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Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

...d body fluids putting drug users and people having unprotected sex most at risk. The virus attacks the liver and can cause liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure and death. The warning follows a study, which identified the risk of the spreading of virus among sportspeople through contaminated sweat. Re...

STIs Significantly Increase Risk of Drug-resistant HIV Transmission

... drug use, number of sexual partners, or report of unprotected intercourse, or between STIs and mutations thought to confer reduced viral fitness. The investigators state that “[in] this cohort of predominantly MSM we have demonstrated that TDR is significantly associated with the presence of an acute STI. The h...

Religiosity May Be Instrumental In Preventing The Spread Of HIV-AIDS

... non-Christians and non-religious people to report unprotected sex. Catholics also were less likely to report hig...s, and equally likely to engage less frequently in unprotected and high-risk sex. The RAND Health study is titled “Religiosity, Denominational Affiliation and S...

Plan B Pills – Unshackle

...ertilization of an egg if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sexual intercourse. The pills do not take effect if a woman is already pregnant. "Pharmacies will be responsible for ensuring that patients get their prescriptions. If an individual pharmacist will not fill a prescription, the pharmacy owner must m...

Australian State Health Official Sacked Following Poisoning Outbreak in Nursing Home

...y spread HIV among the gay community by practising unprotected sex. Officials have been accused of failing to move quickly enough to stop Neal in his tracks by detaining him early. The Australian federal Government's chief adviser on HIV, Michael Wooldridge, himself had called for the sacking of Robert Hall...

Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

...r sex. Treatment must begin within five days after unprotected sex — and sooner is better when it comes to EC. ...efinitely a last chance to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. But it is not going to have a major population impact because people will never use it enough,”...

Gay Men Put Themselves and Others at Risk by Inconsistent Condom Use

...ately 50% of sexually active gay men in the UK had unprotected anal sex in the last year, according to the result...50% of men with large numbers of partners) had had unprotected insertive anal sex with a man who was either HIV-negative or of unknown HIV status; that almost 20% ...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

... 25% increase in condom use and a 65% reduction in unprotected sex over the 6-month follow-up period, with risk reduction significantly greater for the experimental condition than for the control condition at both follow-ups. Condom use at last intercourse exceeded 95% at each follow-up for the experimental cond...

One-Third of Sexually Active Older Adults With HIV/AIDs Has Unprotected Sex

...sexually active older adults infected with HIV has unprotected sex, according to a study by Ohio University resea...hose who are using drugs – are more likely to have unprotected sex,” said graduate student Travis Lovejoy, who led the study along with Ohio University health psyc...

Condom Promotion-Crucial To HIV/AIDS Prevention

...t more than one in three HIV positive gay men have unprotected sex. The survey is due to be published in the jour...(37 percent) of HIV positive men said they had had unprotected sex with more than one partner in the past year.Over the same time period, one in five HIV negative ...

Unprotected Sex Among the Gays on the Rise

...vent// catching the disease. The risky behavior of unprotected sex is a sure way of transmitting the virus, which... infected with HIV virus and they continue to have unprotected sex. The saliva test also proved that many of the volunteers were unaware of their HIV status. Thirt...

UK Facing Major Sexual Health Crisis Among Teens

"In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, adolescent girls hav...200%, and syphilis by 2,000%. "In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, adolescent girls have a 1% chance of acquiring HIV, a 30% chance of ge...

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

... the virus excited them. Our mission is to promtoe unprotected sex as it is 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 Ne...

HIV Spreading Rapidly Among Gay Men in Hong Kong

...expert Wong Ka-hing urged people with a history of unprotected sex to have HIV tests, saying the findings suggested "rapid local HIV transmission" among gay men in the city of 6.9 million. Hong Kong recorded 91 new cases of HIV in the first quarter of 2007, bringing the total number of infections to 3,289. Twe...

Unprotected Sex Among the Gays on the Rise

...event catching the disease. The risky behavior of unprotected sex is a sure way of transmitting the virus, which... infected with HIV virus and they continue to have unprotected sex. The saliva test also proved that many of the volunteers were unaware of their HIV status. Thirt...

Man Accused of Spreading HIV Granted Bail in Australia

...rious injury after it was alleged he knowingly had unprotected sex on April 22 with a 24-year-old woman who was unaware he carried the virus. She was the only woman to make a statement to police, who allege that Kuoth had sex with other women, including two 16-year-old girls, since he became HIV-positive. Poli...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...oups say the vaccine could encourage girls to have unprotected sex. The ethical and religious groups oppose the scheme and believe girls should be taught to abstain from sex rather than go in for the vaccine. Colin Hart, the director of the Christian Institute charity, said: "It's basically a sex jab, encoura...

Singapore's HIV/AIDS Cases Rise by Record Levels in 2006

... persons who engage in high risk behaviour such as unprotected casual sex and intravenous drug abuse to test them...drome (AIDS), which is transmitted largely through unprotected sex and sharing intravenous needles. There is no cure for AIDS. It breaks down a person's immune sys...

Drink and Drugs 'fuel British Sexual Health Crisis'

...dded that alcohol "can increase the risk of having unprotected sex." It also highlighted the impact which advertising and celebrities can have from a young age, citing the "publicity and coverage of sex, drugs and excessive drinking by 'celebrities' and 'pop idols' and by characters in 'soaps,' making it an ac...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...died on a Pacific cruise, and told him she had had unprotected sex the night before. She had asked him for the morning-after pill, which he prescribed, Dr Chi said. He also told the court that in February 2001 she had asked for an HIV test following an "indiscretion". The test was negative. The court also he...

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