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Contraceptive Use Helps Reduce Rate of US Teen Pregnancy

...ontraceptives, using more effective methods (e.g., condoms and birth control pills) and using multiple method... availability and use of modern contraceptives and condoms have led to remarkable declines in teen pregnancy," said Dr. Santelli. "If most of the progress in r...

Microbicides, Need of the Hour, to Aid the Fight Against HIV

...for many sex workers, who despite stocking up with condoms are unable to persuade many a recalcitrant customer to use protection. This callousness is present despite the awareness about AIDS in India, which has touched the five million mark. Sex workers have often wished for a female condom, or any protec...

WHO Alerts Governments to Step Up Action to Curb AIDS

...on of stigmatization, testing, better marketing of condoms and promotion of voluntary counseling therapy is being promoted by WHO. MST...

Gays in China Urged to Use Condoms Regularly

The usage of condoms among the gay population will be promoted signific...ey aim to ensure that at least 70% of all gays use condoms at the time of sexual contact. At present, surveys have shown that only 20% of homosexuals actually ...

Free HIV Treatment to Be Launched for Children

...ning to set up distribution of free and subsidised condoms through vending machines installed at strategic locations like truck hubs and red light area. "So far we have installed 13,000 condom-vending machines and plan to add 12,000 more by 2006-07 fiscal end (March 31). By 2007 end we hope to have in pla...

Measures to Prevent HIV in Railway Employees

... rallies. Distribution of educational material and condoms are being performed in coordination with respective State AIDS Control Societies and Mumbai district AIDS control Society. · Universal work precaution at work place – Guidelines are being followed. Staff trained in the same and periodic re-training...

Alarming Rise in HIV Cases in China: Report

... of prostitutes in certain areas insisted on using condoms during intercourse and about half of the drug abusers surveyed still shared needles while taking intravenous drugs. Statistics showed that in some areas the infection rate among gay men was 1 to 4 percent. The report did not give further details. ...

India warned of Impending AIDS Disaster

...f its prostitutes to insist on their clients using condoms if the number of new infections each year is to dr...failure to convince many more of the importance of condoms as well as their repeatedly delayed efforts to get ever more people with AIDS on life-prolonging ant...

Government Initiates A Program To Curb HIV

...bas and other such places for promoting the use of condoms among the public," – He added. While acknowledging the role of organisations, Mr. Anbumani said that a community-based approach to tackle the issue is required and the current challenge is on solving the issue of ‘converting awareness to a structur...

US Experts Necessitated On An Action Plan To Curb AIDS In Blacks

...tions from the experts included programs like free condoms availability to inmates in prisons, urging routine HIV tests for inmates upon entry and release, injection drug prevention programs to affordable housing, expanding HIV prevention education programs etc. Several other groups including the Urban Leagu...

Surge of HIV Cases in Taiwan Prompts Doubling in Expenditure for HIV Prevention

...erceive themselves susceptible to AIDS rarely used condoms and occasionally shared needles. Hsieh said that discrimination, even from some health-care workers, is driving the problem underground and hindering HIV/AIDS sufferers' ability to receive medical treatment. She said, ‘Some hospitals which are not...

Cash Rewards for Meghalaya Tribes to Encourage Baby Boom

...percent. "We are motivating people against using condoms as this is indirectly slowing the population growth among our tribes," Shylla said. Source-IANS...

Risk-Taking Young Urged To Carry Condoms

...health campaign is targeting young adults to carry condoms when they are out 'on the pull'. Their focus is ma... of people in this age group are reported to carry condoms on a night out. The ￡4m campaign carries a warning of sexually transmitted infections like chlamyd...

Pope in Dilemma: To ban condoms or not

...some Catholic clergy had suggested that the use of condoms to curb HIV transmission would be the "lesser of t... that Catholic Relief Services does not distribute condoms in any of the "AIDS-plagued countries where it operates." Boulay says, "I hope that worthy organi...

CRPF To Issue Contraceptives To Fight AIDS

...erve Police Force (CRPF) has decided to distribute condoms before they leave for home.// "We have found that over 80 percent of the AIDS cases that have been reported were found in personnel who had returned from leave," said a CRPF official handling an anti-AIDS programme in the security force. The offic...

HIV/AIDS Epidemic Scare In Bhutan

...hed a three-year programme to encourage the use of condoms and voluntary testing of blood to prevent HIV from spreading. The UNAIDS estimates 500 HIV-infected people in Bhutan, a country of 600,000 people. "Ninety-four percent of the infection transmission was through unprotected sex," Tshewang Dorji, pro...

Fake Condoms Come to Light

17 packets of counterfeit condoms of Durex best-selling 'extra safe' range were seiz... and a fruity smell. According to Durex the fake condoms would not have been tested for microscopic holes, and there was a risk they might split. Durex is ...

AIDS –spreading like wildfire in Chin

...ent centers in China should make arrangements from condoms to be made available to the public. Drug rehabilitation and de addiction clinics are also being rapidly set up all across the nation to combat drug addiction and to curb the spread of AIDS/HIV infection through infected needles. MST...

Police annoyed over the AIDS lecture for China sex workers

...ce and fear is a major hindrance. Sex workers with condoms have been put behind bars for its possession. "Education can be carried out in various forms," the Beijing News quoted an unnamed Harbin police officer as saying. "But it is hard for us to accept this kind of public lecture."Prostitution has been o...

Fight against HIV taken up by Zimbabwe's Hairdressers

...V with their services of counseling and giving out condoms to their clients.// They have been recruited as pa...hey can play." Last year over half of all female condoms were distributed through the network of 700 beauty salons in low-income areas. Since 2001 the demand...

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