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Sex and the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act expands access to sexual and reproductive health services in stunning ways; it improves health care coverage for women and LGBT persons; the act does not allow insurers to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, including HIV.

Published
03 July 2012
From
Huffington Post
How transmission occurs
Bacterial vaginosis is associated with higher risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV

Previous research has shown that bacterial vaginosis can increase a women's risk of becoming infected with HIV as much as sixty percent. Our study is the first to show that the risk of transmitting HIV is also elevated.

Published
27 June 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Sexually transmitted infections
Medical body in fight to extend HPV vaccination to gay men

Including young homosexuals would reduce deaths from preventable cancers and lessen demand for costly treatments.

Published
12 June 2012
From
The Guardian
Sexually transmitted infections
Gonorrhea Growing Resistant to Drugs, WHO Warns

A sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

Published
06 June 2012
From
ABC News
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Treat the mother - save the baby

A new report suggests that paying more attention to their mothers’ health, and focusing on certain damaging but treatable diseases, could be one key to tackling neonatal mortality.

Published
21 May 2012
From
IRIN
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Plasma, cervical HIV load often discordant in 481-woman US group

Plasma and cervical viral load were discordant (one detectable, the other not) in almost half of 959 clinic visits made by HIV-positive US women. Because it reduces plasma HIV load, combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) proved the most reliable predictor of cervicovaginal shedding.

Published
09 May 2012
From
International AIDS Society
Sexually transmitted infections
HPV vaccine completion rate among girls is poor, getting worse

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly -- as much as 63 percent -- since the vaccine was approved in 2006, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.

Published
05 May 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
HIV and sex
For how long will anal health and hygiene be neglected?

“It is high time that anal health [and hygiene] comes out of the closet” said Dr Ross Cranston, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Cranston was referring to the multitude of anal health complications people practicing receptive anal intercourse are likely to be dealing with in their lives and very little quality care and products that exist to relieve them.

Published
17 April 2012
From
Citizen News Service
Cancer
Young girls more likely to report side effects after HPV vaccine

Younger girls are more likely than adult women to report side effects after receiving Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine. The side effects are non-serious and similar to those associated with other vaccines, according to a new study.

Published
04 April 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Sexually transmitted infections
Risk in UK Shigella Infections Prompts advice for men who have sex with men

An increase in cases of dysentery caused by shigella infection has been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) across the UK, according to preliminary findings from a Health Protection Agency (HPA) investigation published today (Friday) in Eurosurveillance.

Published
02 April 2012
From
Health Protection Agency press release
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