Condoms In The News 2009!

 

Below are links to articles about condoms and issues related to condoms that have been in the news recently.  The articles are intended to keep you informed: about the benefits of using condoms; about how to have a great time; and about being sexually responsible.

 
A Girl in the Clouds -
By Sam
However, in actuality, anyone who says that the distribution and use of condoms makes the global HIV/AIDS epidemic worse…is being dishonest. The reality of the Pope's lie is vile…not that someone called him out on it. ...
Premium Latex Condom Donation by IBI Synergy, Inc. Are You Looking ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Due to an overstock in Premium Brand Nonoxyl-9 (N-9) latex clear and color condoms, IBI Synergy, Inc. is looking for organizations/individuals that are ...
Tricky kink? Try this.
Detroit Metro Times - Detroit,MI,USA
Q: What is the proper condom etiquette for threesomes? In my case, I'm a guy and it would be with two girls. Do I change condoms when I go from one girl to ...
State sex ed. curriculum may get more comprehensive
Davis County Clipper - Bountiful,UT,USA
by Shalyn Roberts DAVIS COUNTY — Parents have their chance now to voice their opinion about opening up the state's sex education curriculum. ...
A nasty little Bug
City Pulse - Lansing,MI,USA
Matt Hulbert, the prevention coordinator for the Lansing Area AIDS Network, posits that younger people are not getting enough sex education. ...
Better sex ed
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
These statistics are no secret from Utah students, some of whom rightly feel cheated by sex-education classes that don't arm them with the information they ...
A “LEARNING EXPERIENCE” FOR RAMONA SCHOOL DISTRICT: SCHOOL ...
East County Magazine - La Mesa,CA,USA
Wrongly citing a school policy on sex education, the school had improperly required classmates to get parental permission to see the presentation during a ...
Straight Parent for Marriage Equality & Homosexual Education in School
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
by gad Too often, I think that the same-sex marriage debate is seen as a fight of gay couples vs. straight couples. Our fight is labeled as "gay and lesbian ...
Secret Life of an American Teenager
The Herald-Mail - Hagerstown,MD,USA
So how do teens find out the truth about sex? The Just Say Know program is a 10-week program that concentrates on teen sex education. ..
God and Abstinence: State Funding for Religious Agendas
RH Reality Check - Washington,DC,USA
Did he talk about proper use of condoms or birth control? No, but he did make the offhand and scientifically unfounded comment that condoms are "pieces of ...
Thumbs for Hire › Clothes are like condoms - always remember to ..
By admin
Clothes are like condoms - always remember to pack a spare. Here's a little tip for you – don't leave work to go to an incredibly swanky drinks reception wearing a very tight, very old jumpsuit if you're already having premonitions of ...
Best STD antidote
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Utah cases of HIV increased 32 percent from 2007 to 2008 and gonorrhea infection nearly tripled in the same period; the incidence of chlamydia increased ...
Bishop Kevin Dowling: AIDS and Condoms
America Magazine (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
Bishop Dowling has become a lightening rod for some of the more conservative factions in the church, because of his stand on the use of condoms to prevent ...
HIV in South Africa 'levels off'
BBC News - UK
The Human Sciences Research Council survey said increasing use of condoms had helped produce the drop in new infections among the young. ...
Sacramento Non-Profit Announces Plan to End All New Cases of HIV ...
OBSNews.com - Sacramento,Ca,USA
... condoms and lube each year promoting safe sex, and continuing the increase education in local schools. CARES began developing the plan in fall of 2008 ...
Got protection? Study finds pulling out effective
MSU State News - East Lansing,MI,USA
The pull-out method, often considered for those “better-than-nothing” situations, competes with condoms in effectiveness, according to a study published in ...
A lifesaving success story
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland,MD,USA
The 2.2 billion condoms that US taxpayers have supplied under the PEPFAR program haven't done the trick. But those condoms plus the billions of dollars ...
Richard Albertson: 'Success sequence' works in teaching sex education
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
In one corner is the "condoms and contraception" group that believes teenagers cannot possibly exercise any self-control regarding their emerging sexuality. ...
Letters: Dangers of sex undisclosed
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
One day students even were invited to make flowers out of red and green condoms. I was completely floored to see a university was promoting this type of sex ...
HIV challenges African-American community
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
Like sex, for example, and condoms and the importance of HIV testing. But the numbers show it's a sermon they need to hear, says Couzens, senior pastor at ...
My partner doesn't want to use condoms
Metro - London,UK
My partner has recently done away with using condoms with the excuse that they kill the moment; it's all goodbye erection and downhill from there. ...
O'Malley calls Tiller killing 'tragedy'
Boston Globe - United States
Perhaps he should realize that sex education and condoms would go a long way toward preventing unwanted pregnancy. Perhaps he might ensure that homeless ...
HIV challenges African-American community
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
Like sex, for example, and condoms and the importance of HIV testing. But the numbers show it's a sermon they need to hear, says Couzens, senior pastor at ...
AIDS rate may be 'bigger problem than we think'
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
By Kym Klass • June 5, 2009 Every week, Montgomery AIDS Outreach hands out up to 200 condoms. They give them away across the counter in brown paper bags ...
Who knew what abstinence could save?
The Palmetto Scoop - Columbia,South Carolina,USA
The Heritage Keepers® Abstinence Education program, used across the state, reports that its students initiate sex at half the rate of similar non-program ...
What Are Condoms How To Use a Condom
There are two types of condoms; male and female. A condom is a barrier contraceptive - it blocks the route a sperm would take to fertilize an egg.
CHRONICLES OF BOREDOM: So You Wanna Be ... A Condom Tester?
By crazymarieau
Cool Title: Condom Tester How, exactly, does one test condoms? Just put 'em on and see what happens? No. The main stability test involves unrolling the condom onto a specialized post and forcing air into it until it expands to 40 liters ...
New CDC director will bring strong stand on health issues
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
He supported needle exchange programs and condom distribution to help prevent AIDS, producing condoms with the city's NYC logo and the slogan “Get Some. ...
Abstinence-Only Is Consistent with the Law
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
I´ve read a lot criticism lately about abstinence-only sex education for teens. Much of it is justified. It does indeed seem futile to focus only on ...
The Return of the Hot-Button Issues
TIME - USA
At the same time, the pro‑life community should concede that sex education and the widespread availability of morning-after pills and condoms are necessary ...
Condoms and Chlamydia | Condoms and Sex Advice Blog
By Michelle
Condoms will protect you against a whole range of sexually transmitted diseases as well as preventing the chance of pregnancy. One common sexually.
Condoms and Sex Advice Blog - http://blog.jonnycondom.com/
Condoms vs. withdrawal
Metro Canda - Edmonton - Edmonton,Canada
A recent study published in the June issue of Contraception Magazine presents findings that the withdrawal method of birth control rivals the use of condoms ...
I am not a murderer and no one is "pro-life".
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
You either want contraceptives and sex education to be available to people or you do not. Those who are against contraceptives and sex education are not ...
