa as they consider...

HIV Awareness Increases as Condoms are Distributed in Gujarat Theatres Screening Porn Films

...ns against HIV/AIDS by encouraging distribution of condoms at vulnerable points . The move is paying dividends, officials say. Particularly making available condoms at theatres screening porn films in Surat has succeeded in spreading awareness of the epidemic among...

New Symptom-free STD on the Rise in US and Australia

...g blacks and four times higher among those who use condoms during sex. None of the genitalium-positive individuals had any discharge. "Many M. genitalium infections are asymptomatic, like chlamydial infections,'' principal investigator Dr. Lisa Manhart said. "However, unlike chlamydia, it is probably...

UK Facing Major Sexual Health Crisis Among Teens

...For example, there are restrictions on advertising condoms pre-watershed, and on showing a picture of a condo...o encourage a review of advertising regulations on condoms - for example, to remove the restrictions on showing condoms before 9pm (except Channel 4, which can...

India’s First ‘condom Bar’ Inaugurated by AIDS Patint

...be the country's first. The unique bar has real condoms dotting the wall that stacks liquor bottles. Besid...ke cups, T-shirts and caps highlighting the use of condoms and safe sex, the bar even has a counter that offers free condoms. It has been set up by the semi...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...st be made mandatory and 83 percent said they used condoms during sexual activity," said R. Isabel, executive director of the Madras Christian Council of Social Service (MCCSS) that conducted the survey among 200 members of the transgender community. The MCCSS, which works on issues like human trafficking...

‘Condom Bar’ to Create Awareness Among Youngstes

... that is not all. The bar will make available free condoms as well as priced ones available to clients. It will even give condoms in lieu of loose change. That this new idea is being implemented by a semi-government organisation...

Condom Promotion-Crucial To HIV/AIDS Prevention

...you the momentyou walk into it. From offering free condoms to condom-shaped beermugs, the first-of-its-kind c...he bar, CITCO managingdirector J.S. Bir says. Free condoms of a particular quality will alsobe available. Offering all kinds of alcoholic beverages, the ba...

Teenagers Do Not Heed to Sex Abstinence Talks

...e all about denying young people information about condoms and contraception," Smith said. He urged the US government to change tack and talk to young people about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases and not just about abstaining from sex. "I always say abstinence should be the first, second,...

Yogi Ram Dev Advises Youth to Exercise Self-control

...e young to 'exercise restraint' rather than go for condoms and other contraceptives. Attacking Western culture as well as fast food and aerated drinks, Ram Dev said a return to simple lifestyle would automatically bring down medical costs of people. On Saturday, a day before the camp opened, Ram Dev visi...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

...r combating HIV such as promotion and knowledge of condoms and decriminalisation of sex workers were controversial and therefore often given less priority, Justice Kirby said. 'But a lot of painful and difficult steps need to be taken, ' he stressed. There was no cure on the horizon for HIV and the exp...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

...r combating HIV such as promotion and knowledge of condoms and decriminalisation of sex workers were controversial and therefore often given less priority, Justice Kirby said. "But a lot of painful and difficult steps need to be taken, " he stressed. There was no cure on the horizon for HIV and the expan...

Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs

... ensuring that 80 percent of people have access to condoms for HIV prevention; and ensuring that all HIV-positive people living with TB have access to antiretroviral drugs and counseling. The declaration also calls for the promotion of partnerships, research and development, and strengthening oversight, e...

New York Health Department Distributes Five Million Condoms in a Month

...ributed five million no-cost condoms, or about two condoms per every man// living in the city, as part of its... contract to deliver Ansell Healthcare's Lifestyle condoms and packets of lubricants to organizations and venues in the city to help curb the spread of HIV. Th...

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