Prevention of HIV/STIs

Dramatic Decline Seen in AIDS News Coverage: Since 1990, number of newspaper articles about HIV/AIDS has dropped in richer nations

2010-12-04T02:03:00.001-08:00

Worldwide HIV-Prevention Services Lacking, Survey Finds. For most gay men, access to free condoms and lubricant, testing, counseling still limited or unavailable

2010-12-02T22:37:00.001-08:00

Abstinence-Only Classes Reduced Sexual Activity, Study Found

2010-12-02T22:36:00.001-08:00

STDs Pictures Slideshow: Facts About Sexually Transmitted Diseases

2010-11-11T05:55:00.001-08:00

so-called "test-and-treat" strategy could reduce new HIV infections by 15 percent over the next five years while conferring large survival benefits...

2010-07-13T07:10:00.000-07:00

Alcohol Use Accelerates HIV Disease Progression

2010-05-18T06:49:00.000-07:00

See this too: Alcohol enhances HIV type 1 infection in normal human oral keratinocytes by up-regulating cell-surface CXCR4 coreceptor.

and also please check this: ALCOHOL MAY INCREASE RISK OF HIV FROM ORAL SEX

Women are susceptible to HIV but scientists have been puzzled as to how it finds its way into the female reproductive tract.

2010-04-12T07:28:00.000-07:00

It is unlikely that single screening for chlamydia will prevent women developing pelvic inflammatory disease in the following year, according to...

2010-04-12T07:27:00.000-07:00

A rare parasitic disease, which normally only is transmitted by contaminated water, has been shown to be transmitted by gay sex between hiv-positive m

2009-11-30T07:12:00.000-08:00

...Not only amebiasis marches in the wake of hiv; Hung also confirmed in his Taiwanese cohort what is seen elsewhere: tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C are more virulent in combination with hiv, and more often present.

The Rio Declaration

2009-10-08T08:56:00.000-07:00

A lot of men have many sexual partners because this is what is expected of them. Masculinity is very much instilled by culture and by tradition,...

2009-10-08T08:54:00.000-07:00

ZIMBABWE: The slang of sexual networks

2009-10-08T08:37:00.000-07:00

BENIN-NIGERIA: Learning English to enter the sex industry

2009-10-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

Spin the Bottle, Sex, Lies & Alcohol

2009-10-08T08:31:00.001-07:00

Price of Pleasure, Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships

2009-10-08T08:26:00.000-07:00

Premarital Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescents in an Asian Country: Multilevel Ecological Factors

2009-07-21T00:49:00.001-07:00

Why HIV Progresses Faster In Women Than In Men With Same Viral Load

2009-07-15T22:14:00.000-07:00

Increased schooling across sub-Saharan Africa may be lowering new HIV infections among younger adults, according to sociologists, ...

2009-03-28T02:45:00.000-07:00

More than 20 percent of sexual assaults drug-facilitated

2009-03-11T09:26:00.000-07:00

Young Women May Be Drinking Heavily To Get Attention Of Opposite Sex, But Men Not Impressed

2009-03-11T09:24:00.000-07:00

How STDs Increase The Risk Of Becoming Infected With HIV

2008-12-18T23:51:00.001-08:00

Charting HIV's Rapidly Changing Journey In The Body

2008-12-18T23:50:00.000-08:00

New Way Men Can Transmit HIV To Women

2008-12-18T23:49:00.000-08:00

Reducing sexual risk with practice of periodic secondary abstinence.

2008-11-27T06:35:00.000-08:00

World AIDS Day 2008

2008-11-20T04:11:00.000-08:00

Why HIV Treatment Makes People So Susceptible To Heart Disease And Diabetes

2008-11-20T04:08:00.000-08:00

UNFPA's support to 159 developing and transition countries and territories in their efforts to empower women

2008-10-23T05:57:00.000-07:00

If you've already got an STD, an e-card can't hurt

2008-10-23T05:56:00.001-07:00

Black AIDS Institute

2008-10-17T12:07:00.000-07:00

Ashley Judd: Global AIDS Activist, The acclaimed actor reveals the surprising reasons she fights for AIDS/HIV care worldwide.