Bringing Safety Back
Metro Weekly - USA
According to Dan O'Neill, chair of the DC Center's Gay/Bi/Trans HIV Prevention Working Group, the DC Department of Health provides 3 million condoms and ...
HIV Patient Educates Others About Disease
CBS 11 - Dallas,TX,USA
Robinson said too many women aren't taking control of their sexual lives, demanding that partners wear condoms. Sixty-nine percent of all HIV female ...
Cuban gays dance conga against homophobia
The Associated Press
... all the needs of the human being," said Mariela Castro, an outspoken gay rights advocate who directs Cuba's officially sanctioned Sex Education Center. ...
talkback — Healthy Youth Act
Q-Notes - Carolinas LGBT news source - Charlotte,NC,USA
It came down to this question: do we make some compromises to get life-saving, medically accurate, non-discriminatory sex education to thousands of students ...
Medical research Blog For the needs: Condoms
By Anaylyzer
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that "While the effect of condoms in preventing HPV infection is unknown, condom use has been associated with a lower rate of cervical cancer, an HPV-associated disease." ...
US coping with recession via chocolate, Spam, condoms
Houston Chronicle - United States
Over the final three months of 2008, condom sales rose 5 percent and Match.com reported its strongest performance in seven years. ...
Notre Dame Should Applaud Obama's Choice
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
But repeatedly, research shows that abstinence-only education leads to more teenage pregnancies not fewer. A recent study using federal data by Janet E. ...
HIV, STI diagnoses on the rise in Iowa
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA
Condoms are like pitchers of beer on a college campus -- they're everywhere. Yet statistics suggest that the availability of free condoms is not translating ...
No end to the trend
California Catholic Daily - San Diego,CA,USA
The use of condoms, in such a circumstance, is, for Bishop Dowling, first of all use as a prophylactic against death by AIDS. "The issue is to protect life. ...
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Summit looks for ways to curb District's spiraling HIV/AIDS rates
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
All churches are not going to allow condoms but they can do something. Not all churches are going to allow testing but they can do something. ...
Budget Widens Teen-Pregnancy-Prevention Efforts
Wall Street Journal - USA
By LAURA MECKLER WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's 2010 budget eliminates most federal funding for abstinence-only sex-education programs and replaces ...
Unicef report Britain has most new HIV cases in Europe.
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation - Manchester,USA
"Condoms still remain the most effective way of preventing the transmission of STIs including HIV and the LGF provides free safer sex packs for gay men ...
Family Planning Advocates CEO T. Brooks meets with DC lawmakers on ...
ReadMedia (press release) - Albany,NY,USA
She'll urge them to use former abstinence-only funding for age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education to reduce the alarming rate of unintended teen ...
SUB event supports national AIDS effort
UNM Daily Lobo - Albuquerque,NM,USA
"In between in that continuum are people who have multiple sex partners, (who) sometimes use condoms and sometimes don't use condoms, and may not always ...
Sex education can help save lives
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Sex education can save lives. Helping young and not-so-young people to explore their sexuality in positive ways can spare everyone enormous heartbreak. ...
5 measures to prevent stis
Fijivillage - Suva,Fiji
From July to December 2008, a total of 536 STI cases were seen by the Adolescent Centre alone which included cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia.
A voice for the students
The Roundup - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
We provide healthcare, free condoms... Why can't we provide some type of program to feed the students?” Simms, who makes no promises, plans to propose an ...
Program puts spotlight on teen sex
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
But many teens, she said, don't know how to use condoms properly. Kraus asked the group if a 15-year-old could be in a healthy sexual relationship. ...
Nurse-run sex ed course teaches abstinence
News Dispatch - Michigan City,IN,USA
It is abstinence-based sex education, the only kind the state permits in the state's classrooms. In this area, it is taught in public and parochial schools. ...
Same Data, Conflicting Forecasts
New York Times - United States
Condoms. And alcohol.” In between jokes, she says the deleveraging of America is going to be a painful process. Finally, the former St. Louis Federal ...
When the Cellphone Teaches Sex Education
New York Times - United States
Sex education in the classroom, say many epidemiologists and public health experts, is often ineffective or just insufficient. In many areas of the country, ...
EDITORIAL: Tanzanians must break silence to contain AIDS
ThisDay - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
This powerlessness is considered one factor that minimizes the use of condoms as a means of protection against HIV/AIDS and sexually-transmitted diseases. ...
New AIDS chief
World Magazine - Asheville,NC,USA
Goosby faces pressure to alter the program—groups like International Women's Health Coalition say abstinence education is ineffective, and condoms should be ...
Youth Pride welcomes the young with rays and rhythms
Metro Weekly - USA
Another highlight was the Latino-infused dancing by an unnamed group who incorporated condoms into their flashy costumes. ''We wanted to do something that ...
Student leaders call for more sex education
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA
by AP JUNEAU, Alaska -- Alaska high school student leaders say they want to be provided with more sex education. The Alaska Association of Student ...
Sex education can stop abuse
guardian.co.uk - UK
It's hardly a shock to hear about people reaching for their torches at the suggestion of sex education in primary education. Alarmists tend to anticipate ...
Senate panel OKs sex ed, anti-bullying bills
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
By AP RALEIGH (AP) — A Senate panel has approved separate bills telling North Carolina public schools to change how they teach sex education and to adopt ...
Sex Education review could mean gay students lose out
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation - Manchester,USA
A new government commissioned review of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) published yesterday, will require schools to teach sex education from ...
Sex Ed Curriculum Includes Education About Gays, Roils Brits
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
by Kilian Melloy In the UK, advocates of comprehensive sex education stand behind a plan to equip students with information that may help them make choices ...
Health checkup: Sex education for seniors
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
Older adults are one-sixth as likely as younger adults to use condoms. Sixty percent of older women admit to having unprotected sex. ...
Is a Facebook romance real or fantasy?
msnbc.com - USA
I never asked Jeff to use condoms, mostly because planning to have sex felt a bit like planning my own exile. Not to mention buying condoms in my town would ...
Regular screenings encouraged for sexually transmitted infections
Miller County Liberal (subscription) - Colquitt,GA,USA
HOUSTON - When it comes to sexually transmitted infections, experts at Baylor College of Medicine tout the ABCs - Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. ...
Welfare Officer review: Finger Pointing
University Observer Online - Dublin,Ireland
Indeed, when asked if he fought to install condom machines in the on-campus residences as his manifesto promised he simply stated “we weren't allowed. ...
This Week In History...
Daily Vidette - Normal,IL,USA
His recommendation was based on a survey that showed 36 percent of students were embarrassed to buy condoms and 56 percent could not get them when they ...
The gay condom debate
The George Washington University The GW Hatchet - Washington,DC,USA
The condom debate among gay men, especially in Washington, DC, where HIV cases are alarmingly high, is especially important. Gay men do not need condoms for ...
