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Porn trade group calls for nationwide moratorium while L.A. officials investigate syphilis outbreak

A pornography trade group has called for a nationwide filming moratorium while performers are tested for syphilis and Los Angeles County public health officials investigate a possible outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.

Published
21 August 2012
From
New York Daily News
Contraception
Does injectable hormonal contraception increase the risk of HIV infection?

The 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) heard further contradictory evidence this week on whether hormonal contraceptives, especially injectable ones, raise the risk to women of acquiring

Published
27 July 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Sexually transmitted infections
Australian boys to get HPV vaccinations

Boys in Australia are to be offered a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV can cause cervical cancer, and the vaccine is already widely available to young girls, but boys can also carry and spread the virus.

Published
18 July 2012
From
Nature
UK health services
UK: 'Perverse incentive' fear over sexual health service commissioning

The open access nature of sexual health services means the local authorities which will commission them from April 2013 will have a perverse incentive not to do so well, according to a sexual health charity leader.

Published
06 July 2012
From
GP Online
Health services and systems
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
Vaginal discharge is a poor way of diagnosing STIs, with asymptomatic infections associated with an increased risk of HIV

Symptoms are a poor way of detecting discharge-causing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in women, investigators report in the 1 July edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Published
26 June 2012
By
Michael Carter
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
Sexually transmitted infections
Significant worsening of sexual health in England in 2011: gay men and young heterosexual adults had high rates of STIs

There has been a significant worsening in the sexual health of gay and other men who have sex with men in England, new surveillance data released by

Published
31 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
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