2008-10-15T06:56:00.000-07:00

Circumcision Not Associated With Reduced Risk Of HIV For Men Who Have Sex With Men

2008-10-15T06:44:00.001-07:00

Troubled Girls From Poor Neighborhoods More Likely To Have Sex In Early Adolescence

2008-09-18T07:35:00.000-07:00

HIV status and age at first marriage among women in Cameroon.

2008-08-23T23:13:00.000-07:00

New Insight On HIV Transmission Risk Of Men Who Have Sex With Men

2008-08-11T09:08:00.000-07:00

Hope: An Overlooked Tool In The Battle Against HIV/AIDS

2008-08-11T09:05:00.000-07:00

Parasitic Worm Infections Increase Susceptibility To AIDS Viruses

2008-08-07T06:18:00.000-07:00

Why Treatment Isn't Effective For HIV

2008-08-07T06:17:00.001-07:00

Rectal Gel Prevents Transmission Of AIDS-like Virus In Macaques

2008-08-07T06:16:00.001-07:00

HIV Drug Can Persist In Mothers' Milk, Increasing Risk To Them And Their Babies

2008-08-07T06:14:00.000-07:00

How 'Hidden Mutations' Contribute To HIV Drug Resistance

2008-08-04T02:51:00.001-07:00

New Male Circumcision Device For HIV Prevention

2008-08-04T02:50:00.002-07:00

Result of a meta analysis: Common Vaginal Infection May Increase Risk Of HIV Infection

2008-08-04T02:50:00.001-07:00

Meth Educational Video

2008-08-02T04:11:00.000-07:00

After the Party

2008-08-02T03:14:00.001-07:00

NIDA Director, Nora Volkow meets with 100 students for an open discussion

2008-08-02T03:12:00.000-07:00

Young People Are Intentionally Drinking And Taking Drugs For Better Sex, European Survey Finds

2008-08-01T23:51:00.000-07:00

Drug Use By Europe’s Young People Leads To Risky Sexual Behaviour

2008-08-01T23:49:00.000-07:00

New research suggests that comprehensive sex education might lead to less teen pregnancy

2008-07-27T09:32:00.001-07:00

Sex, Drugs And Dating Make Teens Feel Older

2008-07-27T09:31:00.001-07:00

Sophisticated statistical research is providing more evidence of a link between rigid parenting and increased sexual activity in older teens.

2008-07-27T09:29:00.000-07:00

Vaginal Microbicides May Prevent More Infections In Men Than Women

2008-07-13T08:17:00.000-07:00

The Safe in the City intervention consists of a 23-minute educational video that has been proven effective in reducing new STD...

2008-07-04T22:59:00.000-07:00

Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre

2008-07-04T22:57:00.000-07:00

One in four U.S. teenage girls have STD's. Nearly half the African-Americans in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected with at least...

2008-07-04T22:44:00.002-07:00

Effect of a Brief Video Intervention on Incident Infection among Patients Attending Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics

2008-07-04T22:44:00.001-07:00

Estimating how many sexually transmitted disease or infection cases occur is not a simple or straightforward task.

2008-02-26T08:05:00.001-08:00

STD Picture Cards by CDC

2008-02-26T07:56:00.000-08:00

HIV Prevention: Tenofovir Gel Safe For Daily Use By Women, New Study Suggests

2008-02-26T07:27:00.000-08:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080225090821.htm

HIV can be passed to babies in pre-chewed food

2008-02-23T07:34:00.001-08:00

Male Semen Makes HIV More Potent

2008-02-21T04:41:00.000-08:00

Semen 'may fuel cervical cancer'

2008-02-21T04:40:00.000-08:00

STD pictures

2008-02-04T04:04:00.001-08:00

The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa

2008-01-24T22:02:00.000-08:00

Bank pushes Mumbai's prostitutes to save

2007-10-26T23:28:00.000-07:00

Women and HIV/AIDS

2007-10-23T09:17:00.000-07:00

HIV Risk Perceptions and First Sexual Intercourse Among Youth in Cape Town South Africa

2007-10-08T09:47:00.000-07:00

Preconception Health Care for HIV-infected Women.