Looking for light in the fight against AIDS
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
1 by hoisting banners or passing out condoms, hoping to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and quell its spread. We remember a few childhood nights spent ...
Seat-belt logic: Where does it lead?
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
Condoms for all sexual activity involving people who aren't certain of each other's sexual histories. Saving lives has never been an adequate justification ...
More young people in El Paso contract HIV
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
What stands out to clinic directors is that many young people are not using condoms during sex. They point not only to the rise in HIV cases, ...
IU Health & Wellness
Indiana University - Bloomington,IN,USA
Rural residents in Indiana voiced strong support for public high school instruction that not only discusses the role of condoms in preventing sexually ...
Brewer mistaken to OK abstinence-only funds
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Abstinence-only sex education has done nothing to curb the teen pregnancy rate. Arizona has the second-highest teen pregnancy rate in the country. ...
Let's talk about sex
Galway Advertiser - Galway,Ireland
Providing your child with sex education is much broader than just explaining the mechanics of sexual intercourse. It involves discussions about men and ...
April 23, 2009: Sex Ed in Massachusetts
Boston Channel.com - MA, USA
Currently, the US government funds exclusively abstinence-only education. Massachusetts is one of a handful of states that has not mandated sex education in ...
Dating Tips, Relationship Advice, Intimacy and Sexuality!: Dating ...
By John B
It's best to let a prospective partner know early on that condoms are a requirement for you. If they get upset or blaming, consider dating younger men who usually are more used to condoms as a necessary fact of life. ...
Common Std Symptoms | Getallabout Health and Lifestyle Magazine
By admin
As these areas appear in places which are not covered by the condom, the condoms tend to reduce the likely hood of transmission but are not able to eliminate them completely. The small sores may heal themselves but that does not give ...
Hiv/aids and Education « thememoirs.org
By thememoirs.org
The program was also successful in increasing condom use (Fawole et al., 1999) Above mentioned studies shows that health education with HIV/AIDS prevention does change the behavior of students especially adolescents. ..
New York Urges STDS Prevention, Early Detection
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
People who are sexually active should use latex or polyurethane condoms every time they have vaginal, oral or anal sex, which will greatly reduce the risk ...
Hormone control, safe sex and marriage Rx
Detroit Free Press - United States
It's best to let a prospective partner know early on that condoms are a requirement for you. If they get upset or blaming, consider dating younger men who ...
Addressing Sexual Violence through Sexuality Education
RH Reality Check - Washington,DC,USA
The crux of the argument centers around whether to provide gender-unspecific sex education or gender-specific sex education. The goal of gender-unspecific ...
Isabella Rossellini Takes Sex Education Seriously
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
As a mother of two, Isabella takes sex education very seriously. Breaking the news about the birds and bees. "I made the decision to tell my children right ...
New HIV/AIDS Cases Increase in Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Condoms work. They prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Still, some men resist using them and the cost and availability of female condoms have made this option ...
What Every Woman Needs To Know About Condoms
Rates of STIs are soaring and condoms are your safest barrier against them. Life and Style's Sex Expert, Simone Bienne explains that safer sex is fun sex.
Doin' It With Dr. V: How To Put A Condom On With Your Mouth
The Frisky - Atlanta,Georgia,USA
And not for the usual reason—I was just pleading with you, in honor of STD Awareness Month, to always use a condom. It's saved my ass in more ways than one, ...
How Savvy Are Girls About Pregnancy and STDs?
The Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
As for condoms, most girls are oblivious to HIV and other STDs and “wrapping it before tapping it” usually goes out the window. Laura, 22, Fair Oaks, ...
Speed-dating techniques help promote sex education
Medill Reports - Chicago,IL,USA
Giselle de la Rosa, 19, a University of Illinois at Chicago student discusses her experiences at Wednesday night's speed-dating style "Who Framed Sex Ed? ...
‘Day in Trenton' will explore sex ed, child abuse
New Jersey Jewish Standard - Teaneck,NJ,USA
Young people need and deserve comprehensive sex education based on science and public health, not religious views or ideology,” said National Council of ...
Teen Insight: Chapel Hill group raises money to help battle AIDS
StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA
Between acts, information was given about coming together as a community and fighting HIV infection through truthful sex education, condoms, and abstinence. ...
Hump Day: In the end, anal sex can be pleasurable, intimate for all
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
But when practicing safe sex techniques — correctly and consistently using condoms for both vaginal and anal sex and making sure to use a more than generous ...
Lives and consequences
ASU Web Devil - Tempe,AZ,USA
“That gives us a chance on a personal one-to-one opportunity to give students the information about using condoms.” Sebastian Porchini, a finance freshman, ...
One man's fight against HIV infections among Latinos
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
Each contains three condoms, two packages of lubricant and a mint. Villeda brings the packets to the club and leaves them so men can pick them up without ...
Saved by the Belle: Bars need condom machines available to customers
LSU The Reveille - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
Every so often a patron may stumble upon a rusted condom machine in the restroom of a run-down bar, but it's most likely empty. If it's not, the chances of ...
Captain Condom helps to spread the word on STI's
Oxnard Colleges - Moorpark,CA,USA
shirt explains the proper use of a condom. Also, a man in a super hero outfit can be seen handing out condoms. This was the scenario at “Let's Talk About ...
Regular screenings encouraged for sexually transmitted infections
El Bohemio - San Francisco,CA,USA
When it comes to sexually transmitted infections, experts at Baylor College of Medicine tout the ABCs – Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. ...
Condoms - Condom Do's and Don'ts - Proper Condom Use - Using A ...
To prevent HIV, condoms must be used each and every time. But they must be used correctly. Here are the do's and don'ts of proper condom use.
Teen Sex Survey
KNWA - Fayetteville,AR,USA
One third doesn’t use condoms. “A lot of people don't want to go out and buy the condoms because they're kind of expensive,” says one local student. ...
Regular screenings encouraged for sexually transmitted infections
El Bohemio - San Francisco,CA,USA
When it comes to sexually transmitted infections, experts at Baylor College of Medicine tout the ABCs – Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. ...
Sex education goes to doc’s office as girls get 'the talk'
Houston Chronicle - United States
As Texas schools continue following an abstinence-is-best approach to sex education, Houston gynecologists say more mothers are asking them to have “the ...
Jacqueline White: A cornerstone of education
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Bullies only pick on kids they perceive as being … read more "weak" for a multitude of reasons of with only one of them is sexual orientation. ...
Legalizing Pot Makes Lots of Cents for Our Cash-Starved Government
By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
Even the most mainstream figures are now taking the idea of legalizing and taxing pot seriously -- budget-crunched governments should listen.
Remembering AIDS in America
Bi-College News - Haverford,PA,USA
Then there’s the fact that, just this past weekend, in an utterly stunning, reactionary turn of faith, Pope Benedict XVI decried the use of condoms in ...
Jesus Loves You (and Condoms)
VivirLatino - New York,NY,USA
Remember the Pope’s statements about how condoms are bad? How they are only making the AIDS epidemic worse? Well his C-level supervisor doesn’t agree. ...
