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Debunking the Down Low?

There was a great story on NPR last week that was designed to debunk the popular belief that the down low is a major contributor to the HIV epidemic among African American women. The reasoning didn't come as much of surprise to me, but I was really fascinated to hear some of Dr. Kevin Fenton's id...

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About.co...Diseases — 4 days ago

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Condoms : On the Rise

An ongoing series of British surveys have found that the use of condoms by British women has been steadily increasing over time. In 2009, for the first time, they were used by similar numbers of women as were using the birth control pill. Although I think that the rise in the number of women who ...

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About.co...Diseases — 7 days ago

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Care More

Want to know what has been pinging my radar lately? The fact that so many people have bad experiences getting care for sexual health. The first thing that brought it to mind was a conversation with a woman who utterly refused to get a Pap smear because she equated it to sexual assault, but it jus...

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About.co...Diseases — October 30

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Barrier Barriers

A research group at the Kinsey institute was recently awarded a grant to study barriers to condom use among college age men. I think that this sounds like an absolutely fascinating study, since it focuses both on men's intellectual experience with condoms and their physical reactions to condom us...

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About.co...Diseases — October 28

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PSA: Plastic Service Announcement

I have a secret army of minions who scour the news for me and send me articles they think might be of interest. (For some unknown reason, most of said minions are Canadian. Maybe they just read more news?) They're a great resource for staying on top of STD news I might otherwise have missed, and ...

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About.co...Diseases — October 25

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A Different Caliber Shot

On October 16, in addition to approving Gardasil for boys, the FDA approved an alternative HPV vaccine, Cervarix, for young women between the ages of 10 and 25 (Press Release). Cervarix, which has been available overseas for some time, is designed to protect against the two most common cancer-cau...

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About.co...Diseases — October 22