Showing posts with label Sexual Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sexual Health. Show all posts
Dec
07

South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died. Two decades later the clinic is the biggest anti-retroviral, or ARV, treatment center in the country and sees between 600 to 800 patients a day from all over southern Africa....
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Clinton Unveils PEPFAR Blueprint in Honor of World AIDS Day

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the nation's new initiative to eradicate HIV and AIDS on Thursday. Dubbed the "President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation," the initiative is focused on improving both preventative measures and treatment options. Clinton presented PEPFAR during a special news conference in the Benjamin Franklin Room...
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Hormone disorder and the Pill tied to blood clots

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have a hormone disorder called polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and who take the birth control pill have twice the risk of blood clots than do other women on the Pill, according to a new study. "For many women with PCOS, (the risks) will be small," said Dr. Christopher McCartney, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville,...
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HPV tied to throat cancers: study

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A sexually transmitted infection usually thought of in connection to cervical cancer is also tied to a five times greater risk of cancer of the vocal chords or voice box, a new report suggests. Combining the results of 55 studies from the past two decades, Chinese researchers found 28 percent of people with laryngeal cancers had cancerous tissue that tested positive for...
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Uncircumcised boys and men may face more UTIs

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infections of the kidney, bladder and urethra happen in uncircumcised baby boys at ten times the rate of circumcised boys, and over a lifetime uncircumcised men are four times more likely to experience one, according to a new analysis of past research. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are most common in boys' first year of life, and circumcision was already known to make...
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