Planned Parenthood and MTV launch campaign to encourage teens to ...
Examiner.com - USA
That is why it is so important that teens be encouraged to wait to have sex, but also know how to protect themselves, including using condoms and getting ...
Latest 411 on sex education
Examiner.com - USA
This underaged-baby-mama-drama is definitely heating up the sex education debate in the United States. With the right and the left arguing over the ...
New van gives boost to city's HIV outreach program
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
The workers hand out free male and female condoms and educational pamphlets on safe sex and sexually transmitted infections. The most controversial service ...
Dr. Green Is An Honorable Man
RH Reality Check - Washington,DC,USA
Dr. Green's research and his public presentations, by contrast, state that condoms are seldom used consistently and correctly in general populations and for ...
The evidence on preventing AIDS is clear
The Age - Melbourne,Australia
CARDINAL George Pell's Easter message that condoms have contributed to Africa's AIDS problem by encouraging promiscuity is not consistent with the evidence, ...
HIV/AIDS: South struggles against rising problem
Chicago Tribune - United States
"What is disturbing is that we have women who don't feel comfortable insisting that men use condoms because they are afraid he will leave and maybe he is ...
Letter: Teens need comprehensive sex ed
TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
The need for comprehensive sex education could not be more clear. Florida has rates of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV infection and teen pregnancy that ...
Education, precautions needed to stop spread of STDs
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
That reality is behind school sex education programs and certainly behind the latest outreach effort by Planned Parenthood. Sexually active people not in ...
Middle School Sex
PsychCentral.com - Boston,MA,USA
A major question is when should sex education be taught? To answer this question, Christine Markham, Ph.D, and colleagues examined sexual risk behaviors ...
New Effort to Warn of HIV Risk in US
Wall Street Journal - USA
A Web site launched Tuesday urges people to abstain from sex but to use condoms every time they have sex. The Web site also offers visitors information on ...
Let's not be complacent about AIDS - it's still killing us
Globe and Mail - Canada
Uganda managed this through a mixture of good leadership, powerful messages and provision of condoms. In southern Africa, we have yet to see any campaigns ...
Pedro’s story still relevant today
Reuters - USA
Sex-education classes are largely how-to-do-it demonstrations, and a chance for free condoms (which are, by the way, only partially effective). ...
Education can reduce STD rate, chaplain says
Brown and White - Bethlehem,PA,USA
Congress should pass the Responsible Education About Life Act, which would provide support for sex education programs that are more effective than ...
Educate youths on sex, diseases
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
If people are not going to practice abstinence, they must consider using barrier methods su ch as condoms consistently and correctly with their sexual ...
Sexual ignorance
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
Now, before that man used the golden opportunity to speak to his son about the pros and cons of sex, plus the use of condoms when the time is right, ...
Do you have a condom? - Condoms - Safer Sex
If you're planning on having sex, or are the sort of person who might be having sex even if they don't plan to, your answer should always be yes.
Catholic diocese bans sex-ed class in leased Perth Amboy school
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-LedgerPerth Amboy High School freshmen, who attended a human sex education class at the high school, were later were bussed back to ...
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By nultygoestopartick
Imagine if major retailers all made their own condoms and kept their slogan; Tesco condoms......every little helps Nike condoms......just do.
Root Like A Rabbit This Easter
Voxy - Wellington,New Zealand
Chuck a picture of a cute fluffy bunny on the box of condoms, have a 'buy one box get the second free' offer during Easter and hold a draw for a lucky buyer ...
Importance of sex education
UW Badger Herald - Madison,WI,USA
My guess is the parents of those students weren’t teaching them giving head can lead to HIV transmission or that receptive condoms are great for anal sex. ...
Sex education best when comprehensive
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
Theresa King writes in her letter (“On sex education,” April 3) that she opposes comprehensive sex education because she is afraid it will lead to young ...
A sexy statement
ASU Web Devil - Tempe,AZ,USA
Members of ASU Advocates for Sexual Health attempt to drape a 12-foot wide fabric “condom” over the Hayden Library spire on Hayden Lawn on Tuesday morning ...
Abstinence-only Programs Hobble PEPFAR
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
In 2008, when Congress reauthorized PEPFAR, it increased the number of focus countries and upped the funding to $48 billion for the next five years. ...
Hands off My Pills: OC Planned Parenthood Loses Funding
New University Online - CA,USA
The Birth Choice Web site states that the risk of becoming pregnant using condoms only is about a 20 percent chance in a year. In fact, the number, ...
Female Impersonator: Safe sex - it's not just the kids doing it ...
By lindsay
Another place that demonstrates the need for sex education and dispensing of condoms is nursing homes. For a lot of the reasons above, women and men in nursing homes need to be aware of safe sex, especially since aging bodies are often ...
BEYOND THE SHEETS: Explore your options
Argonaut - Moscow,ID,USA
Barriers such as condoms and dental dams are the only effective way to prevent disease transmission (except for abstinence and monogamy — after both ...
Colleges: Birth control ban is honored
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Condoms are not available on our campuses and our student health services and centers do not provide oral and other forms of contraceptives,” the joint ...
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Tough task: Designing a game about your 'first time'
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
Next would be a stop at a drug store to buy a brand of condoms that doesn't terrify you, and then going "back to his place," and grappling with adjusting ...
stds Plague Philadelphia Youth
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
“The message that kids hear more often is the comprehensive sex method, which says you can reduce the risk by condoms. In the 18 years that I’ve done this, ...
Condoms an important form of protection from HIV
World Health Organization (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
25 March 2009 -- Do condoms help in the prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission? We find out in this episode. Veronica Riemer: You’re listening to the WHO ...
AFA Silliness on Sex Ed and STDs
ScienceBlogs - USA
Never mind that study after study has shown that kids who get abstinence-only sex ed are less likely to use condoms when they have sex. ...
Health Center provides health services while honoring Jesuit ...
SJU The Hawk - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The Catholic Church has recently received heavy criticism for denouncing condoms and other contraceptives as a solution to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has ...
 
 
Giving Condoms to Your 14-Year-Old?
New York Times - United States
When the box arrived, it included a freebie: a pack of 50 candy-colored condoms. I was about to throw them away, but after an internal debate that seemed at ...
Condom confidence boosts women's sex appeal
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Myth-busting new research for the Condom Essential Wear campaign by ICM reveals that women who take control in the bedroom by demanding safe sex are more ...
Pay for the haircut; lecture on AIDS + condom come free
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Currently, over 7000 male and 400 female condoms are distributed monthly by requests in the shops and salons. With a population of just over 751000, ...
HIV-positive matchmaking brings hope in Nigeria
Africasia - London,UK
The couples are encouraged to use condoms to avoid cross transmission of different HIV strains and only have condom-free sex on days when the woman is ...
Teen Births on the Rise for Second Year in a Row
Washington Post - United States
The increase raised concerns across the ideological spectrum and fueled an intense debate over federal funding for sex education programs that focus on ...