2007-09-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

Increased drug flow fuelling spread of HIV in Iran

2007-09-12T09:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.ippf.org/en/News/Intl+news/Increased+drug+flow+fuelling+spread+of+HIV+in+Iran.htm

Marriage not a barrier to catching HIV and AIDS

2007-09-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

Even Older Women At High Risk Have Little Interest In Being Tested For HIV, Study Finds

2007-08-12T23:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070807135653.htm

Oral sex can cause throat cancer

2007-05-17T23:15:00.000-07:00

Syphilis Rate On Rise In US Gay, Bisexual Men

2007-05-01T08:25:00.001-07:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070427072305.htm

Girls Born With HIV Infection At Higher Risk For Cervical Problems

2007-05-01T08:24:00.001-07:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070427072259.htm

HIV Infection Appears To Increases The Risk Of Heart Attack.

2007-05-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070424062825.htm

JAMA Patient Page: Human Papillomavirus Infection

2007-03-04T05:26:00.000-08:00

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/912

Prevalence of HPV Infection Among Females in the United States

2007-03-04T05:04:00.000-08:00

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/813

Links about Prevention of HIV/STIs

2007-02-05T09:47:00.000-08:00

The Choice Game™ truly entertains and helps to build strong moral decision making skills for young people in an interactive computer environment.

2007-02-05T09:41:00.000-08:00

Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

2007-02-05T09:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.ashastd.org/news/news_pressreleases_CCAwarenessMonth07.cfm

San Francisco City Clinic

2007-02-05T09:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/sfcityclinic/

Talking To Your Teens : Advice from Dr. James Allen, MD, MPH

2007-02-05T09:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.iwannaknow.org/parents/talking_to_teens.html

National AIDS Trust

2007-02-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

http://www.nat.org.uk/

World AIDS Day

2007-02-05T09:26:00.002-08:00

http://www.worldaidsday.org/

AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide.

2007-02-05T09:26:00.001-08:00

http://www.avert.org/hivprevention.htm

Come Clean, Condoms Prevent Infections

2007-02-05T09:23:00.001-08:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/comeclean/

Teen source, by California Family Health Council

2007-02-05T09:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.teensource.org

UK’s leading sexual health charity

2007-02-05T09:19:00.000-08:00

http://www.fpa.org.uk/

BBC, Relationships,Sex and Sexual Health

2007-02-05T09:17:00.000-08:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/relationships/sex_and_sexual_health/

CONDOM, essential wear, by NHS, UK

2007-02-05T09:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.condomessentialwear.co.uk

Sexuality and relationship info you can trust from Planned Parenthood

2007-02-05T08:59:00.000-08:00

http://www.teenwire.com/

Sex Education Resources for Classroom Activities

2007-02-05T08:57:00.000-08:00

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/educational-resources/teaching-materials/classroom-activities.htm

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape

2007-02-05T08:53:00.000-08:00

http://www.teenpcar.com/default.asp

Childhood sexual abuse and sexual risk behavior among men and women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic.

2007-02-03T08:37:00.000-08:00

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16881780&query_hl=17&itool=pubmed_docsum

Incidence and correlates of unwanted sex in relationships of middle and late adolescent women.

2007-02-01T06:50:00.001-08:00

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16754820&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Desire for children and pregnancy risk behavior among HIV-infected men and women in Uganda.

2007-02-01T06:30:00.001-08:00

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16715343&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Transition and the HIV risk environment

2007-01-28T08:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7510/220

Women, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights

2007-01-28T07:41:00.000-08:00

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT770842004

The Social Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

2007-01-28T07:15:00.000-08:00

Very important paper about Social detrminants of HIV :

http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/1/22

Gender, work, and HIV risk: determinants of risky sexual behavior among female entertainment workers in China.

2007-01-25T01:37:00.000-08:00

...Both individual cognitive and social influence factors were important correlates of condom use; models containing either alone suffered significantly in explanatory power....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16961450&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

Sexual behaviour in Russia: who exhibits a higher risk? Evidence from longitudinal data.

2007-01-25T01:36:00.000-08:00

...Those at highest risk in Russia of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV are not in marginal or socially excluded groups but instead are part of the core economically active population....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17062181&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum