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UGANDA: Condom use infrequent despite rising HIV rates

Despite nationwide efforts to increase HIV awareness and common fears of unplanned pregnancy, young, sexually active Ugandans continue to have risky sex without using condoms consistently, spurring new measures to promote the prophylaxis.

Published
21 September 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Religion and faith
Religions play positive role in African AIDS crisis

While the Western press often targets religious groups for their roles in handling the African AIDS crisis, these groups tend to play positive -- and critical -- roles in fighting the epidemic, according to sociologists.

Published
17 September 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Condoms and lubricant
Designer invents condom cover that can be opened with flick of a thumb

Embarrassing fumbles in the dark could be over thanks to a one-handed condom wrapper.

Published
12 September 2012
From
Metro
Young people
Mothers Sue California School District Over Abstinence-Only Sex Education

Two mothers are suing the Clovis Unified School District over its sex education curriculm, claiming that the Northern California district's abstinence-until-marriage teachings endanger the health of its students by omitting information about condoms and contraception.

Published
24 August 2012
From
The Advocate
Condoms and lubricant
Zambia: Addressing Challenges in Female Condom Use

The female condom has posed a lot of challenges in Zambia. Lately, it was re-designed because women complained of difficulties in using it. The female condom now on the market is said to be easy to insert and remove. According to information obtained at Marie Stopes from the last Zambia International Trade Fair in Ndola, the general use of the female condom has improved.

Published
22 August 2012
From
Times of Zambia
Sex workers
Safe sex? Indonesia's conservatives would rather 'sinners' and sex-workers got Aids

Katherine Butler reports from Jakarta, where religious intolerance is undermining the fight against Asia's fastest-growing HIV epidemic

Published
07 August 2012
From
The Independent
Condoms and lubricant
INDONESIA: Condom controversy continues

The Indonesian government’s campaign to promote condom usage among people at high risk of infection has once again been criticized by religious groups. Social stigma and sexual taboos are major obstacles in fighting HIV/AIDS in Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population.

Published
23 July 2012
From
PlusNews
Approval of Truvada to prevent HIV infections is an opportunity for gay men to consider the role condoms play in our lives

"I want the availability of PrEP to force gay men to have more honest discussions about sex and HIV and condoms. We know that it's the rare man indeed who uses a condom every time for a lifetime, from first sex act to the last — I know I haven't. We know that many gay men, single or partnered, actively choose not to use condoms — we just don't like to talk about it, aside from shaming or tsk-tsking. No matter how important or effective condoms are to prevention — and so many gay men, myself included, are alive today because of them — we can't pretend that we have just one path. We're at a point in the history of HIV where we can't avoid these conversations about the complex and independent choices gay men make when they have sex. It's time to start talking."

Published
20 July 2012
From
Metro Weekly
HIV and sex
Mark S. King: The Most Important Gay Porn Film Ever Made?

In June 2004 Dawson's 20 Load Weekend was released and was precisely as advertised. Depending on your point of view, it is either a transgressive act of eroticism or an incredibly irresponsible act that demonstrates how to become infected with HIV. Or perhaps both.

Published
12 July 2012
From
Huffington Post
Behaviour change interventions
Push to add sex education to the national curriculum

Findings of a national survey in Australia lay bare the need for sex education to be included in the national curriculum.

Published
05 July 2012
From
The Age
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