‘US shipped 1.9bn condoms in three years’
The Punch - Lagos,Nigeria
Out of this figure, about 4704000 of the condoms were shipped to Nigeria during the period, and 1.5m delivered in 2007. These were contained in the 2008 ...
Spain, despite pope, sending condoms to Africa
International Herald Tribune - France
AP MADRID: Spain's Health Ministry says it will send one million condoms to Africa to fight AIDS. The decision comes amid controversy over remarks by Pope ...
Obama Should End All Federal Funding for Abstinence-only Education
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Should abstinence be part of any public school sex education course? Of course! Guess what? It always has been. But the absolute gall of people to impose ...
Grads of all-girls schools show stronger academic orientations ...
UC Los Angeles - Los Angeles,CA,USA
These results provide further evidence of the role of single-sex education in promoting women's academic and political engagement, confidence in math and ...
'How did we get here?'
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
Fenty and Hader said HAA would further increase the number of condoms it distributes throughout the city and would put in place AIDS prevention campaigns to ...
SXSW 2008: Daryl Wein and Richard Berkowitz on "Sex Positive"
IFC - USA
... attempting to dispel myths about how the disease was transmitted and pioneering the idea of having sex with condoms within the gay community. ...
US capital struggles to contain HIV epidemic
Reuters - USA
The city said it is one of two in the nation with a major condom distribution program, distributing 1.5 million in 2008. "We want to make condoms widely ...
Research Report on China’s Condom Market, 2009
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Condoms also effectively prevented sexually transmitted diseases. In China, the sales volume of condom was about 6.3 billion in the year of 2008 and the ...
Lower-Cost Female Condom Gets FDA Approval
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
... reauthorization legislation for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2008, Congress explicitly mentioned female and male condoms, ...
HIV/AIDS Rate in DC "Higher Than West Africa"
MSNBC - USA
Plain and simple: get tested and use condoms. A starting point should be the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which offers free HIV tests. If you're scared of needles ...
It’s Better Together
Harvard Crimson - Cambridge,MA,USA
In general, we are in favor of innovative education methods. Yet reverting to single-sex education is an ineffective and potentially harmful experiment that ...
Science and Sex Education
New York Times - United States
... policy on over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B and the wasteful federal financing of abstinence-only sex education programs. ...
Exposing the Student Body at CT Schools
MSNBC - USA
Sex Week at Yale is an entire week dedicated to sex education and fun activities. The event began in 2002 and the magazine debuted during Sex Week at Yale ...
HIV prevention enters salons, barbershops
Medill Reports - Chicago,IL,USA
A 6.5-inch lubricated sheath, the female condom has a wider girth than male condoms, said Jack Weissman, vice president of the Female Health Company. ...
Unhealthy STD rates plague Milwaukee
OnMilwaukee.com - Milwaukee,USA
"There are some trends, but in general, risk for STDs is highest among people who have multiple sex partners or who don't use condoms consistently," says ...
Rethinking sex education in schools
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
It calls for changing the way sex education is taught in schools throughout Florida. The Healthy Teens Act, sponsored by Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota, ...
Orange County and Planned Parenthood
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
This nation tried abstinence-only sex education. It didn’t work. And yet the Orange County Board of Supervisors took a serious step backward this week by ...
Residents of Norman nursing home moved after home shut down
KFOR - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
7 says — among other things — the home failed to fully investigate abuse allegations and endangered patients' health by not providing condoms to a sexually ...
HIV/AIDS in DC
Washington Post - United States
What we also know is that the right combination of evidence-based interventions, including testing, condoms, and serious decisions around relationships, ...
Single, pregnant and panicked
MSNBC - USA
Use condoms for the next seven days. And always have emergency contraception in your cabinet. “Think of Plan B like Band-Aids: You don’t buy them when you ...
What Sells in a Recession: Canned Goods and Condoms
TIME - USA
(See the top 10 food trends of 2008.) So what's outperforming on the shelves? A catch-all category called "seasonal general merchandise," which contains ...
Let's talk about sex
Chicago Journal - Oak Park,IL,USA
But all five students interviewed for this story reported little, if any, discussion of condoms in their classrooms. "Teachers don't want to teach it, ...
Condoms - Condoms | AIDS Buddy
By admin
CondomsThe following lists 23 reason given for not wanting to use a condom, and possible responses. Reason: I don't use condoms. Answer: OK. Then let's think of.
Our opinion: Solutions lie with parents
Leader Vindicator - DuBois,PA,USA
On Sunday, we took an anecdotal look at the effectiveness of sex education courses in school, as recalled by ex-students who are now adults. ..
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When It Doesn't Smell Like Cupcakes and Roses - TMI!
LimeLife - Menlo Park,CA,USA
However, if you're putting your condoms to good use and still smelling a funky, fishy or foul smell, best to see your gyno. ...
Craigslist and condoms
Examiner.com - USA
February was officially National Condom Awareness month- but it needs to be a constant awareness. Craigslist started out great with a quick way to list some ...
Carrying condoms a spring break must
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
First and foremost, have condoms available to you at all times. This means you have to actually carry them around with you. It’s really simple: Take a ...
Kelly used on condom packs
The Sun - London,UK
By CARA LEE CONDOM makers in China are cashing in on Kelly Brook’s gorgeous looks to promote safe sex across Asia. A photo of the 29-year-old looking sultry ...
Often ‘the talk’ comes a little too late
UNLV The Rebel Yell - Las Vegas,NV,USA
There are some things that you just never want your parents to do - buying condoms for you is probably one of them. We can learn an important lesson from ...
Slutty Girls and Stupid Boys: Today's Abstinence-Only "Education"
RH Reality Check - Washington,DC,USA
One of the common themes that you'll find in abstinence-only sex education curricula (besides factual errors, conservative ideology and demonization of ...
Pick Me Up a Three-Pack When You Go Out, Dear: Ann Taypor, Wal ...
GuruFocus.com - Plano,TX,USA
But SSL’s real winner in these troubled times is their Durex condoms line. As per Chief Executive Officer Garry Watts, SSL intends on using the downturn to ...
Planned parenthood, church team up on sex ed for teens
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
Throughout the evening, Rashti never mentioned abortion and made only passing reference to condoms. But she made clear there are a variety of options for ...
Illinois House Panel Approves Measure To Allow Prison Inmates To ...
By std
The Illinois House Human Services Committee on Thursday voted 4-3 to approve a bill (HB 0419) that would allow prison inmates to purchase condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, the.
Continuing leadership in world AIDS fight
Boston Globe - United States
The $15 billion, five-year initiative had the bold goals of treating 2 million people living with AIDS and preventing 7 million new infections by 2008. ...
Texas school students need comprehensive sex education
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
The most widespread misstatements center on the effectiveness of condoms. As the authors note, the examples of inaccurate information about condoms "share a ...
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ASB DC! | College: Living, Laughing and Learning
By jeanxiao
There, I met Tafari, a transgender worker who led us through the neighborhood where we did some outreach by handing out condoms and promoting the HIV testing and needle exchange that was going on in the needle exchange van. ...
WETZSTEIN: Teen virgins possible
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
But "it may be important and useful to have both pledge programs and comprehensive sex education available to provide the most appropriate intervention for ...
Serosorting raises the risk of STIs and HIV for German gay men
Aidsmap - UK
Serosorting was also associated with a five times greater risk of a recent HIV diagnosis than using condoms and/or monogamy as a strategy, and was even more ...
Sex Week: Facebook Spreads the Love, and the Condoms
LAist - Los Angeles,CA,USA
After all you've learned about sex this week here at LAist, it would be such a shame if you forgot a condom at the last minute. But not to worry - Planned ...
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Teens Have 70% Of STDs Locally, Statistics Show
"We talk about condoms. We do not demonstrate condoms. We talk about the effectiveness of condoms." Lawmakers have filed a bill this year that doesn't put so much emphasis on abstinence education. It says teachers should present ...
Sex Education on Campus | KXNet.com North Dakota News
KXMC - Minot,ND,USA
Condoms are available free of charge to residence students, but the students we spoke with say they weren't aware of it. "Were you aware that condoms were ...
Sex education proved its worth
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
Sex education has lowered the disease rate, the pregnancy rate and the abortion rate. This is indisputable. Jesus was about love and forgiveness. ...
February designated Condom Awareness Month
Indiana Daily Student - USA
By Ashley Bornancin | IDS February is often considered the month of love, flowers, chocolate-covered strawberries, candy – and condoms? ...
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Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great
Daily Nexus - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
First and foremost, he equated carrying condoms “just in case” with having an extramarital affair. Really, Steven? If he has ever actually come to one of ...
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Protect yourself, STIs can happen to you, too
Binghamton University Pipe Dream - NY, USA
Condoms are effective if they are used consistently and correctly each time you have sex.” It is better to use a single condom than two or more at the same ...
Elektra Wyatt passes out condoms at Pink 4 Love
Netherlands Antilles Daily Herald - Philipsburg,Saint Maarten,Netherlands Antilles
Several hundred people attending the annual Pink 4 Love party at Bliss received condoms and safe-sex information pamphlets cautioning them about the need ...
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Month Focuses on Safer Sex Awareness
Henderson State University Oracle - Arkadelphia,AR,USA
Condoms will break 8% of the time and slip off 7% of the time. "From May through August 2008 in the Arkadelphia city limits, there were eight new cases of ...
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STDs Increasing In Bay Area, Particularly Among Teens
MSNBC - USA
In addition to giving more information in middle school, Hughes believes condoms should be available in high school nurses offices. ...
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Women Have Boobs -- Get Over It
By Samara Ginsberg, RH Reality Check
Mine are really big -- and they're a burden. They come with the label "airhead" and "slut." Will we ever end our collective obsession with boobs? Read more »
Bonobo Sex and 'Ladyboners': Is Women's Desire Really that Confusing?
By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee
Current research seems to consider men's arousal to be straightforward, while women's is presented as weird and abnormal. Read more »
Purging the Religious Right's Sexual Demons
By Lara Riscol, RH Reality Check
We've spend years being bludgeoned by zealots wielding sex as a weapon to divide America. Is it time for a new sexual revolution? Read more »
Why Using Sex Toys, Watching Porn, and Going Green Is an Easy Fit
By Liz Langley, AlterNet
From pedal-powered sex toy delivery services to recycling vibrators, the adult industry has actually made going green sexy. Read more »
AIDS activist puts focus on education
The Daily News - Batavia,NY,USA
Wilber said people need to overcome their discomfort in talking about and asking questions about sex and commit to acquiring the knowledge to prevent ...
Let's get it on--the condom, that is
Scientific American - USA
Latex condoms, used correctly, can prevent HIV transmission 80 percent to 95 percent of the time, according to a 2008 review in Sexual Health. ...
Legionnaire’s Discovery, Rising Condom Sales and Another Multiple ...
New York Times - United States
Sales of condoms increased 5 percent during the last quarter of 2008, compared to the last quarter of 2007, according to the Nielsen Co. ...
Education barrier on STIs persists
NYU Washington Square News - New York,NY,USA
“Even if you use a condom, condoms aren’t 100-percent effective. The only way to find out is to get tested and get tested on a regular basis if you’re ...
When STDs lead to infertility
CNN - USA
"We used condoms at first. Then, me being naïve, we stopped," Rose recalled. "I thought he was only having sex with me." The STDs went untreated and ...
Young Black Men Unaware of HIV Risks, Survey Finds
New York Times - United States
... education and intervention strategies. “We need to make sure that HIV infection does not become a rite of passage for young black men who have sex with ...
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
The UCSD Guardian Online - San Diego,CA,USA
In 2008 alone, Student Health distributed about 15000 free condoms — 10000 in clinics and outreach and 5000 at Student Health Advocates’ annual events. ...
Safety Kisses
The Roundup - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
Nurse Practitioner Debbie Sargent (right) and her assistant Julie Fassett (not shown) passes out chocolate Kisses, squeezeable hearts and condoms to ...
Don't let VD stand for venereal disease this Valentine's Day
Gateway - Omaha,NE,USA
"I am asked quite often why condoms should be worn during oral sex," Young said. "For this, I offer four words of warning: gonorrhea of the mouth. ...
Maria: ‘Condoms for carnival’ creative way to spread awareness
Netherlands Antilles Daily Herald - Philipsburg,Saint Maarten,Netherlands Antilles
PHILIPSBURG--The move by the HIV/AIDS Programme Management Team (PMT) to make available 10000 condoms to designers to explore their inventiveness in costume ...
Ex-Surgeon General: lack of sex ed "akin to child abuse"
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com - Jersey City,NJ,USA
... general is still sharing her own fiery brand of straight talk, this time by likening the lack of sex education in the United States to child abuse. ...
Prison condom program reports no major problems
TheReporter.com - Vacaville,CA,USA
Arnold Schwarzenegger approved the creation of one-year Prisoner Condom Access Pilot Program at California State Prison, Solano, in Vacaville, ...
STIs risk factors for black and ethnic young people in London explored
Aidsmap - UK
Women, for example, agreed not to use condoms in what they thought were mutually monogamous relationships. They were unaware of their partner’s other ...
Don’t forget condoms on Valentine’s Day
The Exponent - West Lafayette,IN,USA
February is National Condom Awareness month, and Planned Parenthood of Indiana is reminding Hoosiers that condoms are available for a small fee or sometimes ...
More single men make the cut
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
"It's hard enough to take care of myself, let alone a kid," says Youngman, adding that he still uses condoms to protect against sexually transmitted ...
Church & Dwight Co. Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Condoms, two things. We have what we call the condom card. One of the biggest issue with condom usage as people say I didn’t have a condom on me, ...
SF saw 'dramatic' syphilis rise in '08
Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco,CA,USA
Health officials believe the reason lies in many positive men opting to serosort, or only have sex with other positive men, and therefore not using condoms, ...
City says data show need to revamp sex ed
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators last night proposed moving from an "abstinence-only" sex education curriculum ...
Sex education to suit everyone
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville,NC,USA
Under a new proposal, parents would get to choose whether their children receive anything other than abstinence-only classes when it comes to sex education. ...
Do Condoms Work? The Truth About Condom Effectiveness - Sexual ...
By admin
All methods of contraception are used to prevent pregnancy, but condoms have the added advantage of providing protection against infection...
Abortion Still Divides, But Condoms, Sex Education Are Widely ...
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
All comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. For more information, please see our Comments FAQ. ...
With STI rates on the rise, so are sexual health resources
Tufts Daily - Medford,MA,USA
Contraception, condoms and communication are two key ingredients to practicing safe sex, especially on a college campus. Oftentimes, the college hookup ...
Teen pregnancy on rise near home
University of South Alabama News - AL,USA
On the other hand, conservative organizations say that contraceptive-focused sex education is common but the new teen birth numbers prove that it is failing ...
Woman infected with HIV refuses to give up
Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA
Rushing said she advises abstinence for single people and for even married people to use condoms. If married people do not want to use condoms, Rushing said ...
Report: Teen pregnancy less likely in SF
The San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco,California,USA
The City’s adolescents are also less likely to be sexually active — and more likely to use condoms — than others in California, according to “A Snapshot of ...
Pubs offer condoms over Valentine's Day
Illawara Mercury - Illawarra,Australia
Pub-goers at four pubs will receive free
Clarke Co. Schools Consider Sex Education
WSBtv.com - Atlanta,GA,USA
Clarke County's school board next week will consider adopting two new sex education programs. The material being considered includes information about birth ...
Condom display at mall raises eyebrows
WCBD - Charleston,SC,USA
But this one is made out of red condoms. It’s right on the front window of the Armani Exchange store at Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, California. ...
Condom message gets stronger as disease rates rise
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
EDMONTON — Today's teens and 20-somethings grew up with safer-sex slogans and celebrity-endorsed condom campaigns. They learned from parents, teachers, ...
Hump Day: All’s well that ends wet: a guide to lube and its uses
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
In Joannides’ chapter on lube, he writes, “You probably want to add lube if you use condoms, no matter how wet she gets.” I realized that the problem wasn’t ...
Health before ideology
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
And although Bush supported a laudable program to provide AIDS treatment in Africa, he spent more money there promoting marital fidelity than condoms, ...
Anniversary continues debate: Sexual education programs need reform
The Student Printz - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
While the government should be applauded for its efforts in the sex-ed department, bolder steps should now be taken to further reduce the need for abortions ...
Rise in syphilis, clamydia rates concern health officials
The Daily Toreador (registration) - Lubbock,TX,USA
According to Lubbock Health Department's 2008 data, 515 people between the ages of 15 and 19 and 560 people between the ages of 20 and 24 were diagnosed ...
STDs in Detroit are up despite prevention efforts...why?
Examiner.com - USA
Prevention of these STDs is simple - use condoms with each and every oral, vaginal, or rectal sexual encounter. While condoms are not 100% effective, ...
Clap On! See Where San Francisco Stands in ...
SF Weekly Blogs - San Francisco,CA,USA
The lesson -- as always -- involves condoms and whatnot. And if ever in a city starting with an "M," bring your own. Theirs are no good, apparently.
Where AIDS Efforts Are Often Praised, Prison for Counselors Is a ...
New York Times - United States
Their group, AIDES Senegal, gave condoms and counseling to gay men. Human Rights Watch said the men were beaten in detention. ...
After Hookups, E-Cards That Warn, ‘Get Checked’
New York Times - United States
In response, public health officials have been exploring ways to harness the online world for conducting safe-sex education and preventing the spread of ...
State ranks 9th in chlamydia rate
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
Condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can reduce the risk of transmission of STDs. The CDC recommends yearly chlamydia testing of all sexually ...
The National Mall goes retail
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
There was even one enterprising group selling inaugural-commemorative condoms. It wasn’t just the Obama mania paraphernalia. The hottest items — literally ...
Some Women Need Vibrators to Get Off. Get Over It, Men.
Village Voice - New York,NY,USA
What do I say to get him to use condoms? I don't want to drive him off, because he's really hot. But I don't want to be unsafe or get HIV or even have anal ...
LLAMA SUTRA: Sex toys and STIs
The Llama Ledger - Great Barrington,MA,USA
Toys can be kept clean with condoms or rinsed in warm water with antibacterial soap. If electronic, this rinse should be done carefully. ...
Healthy Living: Young and old at risk for HIV infection
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
Betty was past menopause, so she wasn't worried about getting pregnant or using condoms. Recently, their family doctor suggested that the couple get tested ...
Lose your Job, Gain a Life
New America Media - Los Angeles,CA,USA
In December 2006, for example, the company sold $18 million worth of condoms in the United States. In November 2008, the last date for which sale figures ...
Condom Caper Attacks
NBC Philadelphia - Philadelphia,PA,USA
And not wearing a condom could cost you a whole lot more. But, one Delaware woman thinks she shouldn’t have to pay a dime for a safe, fun time. ...
HIV and unprotected sex
guardian.co.uk - UK
Condoms, dental dams (for oral sex) and latex gloves are all examples of barriers used to prevent the spread of HIV. The risk of becoming infected with HIV ...
10 Reasons Why Condoms Are The Best Contraceptive | Finding The ...
There are numerous contraceptive methods that you and your partner can use. Popular approaches include everything from pills to injections to implants. Perhaps.
Using a condom properly
guardian.co.uk - UK
It's important to use condoms correctly. If you don't, they may not protect you against pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection. ...
Virginity pledges don't do the job, says new study
Medill Reports - Chicago,IL,USA
Rosenbaum says the study’s findings prove that sex education has to change to protect teens and young adults. “In my family sex was never really discussed,” ...
Obamarama Sweeps The Globe
Same Same - Sydney,NSW,Australia
President Obama has also vowed to promote AIDS prevention, including through sex education and contraception, and bringing an end to the Bush policy of only ...
Let's talk about sex, baby!
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Plus, there is ample research suggesting that early sex education can help to delay the age of first intercourse and early pregnancy. ...
Life changes: Rising number of teens face parenthood
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Valenzuela has talked with some who blamed failed condoms but had not used backup contraception. Others thought they couldn't get pregnant the first time ...
STDs in Detroit are up despite prevention efforts...why?
Examiner.com - USA
Prevention of these STDs is simple - use condoms with each and every oral, vaginal, or rectal sexual encounter. While condoms are not 100% effective, ...
Educators worry about teen sexual activity, pregnancy
Times Daily - Florence,AL,USA
Alabama's state curriculum board adopted an abstinence-based sex education curricula that's taught in all public schools. But with sexual activity and teen ...
Evidence-based sex ed
Baltimore Sun - United States
Moreover, 83 percent of sexually active participants used condoms, versus 61 percent in the comparison group. This program is recognized by the Centers for ...
Schools Focus Sex Education on Syphilis
Wheeling News Register - Wheeling,WV,USA
Nardone said sex education includes information about practicing safe sex, STDs, HIV/AIDS and abstinence. Classes do not include teaching students how to ...
Unwanted pregnancy plan
Denver Daily News - Denver,CO,USA
Ensure that sex education classes in schools be medically accurate and include information about both the health benefits and failure rates of contraception ...
"Inflammatory" Sex Ed Emails Go To Fremont Parents
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
"I feel that this email was written to scare parents so they would write to their school board members so that sex education will not happen in Fremont ...
Peer Education students promote healthy lifestyle choices
Daily Vidette - Normal,IL,USA
Immediately, a variety of bins filled with multi-colored condoms caught my eye. "Three for free, three for free," yelled the two students inside the gazebo ...
Sebastian: Clamidya is leading STD
A & T Register - Greensboro,NC,USA
Sebastian encourages the use of condoms, communicating with partners and also offers counseling. Also if a student receives a positive test, ...
Bush Administration Releases Fifth Annual PEPFAR Report
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
Although critics assert the program has overemphasized abstinence for HIV prevention, PEPFAR has provided more than 2.2 billion condoms worldwide, ...
Teen pregnancy crisis fix
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
A Scripps-Howard poll shows that 90 percent of Texas parents favor teaching public school students age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education. ...
Another Tidbit on Sex Ed
Voice of San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
Time flies when you are talking about sex education: I had to trim down my interview with Marge Kleinsmith-Hildebrand, who oversees sex education programs ...
Aussie 'hit and miss' with safe sex
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Half of those who say condoms were their primary form of contraception admit to not using them every time they had sex, according to a study. ..

New York Initiative Uses Mobile HIV Testing to Raise Awareness
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
Morris, whose clinic administered 10000 HIV tests in 2008, said people "worry someone might think they are involved in risky behavior" if they take an HIV ...

Put Heading Here
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
let me quickly handicap the candidates: (1) I like the idea that “sex” is understood to include condoms and that sex without condoms — bareback sex — needs ...
Healthy Living: Young and old at risk for HIV infection
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
Betty was past menopause, so she wasn't worried about getting pregnant or using condoms. Recently, their family doctor suggested that the couple get tested ...
Officials in Dallas County, Texas, Lift Condom Distribution Ban
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
In a 3-2 vote on Tuesday, the Commissioners Court in Dallas County, Texas, lifted a 13-year-old ban on condom distribution, authorizing the county health ...
Congress should cut out sex/Abstinence-only programs are costly ...
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
She found that young people who took "virginity pledges" were just as likely as their peers to have premarital sex, but they were less likely to use condoms ...
Teen Births On The Rise Across South
Fort Smith Times Record - Fort Smith,AR,USA
For the foreseeable future, pro-abstinence-only advocates will continue to pillory and be pilloried by the pro-condoms-on-the-countertop forces. ...
Foster expects condom ban to be repeale
Dallas Voice - Dallas,TX,USA
Mayfield’s plan would allow health department workers to distribute condoms only to “high-risk” individuals who had already been identified as having HIV or ...
Daly City school may offer condoms to students
Tri Valley Herald - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
Those numbers and other concerns have prompted district leaders to consider a pilot program that would make condoms available at Thornton. ...
Arrested for condoms? GACC to the rescue!
Feministing - New York,NY,USA
Last semester, Northern Kentucky University student Dennis Chaney was literally arrested for trying to distribute free condoms to students. ...
Rick Warren and the great condom dilemma
Beliefnet.com - New York,NY,USA
Specifically, he writes, Uganda had been a great success story as a result of their "ABC" program (Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms). ...
The Problem With Promise Rings, Virginity Pledges and Purity Balls
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
... but are also significantly less likely to use condoms or other forms of protection. As reporter Rob Stein noted in the December 29, 2008 issue of the ...
Condom Burnings and Anti-Gay Witch Hunts: How Rick Warren Is ...
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
But how does burning condoms save lives? Once hailed by Time magazine as "America's Pastor," California megachurch leader and best-selling author of The ...
Economy Goes Bust, Condom Sales Boom
YourTango - New York,NY,USA
Prediction 2: Society will douse themselves in debauchery and spend their unemployment checks on vibrating condoms and sour apple body lube. ..
Mississippi, A Hotbed of Abstinence Education, Now Boasts Highest ...
Think Progress - Washington,DC,USA
... method must be included and “in no case shall the instruction or program include any demonstration of how condoms or other contraceptives are applied. ...
Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
Overall in 2006, teen pregnancy increased, a statistic some experts blame on abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms ...
Always Fun Time: CONDOMS
By Alwaysfuntime
A very proper man started going into the neighbourhood drug store every week and buying 2 dozen boxes of condoms. Week after week, he would come in with the same order. One day, the druggist felt he had to say something to the man. ...
Condom Use Among HIV Positive People
Dr. David Wilson from NCHECR states, “If the Swiss Commission’s conclusions were adopted at a community level and resulted in reduced condom use it would be likely to lead to substantial increases in infection.” ..
Study Finds 'Virginity Pledges' Do Not Affect Likelihood Of ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Rosenbaum called the difference in the use of condoms or other birth control methods between the two groups "quite striking. ...
Grant to help town, schools combat teen pregnancy, STDs
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
The Board of Health has distributed condoms since June 2008 with support from the AIDS Action Coalition, which has been successfully advertised through ...
Online Soap Opera Fights HIV, AIDS
WLWT - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... the National Library of Medicine, according to the project's Web site, where the videos can be found. The site includes information on how to use condoms.
WETZSTEIN: Let's get real on teen sex
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
The only thing virginity pledgers did differently from the other group was "have unprotected sex" - ie, not use birth control or condoms when they started ...
One thing is true about New Year's health resolutions:
Washington Post - United States
If people would just quit junk food and smoking, wear seat belts and use condoms, a good chunk of the medical industry would find itself out of work. ...
Safe Sex: Coming To A Cell Phone Near You!
The Frisky - Atlanta,Georgia,USA
So, she has labored for grants to normalize condom use by sending girls text messages. More, after the jump… Using a smattering of 250 women, some members ...
Cashing In On The Obama Inauguration
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
... Lewis Black gave it a shout-out on "The Daily Show" recently. With more than 100000 Obama condoms already sold, it may well be the item of the year.
Growing coalition taking on teen pregnancy
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
It's not that Texas schools can't teach students about condoms or contraceptives — they can. However, the alliance wants to make such instruction mandatory ...
Sex sales up, STD rates up
Fox 28 - South Bend,IN,USA
Condoms and other sex industry items tend to sale more throughout the holiday season, but Miller says this year has been better than ever before. ...